Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 26b5cff8c8adc82e…

MALICIOUS

PDF

86.3 KB Created: 2021-07-03 04:23:38 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-09-13
MD5: 7ef013c020a9a66961750a98f8d0760e SHA-1: bef6eb9027d97ad6c8126c3fafda8366b4247168 SHA-256: 26b5cff8c8adc82e899cc05ab8745ca397f4a6865ce3e9c09464e2d167ee585c
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF contains a link farm, with many URLs pointing to potentially compromised websites. The ML classifier and ClamAV detection strongly indicate malicious intent, likely for phishing or distributing further malware. The presence of numerous links on disposable or compromised hosting supports this assessment.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9952

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://icsbc.ru/fuploader//file/giduxanutuvuwawower.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://xn--80aaa1acmiejxr6d7fg.xn--p1ai/data/files/gibavawibopamixaxa.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://burelomdo.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/51425155928.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ankaratemizlikcim.com/depo/sayfaresim/file/sunuvufona.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://tulsamemorialclassof71.com/clients/84987/File/gixudipujilipepisizapuf.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ensasoft.com.tr/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/c66cs450ntegunni4bffsu6g8a/77167454275.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://orderleesushi.com/uploads/files/37511294491.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.tenniscanberra.com.au/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16072eec3891ea---62289703938.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.sunarpazarlama.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/nvhercjb985ubup2vu8rk6bas1/19072374915.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://stefandes.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160810f76b4514---xezivun.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.hollyskauaicondo.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16087315a19f89---91716898737.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://xo-sound.ru/userfiles/file/30598777249.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://top-conversion.ru/ckfinder/userfiles/files/japejetijotoraratizetam.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://taiwan-casters.com/userfiles/file/naviranosozolivobiwumited.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://mwflower.com/upimagesfile///77499304674.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.majoriscambio.com.br/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160dd809a8d48d---80494075950.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.rockfallco.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1606e753ed0b24---22184664847.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://xn--78-6kce7dfhb9dwb.xn--p1ai/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/0889c8453e6fe98b59083fa01e0d01ea/71265151438.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://varanini.pl/userfiles/file/tezetev.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://eventcompany.org/clients/e/e3/e30ef11cf4efe639fe6592aa37b9cb94/File/vusadomigamexupelofap.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.projectorrentals.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608191967c17f---zepumazarogamab.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://symbioticlifetech.org/attfile/fckimg/file///2021052301658_151215107.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ahsaipu.com/v15/Upload/file/202152525567722.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/skout/mBVl/~3/S30rS-6n6vg/uplcv?utm_term=does+washing+clothes+in+warm+water+shrink+themPDF 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_off0000edf0.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xEDF0 10856 bytes
SHA-256: 745bc1b32254360dd5a96f3dcc01e47ce90ae5c7730078ad03db609a47431fb1
font_01_sfnt_off000106eb.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x106EB 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_02_sfnt_off00011efd.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x11EFD 16580 bytes
SHA-256: 81341390207d6dc4dc136a64e75269a0c18b625eba0ad4701e35124152b8ca0b