Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 26c74200d02a2cd6…

MALICIOUS

PDF

72.9 KB Created: 2021-06-30 05:51:45 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3)
MD5: ff11706e9a69eb9446507b7abbbb8945 SHA-1: 9f4c767913d57e718d1ec585ecbf5690e76784fa SHA-256: 26c74200d02a2cd6b5c7b80b4afee098a12922804d5103cf8320999239229441
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

The sample was detected as malicious by ML classifiers and ClamAV, indicating a high likelihood of malicious intent. It contains multiple URLs pointing to potentially compromised websites or disposable hosting, suggesting a link farm or phishing lure. The presence of PDF-specific heuristics like 'PDF_SEO_DISPOSABLE_LINK_FARM' and 'PDF_COMPROMISED_CMS_UPLOAD_LINK_FARM' further supports this, indicating the document is designed to host or redirect to malicious content.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9963

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://adbetelparaguay.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/a60f75336df61e2ac563c3eb25405219/sokuw.pdf
    • http://stroynerud-sm.ru/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160ba54d296ae0---55756160707.pdf
    • https://yuss.it/file/5703035251.pdf
    • http://xn--80akij1ajew.xn--p1ai/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a0706b8d588---74616423271.pdf
    • https://kabelkyaobuv.sk/editor_uploads/files/95004558164.pdf
    • https://www.adler-leitishofen.de/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160b218276a609---kagimuxiborowojeleta.pdf
    • https://webmodeli.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160910090a681d---tazerutegagujizizifiwokub.pdf
    • https://themodernla.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/b0300830b366c90ba2430536b3d3cf8a/gefipojeti.pdf
    • http://shopcloud.cloud//ckfinder/userfiles/files/keropiw.pdf
    • https://greshamgilessalon.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/9e0157efaa6cd72d3aa8b0785718491a/vomuvovusiguzetoxir.pdf
    • http://work4shop.cz/userfiles/file/tirake.pdf
    • http://jagodkaprzedszkole.pl/userfiles/file/bivexusupemipusutebodavu.pdf
    • http://biplano.eu/userfiles/files/21670580674.pdf
    • http://www.stratcareerservices.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1606eda48b4510---67936977303.pdf
    • http://datavincity.com/uploads/ckfinder/files/zoboradexalefenakerake.pdf
    • https://www.criteriainvest.com.br/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/b9at50m5b2lncmib0rv62cocft/97997659424.pdf
    • http://gorisum.net/fckeditor/upload_file/file/68538968352.pdf
    • http://drinkandshrink.co.uk/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160c10d4c98763---mujuju.pdf
    • http://2478.ru/admin/ckfinder/userfiles/files/nalobefinufepitaxivapi.pdf
    • http://nhs1980alumni.com/clients/878257/File/zuwigi.pdf
    • https://briljant-maleri.se/UserFiles/files/86852966870.pdf
    • http://xn--b1ahhafccpgkb2bxo.xn--p1ai/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/5db20ed6ed66ae62a26115cfbf650b61/74964885404.pdf
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/skout/mBVl/~3/Om9ozkHLxGw/uplcv?utm_term=life+on+the+ice+journeys+3rd+grade+pdf
    • 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 3

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
font_00_sfnt_off0000bab2.bin
683407ea596ea3556a8672c4b3fedb5cc6584a4ecfe8735360db57c6571dd709
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xBAB2 11324 bytes
font_01_sfnt_off0000d513.bin
850fc2f47646d94e036bd69b99214c730d7dab162fd2bc35eade3e99ce5de40a
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xD513 16028 bytes
font_02_sfnt_off0000fe53.bin
9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xFE53 16792 bytes