Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 4b26ab4008ff17b6…

MALICIOUS

PDF

85.6 KB Created: 2021-06-25 14:30:24 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-08-25
MD5: 06824e3a808ad31dc590f84171dcc30d SHA-1: c6ff7b2fd2428c883e6c11b708484b8dbc8a75a7 SHA-256: 4b26ab4008ff17b64e3507e4699083181c806bcae3ea706bd74e53ad7c1a5069
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

This PDF was flagged by multiple heuristics and ClamAV as malicious, indicating it is likely a phishing or malware distribution lure. The numerous embedded URLs point to compromised CMS uploads and disposable hosting, suggesting an attempt to redirect users to malicious content. No scripts were extracted, but the PDF structure and URL patterns are strongly indicative of malicious intent.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9990

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://oniceh.ru/uplcv?utm_term=life+drawing+artists PDF link annotation
    • https://drmarlenebothma.co.za/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1606c8a38c97d1---jelazogaki.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://segurosjdd.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/qgs1fvh17ni94oec1ekaevo232/xodadiwipuruze.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://aeskulap24h.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16079ce34ce25e---27212542046.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://doitsolutions.co/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/c23340c8d384d96af6bdf4fbc2004eee/83295932113.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://egyptsuntours.com/userfiles/files/nodetonuzoluj.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://englewoodgrassfarm.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/e5305a730bf3dccaadefd230a73ff1f1/51145409296.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ifacemount.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/7ivr6pt6qoh8iu1q2ddr7md1e5/24561387776.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://rmdschoolandcollege.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/ob5de4jibv20m2j18b1ulg1ke4/zazevenuxafeda.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://thedreams.cz/files/87426023397.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://redwoodpwr.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/guaq0q8ulo024e87p6h77s1pq3/63986942352.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://colorfusion.us/admin/images/file/lagujebomimotope.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://bukvoznaika.ru/ckfinder/userfiles/files/muraborujedoloda.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://lushexperiences.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609dce8121573---sonagufivesibogigodu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://brandnewgoods.net/userfiles/file/33272139425.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_off0000eecb.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xEECB 16828 bytes
SHA-256: 4abc2cca5160238ca867b7888fbaeab816b1e2027838dcdbe37c2200e2129337
font_01_sfnt_off00011a5e.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x11A5E 10408 bytes
SHA-256: 9935d5bd5891fe714e9575866f2d3e4300803d70ff44d22e142e2f532c84de85
font_02_sfnt_off000131e5.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x131E5 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1