Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 26b0d229cf1ef837…

MALICIOUS

PDF

79.3 KB Created: 2021-09-05 11:16:27 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-12
MD5: b872485dc761aca4feaa7edcab453a2d SHA-1: 5e0d5cb298ede61b52043700259111285b965058 SHA-256: 26b0d229cf1ef837328c15b0b9b3020c7cf323a0ae3f0244d9ff369a37e6156d
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

This PDF file was detected as malicious by ClamAV and an ML classifier, indicating a phishing or trojan distribution attempt. It contains numerous external links, many hosted on compromised or disposable domains, suggesting a link farm designed to redirect users to malicious content. The presence of embedded URLs and the overall structure point towards an attempt to exploit users through deceptive links.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9846

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://crysiq.ru/uplcv?utm_term=roman+catholic+mass+in+tamil+pdf PDF link annotation
    • http://bigxra.com/uploadfile/file/2021062913373673499.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://kvartira-zalog.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/df3db22d2ebd13a4d20022552f564df5/82096900173.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://caudafotografia.com/userfiles/files/4717953046.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://windcampus.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608e52af2b042---ninilikezuwulazolo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://gpba.ge/admin/ckeditor/ckfinder/userfiles/files/fubijazozajatibek.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.escon.it/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/69269f77e6415c32cb99bfabd47fb1a5/23912438764.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.hagensmarketing.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16123c9201fe2f---69574434353.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://anzmrrn.org/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a5125a21f81---sumasukefob.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://audreyheselmans.com/_files/file/7385947023.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://fsoa.cn/userfiles/file/vabotasabuzajokusumimokiv.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://unnatiwelfareorganization.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/18990590389.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://didaconcept.com/admin/fckeditor/file/518154681.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://cutencuddlybreedables.com/_images/file/62384063144.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://aiaciran.org/cache/fck_files/file/4202069703.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://winfielddeli.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/todewimofufexaxotuvuw.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://stphilomenaonline.org/userfiles/file/luwojisojetifadaluvov.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.advids.io/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160c26102b0ac0---24560043321.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.hagensmarketing.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608e638b6562b---48128558043.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://lanegarrett.net/userfiles/file/72147202722.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://afriqueitnews.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/2114ae3e0ad1704fcb13e7f96aaa96c4/14798623304.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.inhd.com.br/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16076b7a8b208f---lebituxutidiwukoliwuzole.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://josephfellerlaw.com/customer/3/d/9/3d947ad6ce2568d98b832ccf5548371bFile/nebevuvex.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://vudafrique.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/03e808dced55bdbe3ef9dc0b671719e7/86022626332.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://welltowork.org/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/a1e3ef45cdde45a9089b9f172f66986f/60861976343.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://alfonsoguiggiarchitetto.it/userfiles/files/84336224191.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://christembassyromford.org/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/adcf92e99e976cffba4dca037382e579/41260161016.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_off0000ca27.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xCA27 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_01_sfnt_off0000e239.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xE239 20840 bytes
SHA-256: 4482b2b0277640594af8b36ef5a5513e800de2a2e0844da5320f4faabb852fa3
font_02_sfnt_off0001174f.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x1174F 10700 bytes
SHA-256: 6c753549cc9ae5541fadca7eac1b2d9a1bcabfe0eb38e4ea0639ccbc9fdfc92b