Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 26e982ca551c9e02…

MALICIOUS

PDF

86.8 KB Created: 2021-07-20 11:11:38 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-05
MD5: fd9808c288ad7cd4f8c7e0d81e0b11be SHA-1: 026620a907e26a5fad229766de386d146cc28423 SHA-256: 26e982ca551c9e0206cd81539294ea4b18e741b071828be73d637086ef764167
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment T1059.007 JavaScript

This PDF was flagged by ML classifiers and ClamAV as malicious, specifically as a phishing trojan. It contains a link farm pointing to multiple compromised WordPress sites, likely intended to host further malicious content or phishing pages. The PDF itself does not contain executable scripts, but its structure and embedded URLs indicate a malicious intent to redirect users to potentially harmful external resources.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9942

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://schreinerheusi.de/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1606cbad640b46---347806587.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://coffee33.ru/archive/file/tunirurix.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://jockmurray.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160afd07d2b4ae---65046577676.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://advicezone.org.uk/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/bm1pbll3hp60plkstps72m5u6l/42094094295.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://loan-financial.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/5ca51f91210522029cc917ede0b7ef68/10220443431.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.iqubz.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160e69ef5d20b0---3919377387.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.kbstephens.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/b588eb825e801412850ffa3903ebca7e/12270034972.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://abapaposentados.com.br/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a67da6df0ad---mevebivena.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://asu.com.vn/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/5u2cftdj5g29erv6ii29riu0d6/83882432040.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.neslihanonur.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/9cf74f8d56b25bcd476899d388a66d79/bipanix.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://foire-fromages-et-vins.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160e07ba20f40b---gunowelonijik.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://alexanderkanevskyartistbiography.com/clientMedia/file/63034537564.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://almoheetmanpower.com/public_html/userfiles/file/95852712411.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ljhalls.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/35caddf73b29fe6df702c35d1cf15350/89823869954.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://alsharqcc.com/userfiles/files/zikimefezenekafurivik.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://joyfool.art/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/960f2c3c05213511e7e78a7673c624a6/gipedawebajapiwomodinux.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://itaindustrial.com.br/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a90ad89c8f8---2652875687.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://aven.su/userfiles/file/10967888667.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://lienlacanien.com/img_pages/file/riwijisimezokakeg.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.musicmaestrodiscos.co.uk/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160b1bd96ea397---zigifalojedodamif.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://lisahyatthealth.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a4e915d4cb4---rizugala.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://dakotaterritorydevelopment.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/64004638252.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://natyabio.com/uploadfiles/2220747171.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://lamaisonducoeur.ca/upload/editor/file/zetivakefatovojoxo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://regenerativetherapyforpain.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/526b12ca612296e6ee34d4c1d7d0a802/61223326756.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/skout/mBVl/~3/cv9VXjIrmdE/uplcv?utm_term=random+trivia+questions+and+answers+for+kidsPDF link annotation
    • 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_off0000eddb.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xEDDB 17664 bytes
SHA-256: 0184c9bde72b8d84055781fec9db3fb4492ee54483a8ce215ac0e9dab88bb527
font_01_sfnt_off00011bf1.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x11BF1 11004 bytes
SHA-256: a6aa6d2b9fb2121bef0bccb54c87daf19fa89412bbe4873a9b70373ee332e89c
font_02_sfnt_off00013565.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x13565 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1