Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 826cb3aaf4fb6111…

MALICIOUS

PDF

84.5 KB Created: 2021-09-08 01:01:19 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-14
MD5: 884f83f46ceac1c10f9377c452d46cdd SHA-1: 4927cab67d4fe3cf5b2e6ce34caaf2c3eaa981f9 SHA-256: 826cb3aaf4fb611134fe65d765165978dec207721d7bb2970c4f29774105d4d2
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

This PDF file was flagged by a machine learning classifier and ClamAV as malicious, indicating a high likelihood of malicious intent. The heuristics reveal it functions as a link farm, directing users to multiple compromised or disposable hosting sites, likely for phishing or malware distribution. The presence of external URIs and link farms strongly suggests an attempt to redirect users to malicious content.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9974

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 http://mnwebdesign.dk/userfiles/file/wapekeniv.pdf In PDF document text
    • https://eyetracking.pl/userfiles/file/lonixadipagavatibugewo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.cenlajobinator.com/siteuploads/editorimg/file/tusuxuvazuzofesom.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://payassistinc.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160887bf26ac72---94025280020.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://noble-worldwide.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/23b5ffacf184e0d8b5d52a642ec665bb/22153649038.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://xn--80ackbssfuieecff0e8c.xn--p1ai/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/8mvocsc58tmjtrsso5fiq688h5/68935175864.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://raduzhniy.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16137e0cadf53c---1634846552.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.frontiermyanmar.com/sites/all/libraries/ckfinder/userfiles/files/vixabenonosovuvoduwefego.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://bascobrunswick.com.au/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607b9b41c096e---kupibe.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://rovetco.com/userfiles/file/49771038553.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://agro-partner.com/Image/files/63604498431.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://chongros.com/userData/board/file/mapoxo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.pharmaright.ca/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/rcqmjqoh6n5dkatj7ria6b9jjm/4445371589.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://suacuacuonthanhhoa.com/upload/files/mevamuvatidulikuluronox.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://horgaszvelem.hu/ckfinder/userfiles/files/80561166101.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://bettenbaehren.de/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160df7aa0ae9cf---lawuwepu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://fogathajtohirek.hu/fckfiles/file/72355170288.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://detaycopymatbaa.com/userfiles/file/59041856219.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://tehnol.ru/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16086ff56f2617---zupire.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://villamishkan.com/310renonew/front/images/files/89631524521.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://southfieldhigh.com/clients/a/a2/a202dccd336a30abee2d0a4364b9f07c/File/dukoropedizulevorif.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://dentherapia.hu/files/file/26904879021.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://wintec-samu.hu/uploads/files/rumimabidajexuju.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://vsetinrally.cz/userfiles/file/tafawoxasezakipura.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://softwarefactory.nl/images/file/69471591855.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Uplcv/~3/GLLx1DTH0VQ/uplcv?utm_term=2018+elantra+gls+manualPDF 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_off0000e49e.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xE49E 17948 bytes
SHA-256: 40464dd14d213069ba1c6ad6f0ad6c4a6121ed8862b5daf21e791f9324d05901
font_01_sfnt_off00011378.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x11378 10744 bytes
SHA-256: 6a99da0cd505fa7410aa1ec0be8fe1164d8f3565f2f8174ada078367c52fa678
font_02_sfnt_off00012c59.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x12C59 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1