Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 26f9a92d70eac6aa…

MALICIOUS

PDF

73.0 KB Created: 2021-09-05 03:33:14 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-12
MD5: 39ae2c996fc418591c11957f8236333a SHA-1: 3e26c6a56f3fc256bed50fe07ec3efdf6e8d4566 SHA-256: 26f9a92d70eac6aa97ead27ac553e7bc5d085e23aae2d2c7350b440ec8049367
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

This PDF file was identified as malicious by ML classifiers and ClamAV, specifically flagged as a phishing trojan. It contains numerous embedded URLs, many of which point to compromised WordPress sites or disposable hosting domains, suggesting a link farm designed to redirect users to malicious content. The presence of these links and the overall structure indicate an attempt to lure users to external sites for potential phishing or malware delivery.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9975

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://fskyok.com/uploadfile/files/69185976051.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://www.olympussverige.se/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/7p1j7kl76q0grjtdu4vt7sv76k/59139803172.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://folientastaturen.pl/_data/file/10611756109.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://atenngo.com/admin/sites/site/documents/57872587449.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://kwik-it.ru/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1606d52fce5974---22807593746.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.kissdocs.com.au/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16089eb292a79f---31198514610.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://stiglic.sk/userfiles/file/5234919918.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://familiehollander.nl/images/uploadedimages/file/ketapefebaguwigoxepij.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.reparaciondebomba.com.ar/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/naksm075bptg71g02ecpkmavj2/55747480211.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.scmphotography.co.uk/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608777cb1084e---30824901639.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://anthonyjcincottalaw.com/customer/3/d/9/3d947ad6ce2568d98b832ccf5548371bFile/leduxini.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://maria-galland.ru/files/file/mufeminuwiwurux.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://benetalent.com/upload/files/24008546771.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://masterref.ru/editorfiles/file/73196180940.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://mesterek.net/tmp/93296070864.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://lukasikgroup.pl/Image/files/98345263374.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.audifonosdoshoydos.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160c2053e5d4db---69999130142.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://tcufroghouses.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160e81360c3568---jedusiluvokenef.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://anhuicrew.com/upload_fck/file/2021-8-4/20210804210057710753.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.thunderesp.com/ckfinder/ckfinder.htmlfiles/vezunafofiges.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://clarkhigh72.com/clients/3/34/34275c7d49a174b5f6cf03bf5966da6c/File/68726873923.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://selectwifi.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16085bfa590dad---40749389629.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://tznjl.com/userfiles/files/61787516179.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://sl1971.com/clients/5/51/517263f0417f9379c67e6eba0e0bdfe8/File/38046750198.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://okna-dvere-online.cz/media/upload/upload/file/21496637482.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/skout/mBVl/~3/6naE_Nh8_CY/uplcv?utm_term=product+manager+interview+questions+pdfPDF 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_off0000b9ba.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xB9BA 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_01_sfnt_off0000d1d1.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xD1D1 11316 bytes
SHA-256: b24109c60c9582d34fd3bc54469076aa7ad5374c5ec2ea9628a3217dd957cbdd
font_02_sfnt_off0000ebf9.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xEBF9 15920 bytes
SHA-256: 7cf2e3d117177b933a525461ae7d26689c37ac9b4b6da5ff68908a37f89f311d