Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 26ce356a040675fc…

MALICIOUS

PDF

94.2 KB Created: 2021-06-30 07:59:31 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-08-25
MD5: 19936a515e009bff424aa650e7395f58 SHA-1: 18fe788f5c53f63bc431959ed52015bba56762e9 SHA-256: 26ce356a040675fc53882521b52b2eafc65dea1d50d87751c637d913b770ced9
96 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

The ML classifier strongly indicated maliciousness, and the PDF contains a link farm pointing to multiple compromised WordPress sites. These links likely serve as a distribution mechanism for further malicious content or phishing attempts. No scripts were extracted, but the presence of numerous embedded URLs on compromised infrastructure suggests a coordinated effort to host malicious content.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9924

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 http://www.sunarmisir.com.tr/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/qduadcv49orsrf57qt7td2j552/62971780161.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://pvsystreports.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/8dbvgkj2crq4nvlivpg9vdk0f1/sujekimezorutam.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://christianboudreau.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160c30f72c663a---89233770361.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://bong-dem-long.org/upload/editor/files/feruzimaromako.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://xn--b1ahhafccpgkb2bxo.xn--p1ai/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/e1ee67af807c8ae0f40629c9febd83a2/pimudirokafeledo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://theemperorsoldclothes.co.uk/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/jsgvib0qok8md18b52a4pcipt7/xolidijixexinuj.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://lbs.ac.at/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/4olha75r0a453lvolltomps5u6/30014540111.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.generalutilities.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16085087871303---71709158354.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.businesswatchguardingservices.co.uk/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/j1u284lbuqcjqr5a0gom035bo8/vajiginazuvumunoxoposa.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://armandofalconi.net/userfiles/file/ximasixekatopugofow.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.marsagri.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16075ac5480d3f---22259198057.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://cloverdiamond.com/file/wilik.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.insurancedirectcanada.ca/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160c0816151769---siruzumugirof.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://matras-matrasych96.ru/admin/ckfinder/userfiles/files/tolopu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://kazenergy.kz/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160cd14c9a474e---gupatibafux.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.hemoroidklinigi.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608230226cab4---gesebetevososimenisir.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.kidnuri.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609af1de6952a---97978541725.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://roweryelectra.eu/app/webroot/uploads/file/16198663331934.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://facilitymanagementassociates.com/survey/userfiles/files/wofesej.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://lacecinella.com/writable/public/userfiles/file/vizejis.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://aleeblog.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/79v5cs5tfmqalq2ea2d8bujcl4/32587894117.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://getawaynewzealand.co.nz/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160984986609a4---54830537434.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://altaprecision.com/userfiles/file/60015082001.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.lang-mayer.de/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160c492a26e5f5---98419177404.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://akcjonariusz.com/UserFiles/file/81421209329.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/1eyvgo/aqOO/~3/BvfzZFkJO3s/uplcv?utm_term=egg+free+blueberry+muffinsPDF 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 4

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
font_00_sfnt_off0000f77e.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF77E 10512 bytes
SHA-256: 6d00de16898201e43f47360c0cd7b7a137a3f7272a16dfa108c4ad991850b014
font_01_sfnt_off00010f57.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x10F57 17488 bytes
SHA-256: daf2aad9af6ebc69438d9f957749f69167afeee9c27a9cb1a46f7374ff871e59
font_02_sfnt_off00013d84.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x13D84 16092 bytes
SHA-256: 9d5144547e0b729630886a3ad3ce48e7da84b0115899dd9c2390406af6f0fecd
font_03_sfnt_off000152c9.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x152C9 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1