Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 2d26c92dcfc0fb1b…

MALICIOUS

PDF

84.4 KB Created: 2021-07-14 10:16:46 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-09-13
MD5: eb95359f8e6a47c9cb186e4bbce2c009 SHA-1: d3f623b5b071f4c9427f163bf696506a3af25313 SHA-256: 2d26c92dcfc0fb1b50e5d44a676fcdef3e9a0b4c7b2fd4a6cffbbff56d706243
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

The PDF document contains a large number of external links, many pointing to compromised WordPress installations. The ML classifier and ClamAV detection strongly indicate malicious intent, likely for phishing or distributing further malware. While no scripts were explicitly extracted, the PDF structure and link farm behavior are consistent with malicious document lures.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9964

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://krisoc.ru/uplcv?utm_term=what+is+manual+incline+treadmill PDF link annotation
    • http://dok-vo.ru/userfiles/file/koradugujoxumudev.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.growxponential.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/7b9mamu0lrnpt6um4p1cp5funh/xoxonefazodijeg.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.projectorrentals.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160843e778f7b9---guvilujomuvamoxa.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://sip7.pl/autoinstalator/sip7.online/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/c9325dacaf1b7794c8e1e48492c85039/6363257346.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://choiceenergynetwork.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/6fa54e52bff1e431d53cd81e0a54d51e/89117263682.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://opalbiosciences.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160bf9a9bb44f6---59910961276.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ifacemount.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/5rq7ua7mge1iojpia6nn9vt9q3/xesiwozisu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.holderit.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607eb438d771b---juxivi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://hgindustrial.eu/userfiles/files/25201395253.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://carthink.org/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160985f0475d0a---64437014652.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.finanzanlagen-honorarberatung.de/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160b81ac18eec2---korabakavivusobabesidolo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://willtorock.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16093959861787---velijiwapefiwebeziwixipep.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://fontanarosaserigrafia.it/userfiles/file/vovubar.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://automsystem.com/UploadFile/file/20210616124639272.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://pima-alarms.rs/slicice/file/60239533287.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://creationstationdance.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160e3141e46076---23770936685.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://smartraoptics.com/fck_filemanager_upload/file/suvamutujibizovutojoka.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://camberwelltaxi.com/survey/userfiles/files/nedegedutefagijogex.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://lightspec.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/b1975106d4148200536e2872eb573018/38352860466.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.abaco-engineering.it/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160878d4244ef6---gesexinujodekozepid.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://halvani.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608b1d323bc6d---toxukapekuzutexiz.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://fantasypartyentertainment.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16086e6a6ba899---vewufiwapurej.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_off0000e8b5.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xE8B5 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_01_sfnt_off000100c7.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x100C7 16312 bytes
SHA-256: 016ea0b9598803082c3b56b2fcce65dbbbd70a8fc1ea7762699a742c984f2045
font_02_sfnt_off00012ae0.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x12AE0 10608 bytes
SHA-256: e5d99e01fcbd5eab620d047e229f8532fe3fb421add72c88068f910bebfc2bfa