Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 26c1a39438eaa5f3…

MALICIOUS

PDF

93.3 KB Created: 2021-09-01 18:37:48 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-12
MD5: cdb630bfe4cd13d52b0e77cfc901063c SHA-1: 252b2dc06a01a6da850d2a7dc096db2cc65e3920 SHA-256: 26c1a39438eaa5f3d3a5de4eab095d1e9ab87cf4001fa6fb9fc0bde5b6ae2229
96 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment T1203 Exploitation for Client Execution

The PDF contains a link farm pointing to multiple compromised CMS upload directories, a common technique for hosting malicious files. The ML classifier strongly indicated maliciousness, and the presence of numerous links on potentially disposable or compromised hosting reinforces this assessment. The document body was unreadable, but the heuristics suggest the primary purpose is to redirect users to external, potentially malicious, content.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9985

Heuristics 5

  • 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://christianbelieversmatrimony.com/web/christiansbelieversmatrimony/photos/ckeditor/files/37178511488.pdf In PDF document text
    • https://worldkelo.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/d11766385e6ffbd66aaf8e1a81bf50dd/wuwusesilatokazesojad.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://positiveforce.in/uploads/files/tezosaratidisozugofo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://showplus.ae/userfiles/files/zabirifuwovinowi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://hospvetcentral.pt/site/upload/file/32177922581.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cedria.es/DOCUMENTS/FotosFCKEditor/file/33261478398.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://aite-materials.com/upfiles/file/bogotutubosin.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://cl-pub.com/files/files/31084144653.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.guaitoli.eng.br/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160c06606e64cf---zobenoxusozopegurapuxubi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://predit.ru/admin/ckfinder/userfiles/files/sojerilap.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://inchiriereelicoptere.ro/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16088f16f6ea37---65678999309.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://gpagroup.in/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a7328772841---tevoju.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://jncs.kr/page_data/file/20210823214651.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.nanodrywash.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1612c170f76e79---91025354633.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cspdental.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/09cb5d56e5e35ceed47adab48b3f8571/59428921064.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://evergladesharvesting.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/betiperowozizezun.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.pavimentosyreformasferlu.es/ckfinder/userfiles/files/matonupobesurep.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://caribsplash.org/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160ae2e7d2ee41---nepolu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://warsztatgdynia.pl/app/webroot/media/files/51112859313.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://go-pxl.com/uploads/files/13935323441.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://webmodeli.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608fa7a5030e8---96884364928.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://tomclarkvoiceovers.com/userfiles/files/mefipugesivotomipuw.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://whitelightdesign.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/eb18357cc35fdc2b64c207748ef7ea97/90872298833.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.retorika-zidar.si/ckfinder/ckeditor_uploaded_files/files/gigosumaru.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ed-web.cz/userfilesfile/85876089513.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/skout/mBVl/~3/YTWXjIUwRh0/uplcv?utm_term=james+henry+trotter+character+traitsPDF 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_off0001077a.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x1077A 17644 bytes
SHA-256: e9fde43964c13634b98da4c1fd5e715108cc886972a751603ee39aa415a3fa16
font_01_sfnt_off00013533.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x13533 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_02_sfnt_off00014d4a.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x14D4A 10552 bytes
SHA-256: 584a349f8b655e313731ff9457b9ae66a8d2c9bdb392a566fdd9793ddf9c0d71