Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 26aab8ffb34dc97e…

MALICIOUS

PDF

94.8 KB Created: 2021-09-02 18:17:31 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-27
MD5: 6cb1837a1ad5d224be19786802debb29 SHA-1: a38c948790178d7952009f7a0f503a1570445365 SHA-256: 26aab8ffb34dc97eea55988d764330c36da8be3eed1cf00f06bc5a2df259fb9b
164 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

The sample is a PDF file flagged by ClamAV as a phishing trojan. It contains embedded JavaScript and a significant number of external URIs, many of which point to compromised WordPress upload directories or disposable hosting, indicating a link farm designed to obscure the ultimate destination. The ML classifier also strongly indicated maliciousness.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9977

Heuristics 7

  • ClamAV: Pdf.Phishing.Trojan-d2528dad23a95d95-d2528dad23a95d95-10044376-0 critical CLAMAV_DETECTION
    ClamAV detected this file as malware: Pdf.Phishing.Trojan-d2528dad23a95d95-d2528dad23a95d95-10044376-0
  • 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.
  • Embedded JS stream low PDF_JS
    PDF references a /JS stream. Generic JavaScript is common in benign forms; specific dangerous APIs are scored by separate rules.
  • 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://stagelight.pl/userfiles/files/47339190634.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://noahsmarinesurveyors.ca/userfiles/file/87951693467.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://motiv8workout.com/up/files/vegejuk.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://stl-hk.net/userfiles/kizesisarilajuze.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.fattyweng.com.sg/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1606ca58f39678---38051345826.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://yuktiedu.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/f3618f6b6d86f2712d5b9231bdf2c358/55199163031.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://kaptenhoki.info/contents//files/rututeborosumev.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://pjkconstruction.ca/images/file/29036536541.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.dazzlingdecor.co.uk/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607ee62b285c8---66440592720.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://expresskaliski.info/file/74905588480.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://nowyhotelik.pl/userfiles/file/mewaxalozasuzu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://andrelandberg.com/userfiles/file/35246050749.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://alfa-clining.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/c4e0e4cb3104858754b7e66a8cb2c94b/20758545506.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://gongotour.com/FileData/ckfinder/files/20210612_4346728F5C1D691D.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.skyline-recruiting.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/f5a7d464f9a4c7662fabaa18964d2ebd/31962037882.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://lica.plovdivweek.com/js/ckfinder/userfiles/files/35472195353.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.kzhep.in.ua/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/aiiubf03totd7a0a109df0jfm7/lebudalesi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.plain-pied.com/editeur/ckfinder/userfiles/files/bumivibajamuk.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://accessiblevehicleservices.com/userfiles/file/82848726089.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://sooclose.eu/upload/File/pojopatovip.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://harpethvalleyhealth.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/9f8775ddbf17aec64ad76ece5754eb47/32450175492.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.movingintofreedom.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608d19f6929a6---7998821551.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Uplcv/~3/BkSY9tpko7c/uplcv?utm_term=cricket+and+cicada+magazine+pdfPDF link annotation
    • 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_off00010aed.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x10AED 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_01_sfnt_off00012304.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x12304 10812 bytes
SHA-256: fbae68418f6ea55d787d858c6df60a57fdf1e3e4616f9ca1a03dec93eb5a27a7
font_02_sfnt_off00013bc5.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x13BC5 19368 bytes
SHA-256: d9dbb73aa464bef880084af504474c0a80c085332230b3f75eea28984078bb96