Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 6c26652392fca760…

MALICIOUS

PDF

82.1 KB Created: 2021-09-20 00:05:46 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-11
MD5: c2d26a3ffabc1ff709e746a4363921cc SHA-1: 0bf1a8e708f4f67edf8eb17b4dce2b0de23c7ad3 SHA-256: 6c26652392fca7606ec36eb32df211664d10cb06fa84c4c10920fb30ce387163
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

The PDF contains numerous links to external resources, many of which are hosted on compromised CMS upload storage or disposable hosting, indicating a link farm designed to redirect users to malicious content. The ML classifier and ClamAV detection strongly suggest malicious intent, likely for phishing or malware distribution. Although no scripts were explicitly extracted, the PDF structure and URL patterns are consistent with techniques used to deliver second-stage payloads.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9981

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://sheenabusesandcoaches.com/userfiles/file/78236081451.pdf In PDF document text
    • https://spencershaulageltd.co.uk/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/9f192bc9c403ad16000e06762b480fb8/nujinewanixulu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://malbreil.com/userfiles/file/bijuna.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://kasand.com/userfiles/7196799686.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://perleyparish.org/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/2e8e6f60b98cfa2bd1b51d66a5a2f774/xixoxisowekiposi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.badischer-kunstverein.de/ckfinder/userfiles/files/43368279823.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://caogenzhiben.com/filespath/files/20210914122242.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://fresh-j.info/images/uploadedimages/file/25526013698.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://pumarecovery.com/userfiles/files/xezowagenupevalezuvure.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://tangneylaw.com/admin/images/file/libodaloravarikufobavo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.sgestrecho.es/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/161414b866f8cb---xutozepa.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://patanamachine.com/imgUpload/files/37945116625.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://microsolder.hu/userfiles/files/javedelatenite.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://icmasistemas.com/userfiles/files/3017732764.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.cascatai.com.br/ckfinder/userfiles/files/sumujevesowekar.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://kolaykanal.com/userfiles/files/73714778811.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://elenasteele.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1613f7c3dd009e---gexedigovo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://eqonetech.com/upload/userfiles/files/38447012048.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://jeevandeepspecialcare.com/ckeditor/ckfinder/userfiles/files/wosomegegob.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://msdoubrava.cz/foto/images/file/49599381933.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ardechetendancebrut.fr/userfiles/ardechetendancebrut.fr/file/43929346080.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/1eyvgo/aqOO/~3/1xuhb7AK25c/uplcv?utm_term=happy+death+day+123moviesPDF link annotation
    • https://rt9.rspo.org/ckfinder/userfiles/files/76540277564.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_off0000d5b2.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xD5B2 10924 bytes
SHA-256: 94b64cb5944ad05b0d1538f2ee77e7297b15d5118a5fddd9610efd68aa02eb36
font_01_sfnt_off0000ef20.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xEF20 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_02_sfnt_off00010732.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x10732 20084 bytes
SHA-256: b4e498ee54664f807c771161a72f64067401ed7b754d5f0a81d23578b32b441a

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