Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 4e26a28e34e75615…

MALICIOUS

PDF

83.7 KB Created: 2021-07-19 23:45:17 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-27
MD5: be4f49924726abae65b2d720262e1289 SHA-1: 69c18cc5cfc92e9c856e1fff523a6e92f507f089 SHA-256: 4e26a28e34e756154ea4e43432732e43e5179dfcd7f1d113eb0f142e97636009
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

The PDF contains numerous links to external websites, many of which are hosted on compromised or disposable domains, indicating a link farm designed to redirect users. The ClamAV detection and ML classifier strongly suggest malicious intent, likely for phishing or malware distribution. No scripts were extracted, but the structure and URL patterns are consistent with a malicious PDF dropper.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9833

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://szymonadamczyk.pl/uploads/fck/file/kexaremigodudamexutenalo.pdf In PDF document text
    • https://alcc.vn/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/6ld1dl3atr1bf99p2usoblqevb/rebuvifugogosa.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://betentour.com/sites/default/files/file/povogoke.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://szao-spb.ru/images/news/file/waselufuwurazonor.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://vdgairconditioning.nl/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607c49eb78040---jutavuzurumidepikaribigoz.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://claphamjunction.com.au/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/7612b7c514ded1f347033b298473da6c/dajidinofidimubomakes.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.sunargrup.com.tr/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/gu2q0kc6kubqbvhkngdajiim04/darimiwakodavopiwulosu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://3dprofi.net/images/uploads/file/dofenikivubip.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://bookatowncar.com/userfiles/file/piwelepiluxogovatagi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://albawadiroad.com/userfiles/files/90260710071.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.adelaarenergy.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/pfkkva7mqb3gu25hfi0lca4qos/23581525936.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://wanyuantemple.tw/userfiles/file/pulalufan.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://hopkinshigh1988.com/clients/75739/File/19974588700.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ukdirectremovals.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/697599aa3a15fd449f8c9ce33222203d/xoloj.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://bascobrunswick.com.au/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16079ff5ad27a1---66350870057.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://j1medical.com/uploaded/file/sewetoxabi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.fattyweng.com.sg/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1606cb7a0d051f---33952759434.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.itbaloch.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607189c93d78e---96853436657.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://structurecreative.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160bd9db597440---62997383187.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://salkim.com/userfiles/file/vudaxap.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.hed-endo.hr/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160aa2878aa997---kojofaj.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://lorenzonimmigrationlaw.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609cba979413c---96522340367.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://dioceseofniranam.org/userfiles/file/75866320192.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://kazenergy.kz/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609a9e6f1810d---43679393082.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://starwindows.ie/ckfinder/userfiles/files/47651382459.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://apoc.com.au/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/639afee2c87c4ecec0833178d5e87e52/kovezasog.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://trsbarriersdirect.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/8k6js8mc9br0n1nno3te84a9s6/dolevawitu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Uplcv/~3/LPIa9PGmDLg/uplcv?utm_term=festival+tickets+for+salePDF 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_off0000e397.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xE397 17572 bytes
SHA-256: 9528ef408f18bdca5a67ab748b58e0d2ebb2183f2843fda191c5f256d951eb69
font_01_sfnt_off000111d3.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x111D3 10360 bytes
SHA-256: 7a3f3cefe10254a7019d3c3b7199780a10f2dfa220858fe7fc2b3cf6ae917046
font_02_sfnt_off00012968.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x12968 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1