Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 26c8413623305d07…

MALICIOUS

PDF

85.5 KB Created: 2021-06-27 02:02:05 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-08-20
MD5: fa4db3a5123218f018f070e74a3bc631 SHA-1: 9b06c95acd18b898ad45639379215dd3ce09cd7c SHA-256: 26c8413623305d0713430e2415884cbab13c1f8353d854d326046df7232ec98e
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF file was flagged by ClamAV as a phishing trojan and a machine learning classifier indicated a high probability of maliciousness. Heuristics identified it as a link farm, with many URLs pointing to compromised CMS uploads or disposable hosting, suggesting an attempt to distribute malicious content or phish for credentials. The embedded URLs and link farm structure indicate the primary goal is to redirect users to potentially harmful external sites.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9951

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://baohohoanglong.com/userfiles/file/40394708321.pdf In PDF document text
    • https://matskaren.se/anvandarbilder/203/files/10233220591.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://arnetbilgisayar.com/upload/ckfinder/files/17924222182.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://123natura.com/stockages/files/65620870139.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://smeclassof1987reunion.com/clients/37165/File/39883078016.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://girisimcilikproje.com/resimler/files/35144288736.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feriaesotericadeatocha.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608590a7591dc---jemun.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://agcslohian.com/userfiles/file/90668814665.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://carcable-bg.com/uploads/pictures/files/80251232558.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://riverasphotovideo.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160d79b7494897---66797239841.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.thelawchamber.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16079292ab304d---52512640058.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.opdrrustukalac.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1606e7a3b9804f---juvuridumed.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://sailstudy.in/ckfinder/userfiles/files/wanunefidog.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://amirep.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/17a6ba4d2f6311cce815bd4e9422f352/pewijetedatiwajekatulun.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://reicar.dk/userfiles/file/62003564424.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.lightingsolutionsal.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/4d4c916fc384a8ce836f70f8b78cf4f6/bigunomuwekefibavovuj.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://g3az.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1606ca982a4a5b---todebamuguxen.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://staffxrecruitment.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/a2a86a2689463dbc7b923b409e909227/sojaxawelexezujidis.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://totaleclipsenv.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608976288a140---42893471398.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://suportti.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16084fb2fdff11---17030471488.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.tonygssoulfood.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/19512740ede87c83b72f2425a6cd6b45/wunemotolemukekigumezesal.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://premiumresourcing.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160afe20316469---xulozur.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://braintradingbcn.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/366edfb2d50c4540bdbc4469035309d1/dusaki.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://patriot.ch/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/lvvb68sqi09vb78f7us3r2qa75/rajatavofasekowukirekoja.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Uplcv/~3/fzgW7-mxBc0/uplcv?utm_term=human+body+parts+in+amharicPDF 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_off0000ea9a.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xEA9A 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_01_sfnt_off000102ac.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x102AC 17200 bytes
SHA-256: e95de95040c3254473ccb18ccdcad9e8bde177d7f34b54c711bb7b756467ecb0
font_02_sfnt_off00012fb4.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x12FB4 10948 bytes
SHA-256: d9361ffd77077d622fc6e4fecc6d1614d1b85395d4458cb74804475cec2816e0