Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 26fac4684b38b127…

MALICIOUS

PDF

85.4 KB Created: 2021-09-20 01:16:27 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-27
MD5: f3f262ac19ffa51d2ec329187a2f6534 SHA-1: 3e6a104583fdf3af2d275c46b9a70ddfba096484 SHA-256: 26fac4684b38b127523e7e48b8437e04463279303a9457501a511a9e9d3c3938
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment T1204.002 Malicious Link

The file is identified as malicious by ML classifiers and ClamAV, indicating a high likelihood of malicious intent. It functions as a link farm, containing numerous URLs pointing to various domains, many of which appear to be compromised or disposable hosting. The 'PDF_SEO_DISPOSABLE_LINK_FARM' heuristic specifically highlights this behavior, suggesting the document's purpose is to manipulate search engine results or host malicious links. The presence of external URIs and the overall structure strongly suggest a phishing or SEO spam attack pattern.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9952

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://catamma.ru/uplcv?utm_term=best+android+games+with+high+graphics PDF link annotation
    • http://ingenermarket.ru/userfiles/nozamajiw.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://robodom.si/files_vsebine/vusozeripikutiz.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://divanich96.ru/admin/ckfinder/userfiles/files/9456631316.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://unique.global/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/8f8e43e21a298c393554a04c51032b9f/83400577529.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://phuquytravel.com/nguyenvanlinh/files/16978901244.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://xatrbio.com/userfiles/file/34950197025.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://cocoal.com/uploads/file/57206426920.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://doellefjelde-mussemarked.dk/images/newsmail/file/vowiluxepegitomuvisezo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://gogreenonline.net/userfiles/image/fckeditor/file/83854792775.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://driscollandgibson.com/images/edit_images/file/nuseboma.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://liderzy.natura2000.pl/imgturysta/files/bavaxopajav.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://soportedevida.mx/ckfinder/userfiles/files/53735931283.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://mavachhaiphong.com/upload/files/22012827359.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://tsg-edinstvo.ru/userfiles/file/dubotoligasewodozikavaga.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://grani-tonkogo-mira.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/c08844393a7ce0824371cd5119d3e494/83033365612.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ssatripoli.org/userfiles/file/68275073651.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://boldogelet.hu/media/nujogowab.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.primalegal.eu/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/qv0h8k4nbu9rnp2499kd91frb4/jedigujogu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.mtpartnersfl.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/161352f54a4778---pagujo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://heart-calligraphy.com/uploads/files/202109150602003882.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://colokit.thienlonggroup.com/Images_upload/files/dadote.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.asiacoservice.com/file/files/vigimudi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://nacyc.jp/Upload/file/43244503226.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_off0000eb72.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xEB72 11056 bytes
SHA-256: 11db0c9521eabe25261e6a250c7a96082eb5000d6145a2b11065515710bf9139
font_01_sfnt_off000104e3.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x104E3 16720 bytes
SHA-256: 75e7ee2e233069604e33a5cc3bf6de2e17f44775156f4d3686a6a7be8edb6417
font_02_sfnt_off00013016.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x13016 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1