Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 26c11f7f7cebb202…

MALICIOUS

PDF

95.1 KB Created: 2021-06-26 08:20:58 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-08-25
MD5: dac6af74d513aba2ae4a7e6e1452024c SHA-1: 55a8fff00ea5217002a3a325e2e1b5a608ac3681 SHA-256: 26c11f7f7cebb202337df694ac840606bd86c8edfae046e6b41b68105aff2189
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

The PDF contains numerous external URIs and is identified as a link farm pointing to compromised WordPress upload storage, indicating a phishing or malware distribution attempt. ClamAV detection and ML classification further support its malicious nature. Although no scripts were explicitly extracted, the structure and embedded URLs suggest it is designed to redirect users to malicious content.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9806

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://inwebjor.ru/uplcv?utm_term=past+perfect+in+indirect+speech PDF link annotation
    • https://www.jemelectric.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160770082bc166---63334544812.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://moniimpex.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607357673a715---21326010618.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.putnamtaxi.net/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160c0b39243445---33531540013.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://phuwangnam.com/user_file/file/redefefu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://alfavit.tv/userfiles/file/6437323882.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.sblending.com.au/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16097413919686---mozosikatewe.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://dfa-finanz.de/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160b167a562a7c---8948025138.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://le-lemniscus-incandescent.fr/ckeditor/upload/files/rexif.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ash-graphy.com/userfiles/file/divox.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://noukos.gr/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160799cc879faa---mowunatewarefuwadopiz.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://plumcourse.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/e11edf23cc047872f55b3457e91ebc74/65111971989.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://p-itos.net/admin/userfile/image/file/85440228076.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://postscriptproductions.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160af955cf1262---jegijekumokilosebofuw.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://totaleclipsenv.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160bd7335a9cee---16053570496.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://joshuadacosta.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16076d9acbc200---sagup.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://sipare.com.ar/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/ll0suru311p8karvtn888d71sd/wutegufarabivavepesud.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.andyselfstorage.co.uk/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/21i2hpd73om3hieio498k3g6aa/14164115844.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://bestforfishing.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/1e2021985b2a5335dcafe25a3427dbaa/buvewulovis.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://adm.allianceflooring.net/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/6a3cd3eb5c259f12f23649a904b61412/40746289363.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://kashima.cc/userfiles/file/pigovunokunoru.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://nowbali.co.id/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16091f60192fab---59623469638.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://primax.fr/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/6d47jk7l5ap2koq02pk0t7o6u2/67165882132.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.festivalmarrakech.info/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160b87c47e01af---29371449108.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://nhanloc.net/userfiles/file/bekitodugokinoket.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://amesmedicalservices.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607cc1cc534d7---65991700049.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://al-bandak.com/userfiles/file/rubatisunu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://amtusa.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608218cc0ea11---direfewiramoba.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_off0001125b.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x1125B 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_01_sfnt_off00012a6d.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x12A6D 17180 bytes
SHA-256: 77870382cb4184ce5f6778655863921dd36e4a6d10b05a822813333ff67694e8
font_02_sfnt_off000156ff.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x156FF 10552 bytes
SHA-256: 4e87c1c2608e512f333e2eb89179d1493def192683130efafb534861ab737625