Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 26e185b9fcf41030…

MALICIOUS

PDF

70.9 KB Created: 2021-10-03 17:46:44 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-11-25
MD5: 863035d09bbee016039bc15ded6829f1 SHA-1: 691d09a2c3af2411ae9feccac3f3ef62dc1cf1c2 SHA-256: 26e185b9fcf41030e209d50e56d9cbaed2f0c93cedbc4f0b54fc1b7dc8f26e58
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

The PDF contains numerous embedded URLs, many of which point to compromised WordPress sites or disposable hosting, suggesting a link farm designed to redirect users to malicious content. The ML classifier and ClamAV detection strongly indicate malicious intent. Although no scripts were explicitly extracted, the nature of the URLs and the PDF structure suggest it is likely used to facilitate phishing or malware distribution.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9965

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://coretry.ru/uplcv?utm_term=word+to+pdf+online+free+without+email PDF link annotation
    • http://yuseigachi.nl/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16140c011caeb6---vojovebexa.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.como-grup.ro/fisiere/file/vulegemama.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://dacoma.ro/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1614879f47c505---13609094479.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://dges.in/userfiles/file/jatawodorofeduwofizevote.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://baheth24cars.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/wodazi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://doina.md/fckeditorfiles/file/18333804473.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://marcth.pl/media/fck/file/dugesunilivefilojibujefe.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://flyingkirin.com/uploadfiles/file/04071815522.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.megasaludips.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16130152b718f8---19552144220.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://cecev.com/stockages/files/tajitivixibosavi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://skulpt.in/admin/uploads/file/29523058735.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://brianhigbielaw.com/UserFiles/file/36214704732.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://hsound.ro/images/custom/file/lupinafikitat.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://wellgroup.cz/UserFiles/File/gabazutigugegunewulexinop.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://mingzhicc.com/userfiles/files/25077610557.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://spellenindex.nl/images/uploads/66199632203.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://irk-yoga.ru/upload/files/dudatufanalivasuzi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://langeline.com/ckeditor/upload/files/22097767744.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://milwaukee.center/userfiles/file/65462083831.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.ogblfrontaliers.fr/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/hqutpgs92rtdt2bj4pd6qk5gme/limokex.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://liga-stf.ru/i/upload/files/25346484678.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://vswet.ru/f/kixud.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://puisan.ru/uploads/file/4524426204.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://contact-house.com/fckeditor/upload/file/33403427337.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ateneoarbonaida.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1613810b3cc782---71249464805.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_off0000b1c8.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xB1C8 17048 bytes
SHA-256: 9e6dcef5f2380ddfb944b334426ea6b859e57982d55d284fee3bd9c7b38d8c58
font_01_sfnt_off0000dd44.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xDD44 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_02_sfnt_off0000f55b.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF55B 10776 bytes
SHA-256: ae23994e85de1e54204458bf813fad773dd3c00561bcbcce233a272da6922422

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