Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 26de29178bfd1b28…

MALICIOUS

PDF

86.5 KB Created: 2021-06-29 17:26:31 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3)
MD5: 92ad0fcd1d097af2f71fd829d1d7f5cf SHA-1: 37d334af0bb361cf47a5afc5173a98b35d1f1b02 SHA-256: 26de29178bfd1b28027ad0bfc1dfd3e83afd6c6e6ae5f76312cddd0f3c4435a3
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

This PDF file was identified as malicious by ML classifiers and ClamAV, indicating a phishing or malware distribution attempt. It functions as a link farm, with numerous embedded URLs pointing to compromised websites and disposable hosting, likely to redirect users to malicious content. The presence of external URIs and the nature of the links suggest an attempt to lure users into clicking through to a compromised or malicious site.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9964

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://krisoc.ru/uplcv?utm_term=words+with+two+ii
    • http://pebyte.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/r2b7d3toku4of8u079flovrte9/ralititadinalomuban.pdf
    • http://harchovyk.com/userfiles/file/3467254257.pdf
    • http://ersatzmonitor.de/userfiles/file/nawasofaf.pdf
    • http://dhf-china.com/d/files/67523071295.pdf
    • http://www.davidwoodpersonnel.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16075b38d6511e---39860186070.pdf
    • http://astro2sphere.com/admin/images/file/fefunasaper.pdf
    • http://teaandtiarasottawa.org/clients/e/e8/e8f54e69a7463df9fd0adff13cd8e90f/File/rewiviwiziko.pdf
    • https://www.hontoys.com.au/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/m9787c5tg862iq24442j5e2gt6/muvefuxavok.pdf
    • https://www.pharmaright.ca/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/c9l8o579rpmttgl14rp7k601p5/puvikodisemovuxukusel.pdf
    • http://kingtonkatsu.com/uploads/files/zarisegufepegewagefinuje.pdf
    • https://ventana-sur.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16085ca9e3798b.pdf
    • http://americanpetrochemicals.com/customers/CMS-IMAGES/file/80722343942.pdf
    • https://sellerflows.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/62de2122022bc79b40d98085b7877e11/24638123043.pdf
    • http://profisystem.ro/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160ab9dbdcd13b---rofagedevadewenoduzuj.pdf
    • http://www.klpreschool.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608b07223a950---93505987229.pdf
    • http://riph.pl/userfiles/file/japapobamubadawoxaj.pdf
    • https://retentionstudentexperience.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1606cb8aa488a1---46837347941.pdf
    • https://ludifrance.fr/userfiles/file/33050734721.pdf
    • https://pabausa.org/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607d9b386c24f---bepurijarirufis.pdf
    • https://davebakeragency.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/34e1cbb78009d24f7e966376bc47f006/93316102579.pdf
    • https://nbtele.com/en/cache/fck_files/file/gozejukazaf.pdf
    • https://samarpanbharat.org/trila/userfiles/file/fekevuxigep.pdf
    • http://www.w3.org/1999/02/22-rdf-syntax-ns#
    • http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/
    • http://ns.adobe.com/pdf/1.3/
    • http://ns.adobe.com/xap/1.0/
    • http://ns.adobe.com/xap/1.0/mm/
    • http://ns.adobe.com/xap/1.0/rights/
    • http://dejavu.sourceforge.net
    • http://dejavu.sourceforge.net/wiki/index.php/License

Extracted artifacts 3

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
font_00_sfnt_off0000eb8f.bin
2051ea930dad19b223a7f3db8c273eacc092bc92b6f51ad11484fb1b50cf61dd
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xEB8F 20168 bytes
font_01_sfnt_off00011ef0.bin
9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x11EF0 16792 bytes
font_02_sfnt_off00013706.bin
cd82b7d7660ae3a4296e4e03f01bae389dc775cb28ff22a58ef259f9970776da
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x13706 9980 bytes