Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 26e013daffcc68c5…

MALICIOUS

PDF

97.2 KB Created: 2021-06-27 01:08:49 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3)
MD5: 27b462444716f1cdfe2822294df29efb SHA-1: 29e19568bfcce8df5b98b0232f1a25b079484be7 SHA-256: 26e013daffcc68c537a4ec27d324f53910908d8262e77d28acee36fc5f5a9615
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

This PDF file was flagged by multiple heuristics, including a critical ClamAV detection for 'Pdf.Phishing.Trojan'. The file contains numerous external links, many pointing to compromised WordPress sites and disposable hosting, suggesting a link farm designed to redirect users to malicious content. The ML classifier also strongly indicated maliciousness. While no scripts were explicitly extracted, the nature of the link farm and the detection names suggest the PDF is intended to facilitate phishing or malware delivery.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9910

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 http://akvari-um.ru/userfiles/file/84095420778.pdf
    • https://refundsrefunds.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1606f11462b9f1---gewugidonorozosa.pdf
    • http://bbfederico2.net/userfiles/file/25863981129.pdf
    • http://plusbateria.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16084134419c31---84327175190.pdf
    • http://jakpaisanestate.com/images/upload/files/tunenege.pdf
    • http://gramercygrand.ru/files/file/10896008382.pdf
    • http://witnesstherealist.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/7e93d2f83cd9eabe8d555c02278a2629/12027647294.pdf
    • http://unipell.com.br/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16084ef1e45e1f---8925460751.pdf
    • http://aksaaydinlatma.com/img/editor/image/file/witukodozenepikilefeze.pdf
    • http://www.stratcareerservices.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160807b85d0d07---62226863711.pdf
    • http://uyaviation.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16099e5342ca5b---35854078480.pdf
    • https://investainternational.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609387bb3d366---vewivasosamusaxofube.pdf
    • https://tecsal.com.br/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608b75c5b2d8f---68353088671.pdf
    • https://www.limratechnologies.net/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160b31ab111c61---fepaxi.pdf
    • http://www.sunarsurdurulebilir.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/u5bnn8dpv49ma2fkgt1j3e9o46/netidivezofutozaba.pdf
    • http://gentlemensquartersbarbershop.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/6bb995faa92b5ff803179cfdaec37386/73814708027.pdf
    • http://ipvoicenj.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a1d2742e9d0---94962090068.pdf
    • https://ntiverification.com/userfiles/file/8319970295.pdf
    • http://merrygoldholidays.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/90274737125.pdf
    • http://dui-antidote.net/images/userfiles/file/74403512133.pdf
    • http://kaufdeinauto.de/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607a0e877602f---zuwixidemenunenugulubi.pdf
    • http://www.qookspot.kitchen/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160790d65d0809---35951432435.pdf
    • http://kennycojewelry.com/userfiles/files/202106/1623855164.pdf
    • https://ekransamara.ru/files/24261261718.pdf
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/1eyvgo/aqOO/~3/zMnd8XtcwSM/uplcv?utm_term=lower+extremity+edema+treatment
    • http://kioskcondoweb.wpengine.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607909db64bc0---86784369851.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 4

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
stream_004_off00012a34.bin
bdaa8f7cd6b0f2cb5ee8c6d334da0abbf53bcf4610580c2ce9970e391ab3846a
decompressed-pdf-stream PDF FlateDecoded stream at offset 0x12A34 18676 bytes
font_00_sfnt_off0000fa58.bin
9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xFA58 16792 bytes
font_01_sfnt_off0001126f.bin
ad704db8709f46425937bd2d13857fa1124b9ae50d2d1649bc31f1179003c761
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x1126F 10452 bytes
font_03_sfnt_off000147ae.bin
d207a26ed727687d5b07502e3d82f9ff0f1be224733ff19faf7effb8b6880953
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x147AE 18612 bytes