Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 26df80424df480c2…

MALICIOUS

PDF

86.3 KB Created: 2021-07-03 06:45:37 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-11
MD5: be357b6c4dadbec763477b93d2552691 SHA-1: 498b8c4e25049b0c30b2cfb3846dbb012fe042b3 SHA-256: 26df80424df480c2808c0a40cc20665f2a733d521c5ad1608b27538ce45af2c1
164 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment T1204.002 Malicious Link

This PDF file was flagged by a machine learning classifier and ClamAV as malicious, specifically as a phishing trojan. It contains numerous links, many hosted on compromised WordPress sites, suggesting a link farm designed to redirect users. The presence of a 'download button' heuristic further indicates a lure to trick users into downloading malicious content.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9947

Heuristics 7

  • 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.
  • 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 https://archism.ru/uplcv?utm_term=chapter+13+class+8+science+ncert+solutions PDF link annotation
    • https://acornschoolcharleston.org/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/3d448e46e739d376ec5eac2f2e58bb2b/wadimodobinerasozo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://clickkedai.com/userfiles/file/39709805574.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.louthadventures.ie/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1606cbe4cc9faf---wulufaxo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.eflox.net/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160c477f206b61---gemix.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://accuratesearch.com/userfiles/file/58252521529.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://aprendanow.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/20fcac7a743a714281096d3cbddfde58/63988568123.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.sunarmisir.com.tr/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/f0v0gugccdtqss306q176tk342/gojizale.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://xn--9w3b11kh5l.com/ckupload/files/73616131131.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ofipapel.org//ckfinder/userfiles/files/49845142186.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.pointcookelectrician.com.au/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16097ce4804bd7---29264910212.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://autoschiller.de/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608be2b1eb98f---73804453238.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://grandchainfamilyfoundation.com/clients/85333/File/96765547159.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://fashionflutters.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/28588560616.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.tif.cn/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/avq1ahnq5gifs32figusjulk25/12100815274.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.ptlittleflower.org/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/146bevgsq02uo19gs65its64tu/sabuvimawibafuxof.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.iqubz.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160d3e30d024b9---28977132460.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.plsok.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/b7aec28322a802c9de332ffe5f20ef63/47523199456.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.amiunaorchestra.ro/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160c02af013630---rejub.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://xn--80aab8aioy.xn--p1ai/userfiles/file/74291383275.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://amenagementsoleil.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160873891ee330---kuzaterididamuvuzusu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://slowjamsundays.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160c19dec4478c---75386894575.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://aven.su/userfiles/file/68169306060.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://tekmaker.com/upload/files/99914043613.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ajisushionline.com/uploads/files/teziwejulupipe.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_off0000eded.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xEDED 16904 bytes
SHA-256: 5de3aa72d073c504be9c522a8ff1fc37a50c98782cafdfe5d719a3955d0871bf
font_01_sfnt_off00011a17.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x11A17 11032 bytes
SHA-256: 5fa474d0c0906bd2e55d57f8a9e85faf48d4923136ec612a7911f11aa162c272
font_02_sfnt_off000133d3.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x133D3 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1