Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 26923d74c468afbf…

MALICIOUS

PDF

87.7 KB Created: 2021-07-16 05:31:22 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3)
MD5: 1cd37b00e0b397a307be5a759891301a SHA-1: 9b9e5bbd9af72860bb09f4df0e8c93565954a388 SHA-256: 26923d74c468afbfd9b7033b2741b079486771a7caeaaddf6cfcf58eada0aa07
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment T1204.002 Malicious Link

This PDF file was identified as malicious by a machine learning classifier and ClamAV, indicating a high likelihood of malicious intent. The heuristics reveal it functions as a link farm, with numerous URLs pointing to compromised WordPress sites, suggesting a phishing or malware distribution scheme. The presence of multiple distinct hosts and the use of 'utm_term' parameters in some URLs further support the link farm and potential SEO manipulation for malicious purposes.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9942

Heuristics 6

  • ClamAV: Pdf.Phishing.Trojan-d2568dad23a94d95-d2568dad23a94d95-10044375-0 critical CLAMAV_DETECTION
    ClamAV detected this file as malware: Pdf.Phishing.Trojan-d2568dad23a94d95-d2568dad23a94d95-10044375-0
  • PDF link farm points to compromised-WordPress upload storage medium PDF_COMPROMISED_CMS_UPLOAD_LINK_FARM
    PDF contains multiple clickable links, across many distinct hosts, whose targets are random-slug files parked in the upload directories of vulnerable WordPress form plugins (FormCraft, Super Forms). This is the hallmark of the 'free document/template' SEO phishing PDF family, which ranks for search queries and routes users into payload/redirect chains hosted on compromised sites. The PDF itself carries no exploit — the risk is the linked destinations.
  • Small PDF is a non-clustered link farm on disposable hosting medium PDF_SEO_DISPOSABLE_LINK_FARM
    Small PDF contains many clickable external PDF links spread thin across many distinct hosts (no single dominant host), corroborated by a utm_term SEO-redirector link and/or links parked on free/disposable content hosts. This is the 'free document/template' SEO phishing PDF family, which ranks for search queries and routes users into payload/redirect chains, rather than a normal document citation pattern. The PDF itself carries no exploit — the risk is the linked destinations.
  • External URI info PDF_URI
    PDF contains an external URL action
  • Object number defined twice with different bodies info PDF_DUPLICATE_OBJ_BODY_INCREMENTAL
    The same indirect object (N G) is defined more than once with different body bytes. First-wins and last-wins readers will resolve different content, which is a parser-confusion shape used by targeted PDFs. Body-only differences are common in benign incremental updates, so severity is raised only when the duplicate carries active content.
  • Embedded URL info EMBEDDED_URL
    One or more URLs were extracted from the document. The URL itself is not a detection — see the per-URL labels for which channel (macro, JS, link annotation, document body, ...) reached each URL.
    URL http://www.dadosefatos.net.br/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609e9577826a0---botojuz.pdf
    • https://www.bouwenaaneensterkwerkgeversmerk.nl/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160d887e4f3b81---pefewosirafirefigejope.pdf
    • http://baigeleather.com/userfiles/file/18139893736.pdf
    • https://kvartira-zalog.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/4df8eeef79bfb13d10bb5e237a6a1fd8/97256909297.pdf
    • https://adikketiga.com/contents//files/4947561992.pdf
    • http://manavpublicschool.org/manav/userfiles/file/fobawomimofimajamad.pdf
    • https://buddingheights.org/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607801f69e31a---jiniwirofeve.pdf
    • http://girisimcilikproje.com/resimler/files/lawagomed.pdf
    • http://eau-msu.ru/ckfinder/userfiles/files/93875410162.pdf
    • https://mytalk7.com/_UploadFile/Images/file/rufowopi.pdf
    • http://eske.hu/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160ba339588329---nijuxiki.pdf
    • https://sygimportaciones.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/uho3q83dtkg8lke3s1hhp16hvp/78709096041.pdf
    • https://universal4shipping.net/userfiles/file/31999080850.pdf
    • http://volamtuyetthe.com/userfiles/file/jawewawimaparodi.pdf
    • https://greyquotient.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/7934dca9eff2793beb6e1357fd53fd4f/xusawokezedotota.pdf
    • http://creativeindustries.ru/uploads/userfiles/file/mekedurutulolufebuwujez.pdf
    • https://www.alpha-dynamics.gr/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160b5423aaf233---13140003404.pdf
    • https://chris-arnold.com/userfiles/file/paxusexizivasidivip.pdf
    • https://lemanssrl.it/file/15262716059.pdf
    • https://www.audifonosdoshoydos.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160c8d24503e1d---zibapuxemutavi.pdf
    • https://tfnd.org/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/ed0f386c51c59203064ad05660184cd7/tujuzape.pdf
    • https://unique.global/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/998976993aef0a5c21d50569da08890f/5069186232.pdf
    • https://proff-doors.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/8d053b7028dc786a1c04b7643f2e961f/xikivawi.pdf
    • https://samsungvrvklima.com/upload/ckfinder/files/rajagizufumewadatuten.pdf
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Uplcv/~3/DOqCt-cVA4I/uplcv?utm_term=slovak+terms+of+endearment
    • http://pro.ovh.net/~tribuene/images/banque/file/marisimetol.pdf
    • http://www.w3.org/1999/02/22-rdf-syntax-ns#
    • http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/
    • http://ns.adobe.com/pdf/1.3/
    • http://ns.adobe.com/xap/1.0/
    • http://ns.adobe.com/xap/1.0/mm/
    • http://ns.adobe.com/xap/1.0/rights/
    • http://dejavu.sourceforge.net
    • http://dejavu.sourceforge.net/wiki/index.php/License

Extracted artifacts 3

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
font_00_sfnt_off0000f172.bin
9dd22a877ad2e628bac76db0f6ffd64684ba313970d472ba13c6b4499ca078ab
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF172 19492 bytes
font_01_sfnt_off000120f8.bin
9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x120F8 16792 bytes
font_02_sfnt_off0001390f.bin
d75e77726d201a7fcea854657062be204f607970c895eb4a68a9b65a110179fe
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x1390F 10656 bytes