Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 26c868bcddb20041…

MALICIOUS

PDF

86.8 KB Created: 2021-09-16 07:00:55 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-23
MD5: ace8a948d1020bef47b67c893d4db557 SHA-1: e65d284ef73927622e1534b91190032f6b7b4274 SHA-256: 26c868bcddb20041f292022ab30d186f07bac4ec27820b06626a67d75ac8e4c6
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

This PDF file was flagged by multiple heuristics as malicious, including a ML classifier and ClamAV detection. It contains a large number of external URIs and link farm patterns, suggesting it is designed to redirect users to potentially harmful websites. The presence of compromised CMS upload links further indicates a malicious intent to host or distribute malicious content.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9912

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://infrive.ru/uplcv?utm_term=latest+android+version+emulator+for+pc PDF link annotation
    • http://mzch.pl/userfiles/file/80355793847.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://poslovniimenik.net/firme_data/files/zorelafu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://nuevocoach.co.uk/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/1f22afa2f409b0945cf1ca91489b484a/53317341822.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://aaaxxion.info/images/file/fodaxo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://alenakovalchuk.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/bd7cc059bdf3b0cd83fa06e9c33852d1/12776716526.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.playerclub.ro/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16138d32d77034---70498543214.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ecole-belair.com/ecole/file/73957278700.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.ikedatosou.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/161361c1c62f29---gawemewobum.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://nakatarikaszel.pl/app/webroot/userfiles/file/dubar.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://triangle-electronics.com/assets/userfiles/file/sirasetetu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://beautydiction.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/xagufuf.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://thcscatquea.hoaiduc.edu.vn/ckfinder/userfiles/files/79700672727.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://hasanmasat.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/kanobifak.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://akdenizokullari.k12.tr/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/p0j98spbgrik8ktskj9adl7ad9/fijas.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://szkolaprzybranowo.pl/ckfinder/userfiles/files/84357746476.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ski-experience-japan.com/images/blog/file/zajokos.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cuatudongnhatrang.com/uploads/files/puvepolazuve.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://homeopathyhongkong.org/files/16285133657.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://europacreativaeuskadi.eu/files/galeria/files/pevudejiw.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.educationsexuelle-ecole.ch/ck/ckfinder/userfiles/files/fikonadubapoz.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://wanyuantemple.tw/userfiles/file/zujoromakizonulozer.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://a-1commercialkitchenservices.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/dinijadanulivekak.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://studioscoponi.eu/userfiles/files/gimewidamu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://driver-jazda.pl/upload/file/43406745587.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://brmhn.com/userfiles/file/20210914022300_a7cjxg.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://andreagarciam.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1613f133040251---48324557771.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_off0000f02a.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF02A 10904 bytes
SHA-256: ffb8dd9d74483b5cecd1f0f8c34edc1d24abeb18a65d439984602333d1cb826b
font_01_sfnt_off00010969.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x10969 16816 bytes
SHA-256: f8c8726702f238892f9fe57b607aab4fd21ce342126425afe3444ff8d7765651
font_02_sfnt_off000134ef.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x134EF 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1