Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 26ba8ce73ebd28a0…

MALICIOUS

PDF

91.2 KB Created: 2021-08-14 00:05:42 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-11
MD5: 2e4945946bd98e536a7f5b9f4e9961c5 SHA-1: dddd04058c779285ca42a8cbd9be402e222aabb0 SHA-256: 26ba8ce73ebd28a00440631283483051b2b9bfdad66f0380532a12a6b60850ca
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

This PDF file was detected as malicious by ClamAV and an ML classifier. It contains numerous links, many pointing to compromised CMS upload storage or disposable hosting, suggesting a link farm designed to manipulate search engine results or host malicious content. The document body is heavily obfuscated and appears to be metadata from the wkhtmltopdf tool rather than user-readable content.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9932

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://kovacsoltvaskerites.hu/images/file/90942476690.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://anhuizpyy.com/upload_fck/file/2021-5-6/20210506184644658053.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://postelezmasivu-ostrava.cz/ckfinder/userfiles/files/gulukenirilijisuwexo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://dagvandearchitectuur.be/_files/file/28475867304.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://essaidafm.com/uploads/FCK_files/file/57206101240.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://tanthueviet.vn/img_data/files/rezemexojuxa.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://caacoding.net/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160ad04719b33a---fobagexagi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://independentmusicleague.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/09eb566ddb3e1a65e9c4b971507b2789/xeroradopagetewemogolun.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://korvet-sp.ru/userfiles/file/55713881213.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://dogninja.com/userfiles/files/13476998087.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://eliteswimmingpoolsinc.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/rr2vkjq2pl6i3atojsoiq4n833/36210815974.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://le-lemniscus-incandescent.fr/ckeditor/upload/files/gixoko.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://nationalcardsolutions.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160b9bae995fcd---mupunobum.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.ideaklinik.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160782d98eeadf---22341548502.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://bhs1966maui.com/clients/64750/File/89255824578.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://autoscuolemontagna.it/userfiles/files/88243861813.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://kargo-box.com/uploads/files/32966956790.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://comodee.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160924a5cb0fb9---jenurumefobiwuxiluzodoso.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.ideaklinikkadikoy.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160f8fb34e0d48---simex.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ylphs.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/nepunipizejod.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://mijneigenlift.nl/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a0c2b7edadf---33667543860.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://rumputhijau.com/contents//files/59833260824.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://master-br.ru/img/file/bibijizoresiwej.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://fobiy.net/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/bfeb445ab1d1191f725524cbfc311d62/85861262579.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://illinoislivestock.org/userfiles/file/sadoxezilitovatuxiwaza.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://daiichilogistics.com/uploads/news_file/forivopafifawunevofekome.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/1eyvgo/aqOO/~3/cv9VXjIrmdE/uplcv?utm_term=what+qualities+make+a+good+team+memberPDF 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_off00010030.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x10030 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_01_sfnt_off00011842.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x11842 17144 bytes
SHA-256: f7bc7fe26c23a737be94011913037a39ea8ca344655f9c08186e13b98cf475b1
font_02_sfnt_off000144d9.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x144D9 11060 bytes
SHA-256: 044e6f887d234e09b19d262ca3765141d66beb9c210cc98e829cf2b448e672eb