Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 2726bb04afc84889…

MALICIOUS

PDF

85.0 KB Created: 2021-06-29 20:44:59 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-08-25
MD5: 47f95d13d17da6aaeacd4ed7e095dbaa SHA-1: 0f6a0a93ef0626c4c9d6a36da10d58ea7729c2ba SHA-256: 2726bb04afc8488968c1bf4e23b6185069d1f39237a592282f7a51a153cf87aa
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF contains numerous links pointing to compromised websites, many of which host other PDF files. This suggests a link farm designed to direct users to malicious content, likely for phishing or malware distribution. The ClamAV detection and ML classifier strongly indicate malicious intent, with the primary goal appearing to be luring users to download potentially harmful files.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9951

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 https://californiaoptionsrealestate.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/924d82901434b0133223cd4da21b5412/vesoxatosodame.pdf In PDF document text
    • https://nowbali.co.id/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607ef846134b0---10338810615.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://laser-arena.ch/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160886f0f93fe3---ragusogagesixuwu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://studio5r.com/userfiles/files/79487716698.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://aisef.org/uploads/userfiles/file/file/37499976191.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://trsbarriersdirect.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/v8fgto582u4kf5kd7tbeucdb93/fokupivav.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://kennyre.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609a31ea10dbf---zorokis.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.sunarpazarlama.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/ibtme1p9redeb1t8ibie6c48e4/zefaledomonupe.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.hcibatiment.fr/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609985d810518---zupaponiwonidagomutek.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://22743333.com/userfiles/files/wavuvaropamedufawiniwu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://weblative.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/nr41nr5ehgkcigtr3u5cqab5f8/wufazef.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://theopenhouseclub.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/bd185595e98634fccd51af5d3b2bbcb3/danobif.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://agribusiness.pk/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160aeac4a69a7b---52390234009.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.goldenplanet.dk/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160b6e47e6bfe1---nuxox.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://jaunimodienos.lt/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/bvd50vp0j9pd100kcsanllb0r0/57143595709.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://iamtimeshare.com/userfiles/file/surower.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.sport-konyv.hu/userfiles/file/98824714469.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.tanyadantus.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/61bd303f3671bd243d329d6edb8ea210/22055350338.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://clinicaveterinariasangiacomo.it/userfiles/files/89004721886.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://xn--80aamdqpfpr.xn--p1ai/upload_picture/kajetike.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.demetagras.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1606f1c5076aac---99904059399.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://nhaban24h.com.vn/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/j4m0n7jl82kkbolmfa7r9qvsmd/botupumetupopofadoniko.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://saraelv.no/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a0dd2648e3d---mevubowoza.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://jogforbigt.com/clients/6/61/61f7a61d17da296148a50ccd59c4a139/File/80673346110.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/skout/mBVl/~3/LPIa9PGmDLg/uplcv?utm_term=office+2007+download+for+windows+10PDF 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_off0000e9df.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xE9DF 16700 bytes
SHA-256: 5826b2c5c0cba789f9004b611abf322e8b947cdf1b77e44f3c500df42d94bddd
font_01_sfnt_off000114fd.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x114FD 10824 bytes
SHA-256: 254b95e2b6c8e62187d9f39f9bdce7c9eee8aea5c79c4d0d797c281157fa7106
font_02_sfnt_off00012e4e.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x12E4E 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1