Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 26dcb3424b26fb53…

MALICIOUS

PDF

69.8 KB Created: 2021-06-28 05:34:38 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-08-20
MD5: 2833776b61475d0d704002cf30f8df9d SHA-1: 3e6bb95693cb032e7c8048a6c8145bee5df57134 SHA-256: 26dcb3424b26fb53eab5259539ccb5b1bd44ce420af7e281428f30357303ad78
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 Pdf.Phishing.Trojan and by an ML classifier as malicious. Heuristics indicate it functions as a link farm, pointing to multiple distinct hosts, some of which are compromised CMS uploads. This suggests an attempt to distribute malicious content or phish credentials by directing users to potentially harmful websites.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9968

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://bd-sokolovska.eu/userfiles/file/38097511953.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://carrollcountylawyers.com/customer/3/d/9/3d947ad6ce2568d98b832ccf5548371bFile/74233651506.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://hoffmanowska.pl/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609e9ff651a0a---zuxavaw.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.andimoda.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/b91e03d3704822c83bc8b4397e69b591/99204521414.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://allnatureint.com/userfiles/file/36083957130.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://vilaportugal.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160ad49ee4651c---bukusal.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://alatheir.com/atheirwsfiles/file/miner.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.saraviation.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609c548c16183---gobogat.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://suarezbeltran.com/aym_images/files/75549337911.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://swimproject.eu/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/ed3719af7e4417cbe215332bcb0876b4/zetifufimiroto.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://endustriyelkiralama.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/2eba190hluscvdqi25fb19inr0/wudibosudurusuwegenegegud.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://evenimentecastel.ro/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/4e19bbo3nvaeg1hlqb0k34h71i/fojekuwapej.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://m3hotels.com/userfiles/file/96572949478.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://associacaoguainumbi.org.br/wp/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160797941c07a7---5992295838.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://vudafrique.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/4eab2b70cd1b7ae403c11b5a56f0b1cb/xuridajokezuvag.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://flycam.com.tr/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16082fa62e2272---85170429135.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://akarchlight.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/94b3cc52ce374afe834cd30e3744e0ba/regaz.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://i-daa-wl.de/userfiles/23704713308.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.nationaalgolfcongres.nl/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a23e6623c90---57808542125.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://aimara-bg.com/userfiles/file/firatam.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://na-nule.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/hhr5o07rvtqo38hlcgn655ltd1/26015770036.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://wilsonbarrera.com/inicio/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609afc43922d8---fokinebikub.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://okud-istra.hr/userfiles/file/sulewinetos.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://empylean.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/mlk052nrl2i9dc6244h6gd0874/nufebe.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/1eyvgo/aqOO/~3/S30rS-6n6vg/uplcv?utm_term=use+of+sodium+hypochlorite+in+water+treatmentPDF 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_off0000b39d.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xB39D 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_01_sfnt_off0000cbaf.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xCBAF 14244 bytes
SHA-256: a62d70fec8459bdb29592a9b23512e3312f4a10615dc4e7cae2cc61c13f57a84
font_02_sfnt_off0000ef60.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xEF60 11192 bytes
SHA-256: e33af32e114e2faec6ce948277a6a8a717ebeef78b558f677947c2c42f892890