Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 26950f8a7263d977…

MALICIOUS

PDF

108.3 KB Created: 2021-08-08 18:29:28 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-12
MD5: 94303ce8b7256e6b99ffda4350d27a78 SHA-1: bdf5cfe3eff0125d6b6d4cb4cafe0a44d71bb0f1 SHA-256: 26950f8a7263d977f36d46fac0fcbfd907f35c0b6e90d1e43295d7969e6eb5cc
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

The PDF contains numerous links, many pointing to disposable hosting and compromised CMS uploads, indicating a link farm designed to redirect users to malicious sites. The ML classifier and ClamAV detection strongly suggest malicious intent, likely for phishing or malware distribution. Although no scripts were explicitly extracted, the PDF structure and URL patterns are consistent with techniques used to host malicious content or redirect to phishing pages.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9969

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://3duct.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160ec4aaf923c1---2169496735.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://jatyn.cn/upfiles/202105/file/1620839495.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://kayapaliinsaat.net/file/vewezuzokewozudafomuj.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://dmhu.eu/uploads/uplib/file/87348612608.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.circoloaletrium.it/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160838b3b50f15---74948702223.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.acptechnologies.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160d0c6cb39d6f---zulaxawumusobuziduseme.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.siscard.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160c31cb04ee1d---15720452368.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.heracles-hotel.eu/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/9cv4glrnh5ar3ghlbv7q3k81ta/xazuseseputuwunok.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://aterhesseg.com/up_image/file/kelagitakofewaxagixuxufu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://cedresarquitectura.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160acf312cf7dd---9862653349.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://hellnocancershow.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609f3768af8e6---ratadigexevozerudunefaje.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://thanhlamresort.vn/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160ed9d465c50a---remijonejabufelufug.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://alnadaoil.com/userfiles/file/74396072037.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://comesa.com.pe/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/0s9lo8stjabn6f0ed8481sqql0/dusefozetex.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://vuaship.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/m5l38sbiicmrojo46tfbbpd9d0/26857492701.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.schule.havonix.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/jujuxude.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://retentionstudentexperience.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160aebbb75507a---xazafoseja.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://anaminfo.com/attachfile/file/45706118896.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://piqiso.ru/userfiles/file/ledemikipinif.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.champcaregivers.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160983c3f6bb81---25028894534.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://reanda.com/jingkelun/userfiles/files/20210722010145.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://briarcliff70.com/clients/874901/File/29620593615.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.1atlanticfunding.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16085569a12118---16454742895.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://grancom.by/upload/docs/11236818658.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/skout/mBVl/~3/FevRqgeaUVY/uplcv?utm_term=programmation+vba+pour+excel+2007+pour+les+nuls+pdfPDF link annotation
    • https://bxthirteen.wpengine.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/c2e981fe9a8c8b7d6f8fb1435a3e4bc6/migununonisorama.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.w3.org/1999/02/22-rdf-syntax-ns#In PDF document text
    • http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/In PDF document text
    • http://ns.adobe.com/pdf/1.3/In PDF document text
    • http://ns.adobe.com/xap/1.0/In PDF document text
    • http://ns.adobe.com/xap/1.0/mm/In PDF document text
    • http://ns.adobe.com/xap/1.0/rights/In PDF document text
    • http://dejavu.sourceforge.netIn PDF document text
    • http://dejavu.sourceforge.net/wiki/index.php/LicenseIn PDF document text

Extracted artifacts 3

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
font_00_sfnt_off000139a4.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x139A4 11664 bytes
SHA-256: 301a39d15224442a2764a164ef4f87d9b894ae809716b067b1269ce7eae925ff
font_01_sfnt_off0001551d.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x1551D 20172 bytes
SHA-256: d6a056fcac4abacc0b85f6d3e56e1d8334978ec1a155d24c6a329f976af849b7
font_02_sfnt_off00018803.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x18803 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1