Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 26d566462cd9df3a…

MALICIOUS

PDF

88.6 KB Created: 2021-06-26 20:38:04 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-08-25
MD5: 2c1e7761e4aaede61cd170e84332e174 SHA-1: 5eaa96a41f48aa4d50ac14c9fa11b3f764a6c009 SHA-256: 26d566462cd9df3ade058da09637fa8b7f4c74975e76e9ca71549e368b7d323f
164 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

The PDF contains a link farm pointing to multiple compromised WordPress sites, suggesting an attempt to distribute malicious files. The presence of a 'download button' heuristic further supports this, indicating a lure for users to click and download. ClamAV detection as 'Pdf.Phishing.Trojan' confirms the malicious nature of the file.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9948

Heuristics 7

  • 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.
  • Visual download / call-to-action button lure low SE_DOWNLOAD_BUTTON
    Document contains a call-to-action phrase ('Click here to download', 'Download Now', etc.) — low-signal unless other findings point to a malicious workflow
  • 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.siscard.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160839e68261a3---ruzivotafikinulegat.pdf In PDF document text
    • https://earthchartercities.org/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160706bd20bf55---85197312390.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://thehawthornnyc.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16078c556051f4---jusitawudonave.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://friluftsgruppen.se/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a447156afdf---libodivexuxixoze.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://rbtyutj01.com/userfiles/files/96811179490.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://brandnewgoods.net/userfiles/file/85839828149.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://x-software.cz/data/file/99606957914.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.chicagoalphas.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607d3d23dfa5b---76964944804.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://dachastyle.com/userfiles/file/12517161195.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://1hozain.ru/files/userfiles/files/gibekusepuge.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.alertgy.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/213503c0fb806166f7eb85fc2ec214ce/66705397385.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://truck-diagnostic.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/44350f6666bc8701ac9368e82efd3df0/66979804878.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ahsaipu.com/v15/Upload/file/2021522146129541.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://pavcargo.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/5ff97eee7ab846476c828876132a3c89/vasana.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.hkwebdesign.com.hk/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160b35b59caff8---zutipesegobun.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://avtoarka.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/432f5b59e11a693f73cf379b55580589/doragumuvaze.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://foire-fromages-et-vins.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608d9edead5d7---40838353379.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://burgaseguros.com/userfiles/file/tuxidovukukapumagaxa.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://hcviet.com/img-phuctri/files/22408970424.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://prana.video/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/pv9s9u94304j2bbjihsq3l15sg/43987347199.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://playgametoday.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/4e93cb8b2d7202e36ae2924c27599182/guweki.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.cheapmotorcycleinsurancepa.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/pgbg0ktg1mkg1380b85o7betf4/16954998691.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://sakitonus.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/92bea4ae8c0fa0bf7f8e2b62589b71ae/vamivufe.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/1eyvgo/aqOO/~3/S30rS-6n6vg/uplcv?utm_term=best+private+browser+for+pcPDF 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_off0000f749.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF749 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_01_sfnt_off00010f60.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x10F60 10668 bytes
SHA-256: dd90893385a845620126dd2192f2e34000b1be07ad3e866493a93bf95314e004
font_02_sfnt_off000127e9.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x127E9 17416 bytes
SHA-256: c2eff6f9cdfbcf57f175e948301d318e893e44f58bd196ca628436ba06da6e01