Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 26e5b750025a9696…

MALICIOUS

PDF

89.8 KB Created: 2021-07-27 03:18:54 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3)
MD5: 828f60e5468075201f2ac1f9868c5f1d SHA-1: 0623c9220a08b38da42ac1d4b2b77a90e061d4aa SHA-256: 26e5b750025a9696a526abd1340cfd41bb61e466f53b5dc990c8ab485449db01
164 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment T1203 Exploitation for Client Execution

The PDF document 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 presence of 'sales commission letter template' in one URL and 'invoice or payment language' heuristic indicates a lure for phishing or financial scams. ClamAV detection and ML classification confirm its malicious nature, likely exploiting PDF vulnerabilities to deliver a payload.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9972

Heuristics 7

  • 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.
  • Fake invoice / payment lure low SE_INVOICE_LURE
    Document contains invoice or payment language paired with an action verb — useful context when combined with link, macro, or attachment indicators
  • 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://zivotzaokny.eu/res/file/40896906049.pdf
    • http://homenet-spb.ru/userfiles/file/42840315928.pdf
    • https://www.proctoloji.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1606d11b844aa5---sedoduguvegewoteradiveda.pdf
    • http://az4group.com.br/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a70e533eed7---34111163549.pdf
    • http://anandtouristcorporation.com/uploads/62348500846.pdf
    • https://earthideasawnings.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160c7acc2744fb---duneriwetudogosimexeko.pdf
    • http://woori-tour.kr/FileData/ckfinder/files/20210619_E80ADBDEC3FF3B10.pdf
    • https://mattweidnerlaw.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160819d966565f---dusara.pdf
    • https://fobiy.net/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/bfeb445ab1d1191f725524cbfc311d62/85861262579.pdf
    • https://www.d-table.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/c34711a5f929044d4b9cca974b386417/lunepul.pdf
    • http://travellightnepal.com/userfiles/file/96939054250.pdf
    • http://agriturismocorteerbatici.it/userfiles/files/32382958262.pdf
    • https://alzubidi.com/userfiles/files/89318039304.pdf
    • http://amouage-salon.ru/admin/ckfinder/userfiles/files/kipinij.pdf
    • http://dogninja.com/userfiles/files/zenudanixevidujob.pdf
    • http://bascobrunswick.com.au/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16084a88cb6521---denegamojunufidazamumuna.pdf
    • http://www.kzhep.in.ua/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/cai6nbpi2fcfeur07cb3agqpl7/60740275471.pdf
    • http://wahiclassof69.com/clients/874294/File/tokiwojevapo.pdf
    • https://rhodium.vn/uploads/news_file/35698521175.pdf
    • https://precisionautoandac.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/ced36e2d09484ec50f1a048204d7813f/69711619967.pdf
    • http://diversecityuk.com/userfiles/file/19434811441.pdf
    • http://xperion.hu/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/7561798cfde01dc0695f1c33bc222da1/xukutomotalubo.pdf
    • http://attlas.center/userfiles/file/79373700401.pdf
    • http://moyamoya.center/images/hand_uploaded/files/92988056796.pdf
    • http://mvhs1964.com/clients/2/20/2030ff4f331b14c2016b95997514b7ac/File/mumegekafuk.pdf
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/1eyvgo/aqOO/~3/PmAiG5ZyT-k/uplcv?utm_term=sales+commission+letter+template
    • 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_off0000fb79.bin
3b2c0572b0356e3b6a3b33576c9d5bed6c2f4d596ab472c8d163cdf23dc49f68
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xFB79 17012 bytes
font_01_sfnt_off000127c8.bin
db3f697f6fac8d12e6adbcf50b13f3fec6bcbf9d31701033fd73a200d9e8bea1
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x127C8 10608 bytes
font_02_sfnt_off00013ff5.bin
9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x13FF5 16792 bytes