Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 26ba66449b669efd…

MALICIOUS

PDF

82.1 KB Created: 2021-09-14 22:08:46 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-11-24
MD5: 2a03fca0d7fe2ef9b8731c35a71f11a0 SHA-1: d6a27fe1ba576e6db6f9de7fd742736b663ea009 SHA-256: 26ba66449b669efd0c8251260bc5754af1e72197ad67aae82785d322842d89fa
176 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF file contains numerous embedded URLs, many of which point to disposable hosting or compromised WordPress sites, indicating a link farm designed to redirect users. The ClamAV detection and ML classifier strongly suggest malicious intent, likely phishing or malware distribution. The presence of multiple external URIs and a link farm heuristic confirms the attack pattern.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9955

Heuristics 7

  • ClamAV: Pdf.Phishing.Trojan-d2568dad23a94d95-d2568dad23a94d95-10044375-0 critical CLAMAV_DETECTION
    ClamAV detected this file as malware: Pdf.Phishing.Trojan-d2568dad23a94d95-d2568dad23a94d95-10044375-0
  • Clickable URI points to raw IP address medium PDF_URI_IP_LITERAL
    PDF contains a clickable HTTP(S) action whose host is a literal IPv4 address. Legitimate documents normally link to named domains; raw-IP destinations are common in disposable phishing and malware-delivery infrastructure.
  • 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://chcial.ru/uplcv?utm_term=text+to+speech+in+android PDF link annotation
    • http://185.33.116.145/~acus01/upload/files/lopexezizagugawunojoxo.pdfPDF link annotation
    • https://nibrasimansch.com/userfiles/files/71206521954.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://mudrberanova.cz/userfiles/file/dekigi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://lunaleo.pl/userfiles/file/39943951469.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://tagsu.com/attachments/fckattachments/file/lipatereboxoze.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://suhrsmad.dk/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16140b8fe2abf6---4086201096.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://kingbakerypans.com/userfiles/file/27149950475.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://phutunggiahungoto.com/uploads/files/41220168867.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ucinnovation.ru/admin/ckfinder/userfiles/files/nonewufovunip.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://pabausa.org/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16138c3636d6b0---pedulexujunutunutojevogo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://limsurempat.com/contents/files/vujesojozowibubovo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.willmarareachamber.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/vuwojadubaj.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://restavratorstvo.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/xulozekato.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://inspirationallabels.co.uk/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16135face731e1---zanizobajonagol.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://aktifithalat.com/resimlerfiles/pesonuluj.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://graphicon.hu/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/161378f5eeac76---loviwovezi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://luckyassessoria.com.br/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1613e6ac3eb8f4---potikif.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://mariellatriolo.it/public/file/6022295754.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://foodzipo.com/uploads/userfiles/files/sivemes.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://dezmaster.com/userfiles/file/tatomofutudelogunel.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://studioconcept-stand.com/fck_userfiles/file/filogiku.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://s-oil.hoakhanh.vn/uploads/image/files/60759514759.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.grandiosa.is/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/5pui6vnn1c0tf5okua4tnt2f72/80147821464.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://1night2day.com/ckupload/files/gatem.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_off0000dc59.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xDC59 18012 bytes
SHA-256: 0281ce43b40864658f998152988688bb44d25aacc16bbe5375bbeb2b286d7452
font_01_sfnt_off00010ac0.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x10AC0 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_02_sfnt_off000122d7.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x122D7 10632 bytes
SHA-256: 9d52eecfd6df47445ccdcd6130c05cf22fcd86d108e9820a3ed5e7ac3034fe3a