Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 26a7bb561ac1cf8d…

MALICIOUS

PDF

76.9 KB Created: 2021-08-10 09:51:12 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-11
MD5: 9f47ee5cdc2c702a0e1dace3e8067e5c SHA-1: 843dd70268c0537a31ab2b34ec62b4112dfa5d16 SHA-256: 26a7bb561ac1cf8d497848bd26ed8490c71e3a306bf599066b055b91617890a8
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF file was detected as malicious by ClamAV and an ML classifier, indicating a high likelihood of malicious intent. Heuristics identified it as a link farm, with many URLs pointing to compromised CMS uploads and disposable hosting, suggesting a phishing or SEO poisoning campaign. The document body was unreadable, but the presence of numerous external links strongly supports the link farm attack pattern.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9973

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://maloneslandscape.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609057feb27f4---67445744176.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://www.naturapreserved.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160dd60896f25e---66768493699.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://oguzlarotomatiksanziman.com/depo/sayfaresim/file/48362333871.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://cokhitienvuong.com/uploads/files/41278973276.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://nuraski.pl/wsg/userfiles/26031476252.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://annjulieskarpmo.com/userfiles/file/28941491279.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://anaminfo.com/attachfile/file/50732990251.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://asu.com.vn/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/asf2afjp0u05s1o5v2ur0uq02v/jazobobaguzamuwewawitan.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://stroynerud-sm.ru/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1606d60dc9050d---vupuwojubufukepo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://betenrealestate.com/sites/default/files/file/wajikux.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://baatco.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/fovowetotiponavuvib.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://nanyangtextile.com/userfiles/file/56509061161.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://him-home.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/dd31f0408ff563fa0ff7c082c61fa5b7/80126026317.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://springkasteelhuren.be/userfiles/file/32923451833.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://gpagroup.in/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608f2708c62ca---lijesevumoworu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://10glazsikeyrosa.ru/file/6798175737.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://audiomaster.se/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607eb4e609b91---nusiximonurofisozefedaje.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://naturalmis.com/userfiles/file/21299641984.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.spoton.pet/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/rs3st42suj0ndg52m6rcq9nfug/65561338821.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://bajrahrs.com/userfiles/file/foxopisa.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://519pf.com/userfiles/files/87006291526.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.bussmann-tiefbau.de/ckfinder/userfiles/files/mazasudunekefumozumu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://evg-prague.fr/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160ca094bbcbcb---besekomoru.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.alapan.org/fckimages/file/pudivifimumomekuxij.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Uplcv/~3/DOqCt-cVA4I/uplcv?utm_term=compressor+alesis+3630+manual+em+portuguesPDF link annotation
    • http://kioskcondoweb.wpengine.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160abbe8f43562---19455272906.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_off0000c735.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xC735 17812 bytes
SHA-256: a3a6dd352e943e047a529649f5fe1729076facb5745d9559a00d80669bf8a6b5
font_01_sfnt_off0000f373.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF373 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_02_sfnt_off00010b8a.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x10B8A 11188 bytes
SHA-256: d4c91109fd0b0a4d551bfe5aae032c7677513d7a0a917a3083af27135a114567