Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 26bbe0d6eecdbb3b…

MALICIOUS

PDF

79.8 KB Created: 2021-07-05 05:07:40 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3)
MD5: 391317640b0186db58ce8662abea3dd0 SHA-1: f5b7281f674f81d254cd34c91007906fb55e13e8 SHA-256: 26bbe0d6eecdbb3b53f98cda346486fe7e6c000fc561dd6ac18e5e183b5a620e
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

The PDF file was identified as malicious by ML classifiers and ClamAV, specifically flagged as a phishing trojan. Heuristics indicate it functions as a link farm, with numerous embedded URLs pointing to compromised WordPress sites and disposable hosting. The primary purpose appears to be redirecting users to external, potentially malicious content, aligning with phishing or scam tactics.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9952

Heuristics 6

  • 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.
  • 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://heatingboiler.ca/fck_upload/file/goginosenonun.pdf
    • http://www.playerclub.ro/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16076d980d481e---rifud.pdf
    • http://bienbao.org/uploads/files/temevamofos.pdf
    • http://aranykoronakft.hu/userfiles/file/taziwoxusopamonoxowum.pdf
    • https://mediabandit.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16088efbad3930---balejeka.pdf
    • http://www.lugashotel.com/data/editorfile/93826689887.pdf
    • http://firstcuwire.com/file_media/file_image/file/65830742035.pdf
    • https://www.lokalesichtbarkeit.de/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/nqkirokt6o144bvjk458ir6ukc/76870002200.pdf
    • http://hud101.vn/webroot/img/posts/files/kagojilivizutu.pdf
    • http://schouteninterieurwerk.nl/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608c0db24bc51---jeketoxaj.pdf
    • http://www.uppld.org/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a68b0ae1f07---likiguvefiviredo.pdf
    • https://meganimal.pt/site/upload/file/fuzil.pdf
    • https://www.femregenx.co.za/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/sqcnahp0ltd0k4i5802aijiroa/3349619316.pdf
    • https://perfecthospitals.org/FCKeditor/file/70908650254.pdf
    • http://vvk-wiedermann.at/userfiles/file/vuretigevejulibubedoperaj.pdf
    • https://www.bistro-e.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607bd13a81acd---zokefanazuninigobe.pdf
    • http://www.nandomoraes.com.br/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a7c9123e6b8---gikewadedurojofo.pdf
    • http://deltools.com/userfiles/file/94213434080.pdf
    • http://dentherapia.hu/files/file/55833781143.pdf
    • http://www.olympussverige.se/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/igjmgb28v414v3cjei64kviahd/77666182811.pdf
    • http://urbancollab.com/userfiles/Proj_Name//files/lupuxof.pdf
    • https://www.picmephotoboothhire.co.uk/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160b5b5a943747---88568730338.pdf
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/1eyvgo/aqOO/~3/6naE_Nh8_CY/uplcv?utm_term=android+ui+2.1
    • http://www.w3.org/1999/02/22-rdf-syntax-ns#
    • http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/
    • http://ns.adobe.com/pdf/1.3/
    • http://ns.adobe.com/xap/1.0/
    • http://ns.adobe.com/xap/1.0/mm/
    • http://ns.adobe.com/xap/1.0/rights/
    • http://dejavu.sourceforge.net
    • http://dejavu.sourceforge.net/wiki/index.php/License

Extracted artifacts 4

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
font_00_sfnt_off0000d013.bin
9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xD013 16792 bytes
font_01_sfnt_off0000e825.bin
798b446a65f8414eb16d8e4cce47d6e8a64920f01acfb02f8f94c34f49819d05
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xE825 16772 bytes
font_02_sfnt_off0001138e.bin
2bd1593fd2de40a4f8da929f7b7ed9d7c5f70c742aa1c2fa9183847b6852e253
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x1138E 9956 bytes
font_03_sfnt_off000129ac.bin
15171638d69c9281a983de8a04f8d213e5ed86d33053034f6aa0dd130c4010d8
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x129AC 1700 bytes