Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 26a8a9e948eb3741…

MALICIOUS

PDF

96.8 KB Created: 2021-07-26 10:31:10 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3)
MD5: eb66679f28f8b047bdb814e29b242bcb SHA-1: 67ec728d5c32cf1ad702315ad29dc5cbea16987a SHA-256: 26a8a9e948eb374104bbbf72b2168608b79602a8df22c44de7eecc271edb6914
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment T1203 Exploitation for Client Execution

The PDF was identified as malicious by ClamAV and an ML classifier, indicating a high likelihood of malicious intent. Heuristics indicate the document functions as a link farm, with many URLs pointing to compromised CMS uploads and disposable hosting. These links likely serve to redirect users to phishing sites or download further malicious content.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9996

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.brennholz-heinlein.de/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16081b62698354---vowovudituduto.pdf
    • http://anonelectronics.com/admin/fckeditor/editor/filemanager/connectors/php/upload_jpg/file/202104290520231065.pdf
    • http://arci-mp.fr/admin/File/53772311521.pdf
    • https://agrachoff.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/35ff81e96a5e2ac228284a945cad9622/jinivifonavefok.pdf
    • http://businessdevelopmentcenter.pl/uploads/userfiles/files/43615792739.pdf
    • http://timavoshipsupply.it/userfiles/file/14370972380.pdf
    • http://kindervakantieweekdeurne.nl/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160773273d6313---kozasigoz.pdf
    • http://thestarbusan.net/FileData/ckfinder/files/20210625_F866B350B205C136.pdf
    • https://www.inter-tube.co.uk/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/be519460f357b7379cf26bb84c8b609b/53633595113.pdf
    • https://www.lipfish.no/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607b97f7a12b2---zetunanuvagifodova.pdf
    • https://reifenscho.de/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160ca5771e8eeb---rasifu.pdf
    • http://lncxjzxxw.com/upload_fck/file/2021-6-28/20210628164754717963.pdf
    • https://www.dishdivvy.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/e21f8495857f0961ae35b6fe08b69b3c/38290955733.pdf
    • http://www.elsecretodelolivo.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160ddfea94deac---15019762701.pdf
    • https://allianceflooring.net/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/26758f22cf17727d8bc74f910bfc936d/93087249413.pdf
    • https://emilline.dk/ckfinder/userfiles/files/fologef.pdf
    • https://wlao.on.ca/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/348b0e3ddbb294592c2c985b94c4fa2e/92025109100.pdf
    • http://msinternationalbeautypageant.com/clients/8/8c/8c0f0497d7166b07b5568c04be8084ca/File/dovixojatukigera.pdf
    • http://leap-egypt.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608e6b389bab5---guvuxasol.pdf
    • http://healthywithhart.com/res/file/98717064179.pdf
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Uplcv/~3/cv9VXjIrmdE/uplcv?utm_term=population+community+and+ecosystem+worksheet+section+g+answers
    • 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_off000113c3.bin
9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x113C3 16792 bytes
font_01_sfnt_off00012bd5.bin
31924ba1dfe0c8eac60cd56e39d4873cb73aa4c0f83af5b4654e4f174e526a3b
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x12BD5 17552 bytes
font_02_sfnt_off000159c4.bin
46b8c59c138bce616c87c0e232f8d52cfecfdd1a7bc1685f4a83f48b2c4ea7ec
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x159C4 11356 bytes