Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 26993a9d30f07402…

MALICIOUS

PDF

82.9 KB Created: 2021-08-16 16:46:29 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-23
MD5: 6f6c4f3c728bc2fcb8091edfa20537e6 SHA-1: 8ab8baa91f528b59762d417ff53348237ed9f89e SHA-256: 26993a9d30f074024d70ee9a789ef09f739972a96cb30c31a667f2bbfe53b10e
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

This PDF file was flagged by multiple heuristics and a machine learning classifier as malicious, specifically identified as a phishing trojan. It contains numerous external links, many pointing to compromised WordPress sites, suggesting a link farm designed to redirect users to malicious content. The presence of these links and the overall detection pattern indicate a phishing or malware distribution attempt.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9964

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 https://chcial.ru/uplcv?utm_term=mainstays+floor+lamp+with+table+instructions PDF link annotation
    • http://uniondeautoescuelas.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607a2fc368996---zupab.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cabsfromheathrow.com/userfiles/file/49150434862.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ozona.pt/wysiwygfiles/file/xikenoximikepawokajov.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://master.plus/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/5db0928a438db7c7c0453e30390bb42b/14794663984.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://tweddlefoto.com/files_contenidos/upload/files/mezore.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://equalland.com/uploads/File/joxuvetizu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://propbrains.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/auvbhk0c2r8ndj0rundtuvise6/28143992754.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://gmei.lt/ckfinder/userfiles/files/zarefusumijurala.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://lichnyiybrand.ru/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160f0db750bb9a---pudegu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://tunglamgarden.com/images/fck/file/44409943804.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://atlanthealth.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/4a23e7660a7bc7006a7c75f31b3e6ba7/30049611524.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://thesecurityguardunion.ca/userfiles/files/84407572825.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ipsaix.com/ckeditor/ckfinder/userfiles/files/39418907007.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.themeshcowork.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/212d374cf7d0670addebc398edf1f769/rifevexafaxo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://havanic.com/cache/fck_files/file/96343690891.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://thaimassageboy.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/zuwakanotazotubisejul.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://phucatgarment.com.vn/ckfinder/userfiles/files/vuvevitizoraxi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://urbanplace.me/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/59c7a2361f14022a52191fde09a7a185/mefivuxelifedazusimaxefat.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.waterlooarmsnewforest.co.uk/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/7875fae823072bc1c90d99828e608e4f/xusevopitaxev.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://swotin.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16085fc2d37aaa---67704780098.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://inlikeflintlogistics.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608b620a9d51c---12896745096.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.thc.gda.pl/ckfinder/userfiles/files/jopag.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_off0000dfca.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xDFCA 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_01_sfnt_off0000f7e1.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF7E1 11176 bytes
SHA-256: ee11d9261fe7df58e53abe5f20c469e29973cc78c3991d7a82a66fee6aa62a31
font_02_sfnt_off000111b6.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x111B6 17004 bytes
SHA-256: b196dce524287adafcb2ca2232c734594a1f9973a87137c7e2951dda54a4aa40