Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 26bc3dbed35f876d…

MALICIOUS

PDF

83.9 KB Created: 2021-09-01 00:16:19 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-11
MD5: 159ffdd38a3aa3d28afaf1bd5558ec5a SHA-1: f4639858436790dd8501ee619cfeed021ad9505f SHA-256: 26bc3dbed35f876d318d277f2a93f9716c5461928f0ce221cd0e9922dc4d955d
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

This PDF file was identified as malicious by ClamAV and an ML classifier. It contains numerous links pointing to external websites, many of which are hosted on compromised CMS platforms or disposable domains, indicating a link farm designed to redirect users. The presence of multiple external URIs and link farm heuristics strongly suggests a phishing or malware distribution attempt.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9989

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://queure.ru/uplcv?utm_term=robin+and+wonder+girl+young+justice PDF link annotation
    • https://upbfassadenbau.com/upload/file/51491179899.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://gangwonbnb.com/FileData/ckfinder/files/20210719_5EF65AC1E2A298C1.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://kawanmto.net/contents//files/82671401455.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://montaze.org/democms/userfiles/file/wojufax.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://imagespa.mx/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1611705f8c6b4c---59036687656.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.seblocation.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/39754752024.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://daquin-ferriere.fr/userfiles/file/21653610848.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://geometrarontani.it/userfiles/files/gatawevorotumosogew.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://studiopol.com/userfiles/files/35866367106.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://maidintown.co.uk/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/407160b027f1d6733728bb2dd085a217/6433073970.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.lokalesichtbarkeit.de/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/gd8oh1c07m8nqq193lju7vfgke/6688228262.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://consoles-a-gagner.com/fckeditor/userfiles/file/23605668286.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://dgjst.com/upfile/file/51045143165.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://baoveantam.info/upload/files/52796535115.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://kaufdeinauto.de/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160b4b803c7edd---vezibaz.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://senseoftourism.dk/userfiles/file/bifodivatopuputefumamuve.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://tecsal.com.br/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16078b54ee21fb---jaduwazigabumorubobaw.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://eduinfinite.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/726706014da55a9136b036d2d9d289c8/91192906533.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://es-umzuege-transporte.de/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/65bc578a4627ee6bac346f371c792e25/60023395188.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://glavis.biz/userfiles/file/dotolozaliziwotenuxal.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://southtours.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/97je9ofsa89247nq4j82iv5d85/fonovapisupusak.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_off0000e04b.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xE04B 17832 bytes
SHA-256: ad403b2d22e54f41726ab49be283e9ed4b140a31a5820799bcf4483eb05b168e
font_01_sfnt_off00010edc.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x10EDC 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_02_sfnt_off000126f3.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x126F3 11160 bytes
SHA-256: 403c9001fc4ba5e14b088b9c5bfa310d26f9dd9cf848b76034551d3496d7e72d