Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 8d26eb2b34a16e25…

MALICIOUS

PDF

79.5 KB Created: 2021-06-10 04:42:51 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7) First seen: 2021-09-16
MD5: 394c4a721e316790ad70648973194ed1 SHA-1: d2d31fcda030eb67ae33aeadbe8e1eaf3d239581 SHA-256: 8d26eb2b34a16e25e7a0602d9c46f3f613b864f05c463d591873530872099a6d
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF contains numerous external links, many pointing to compromised CMS upload directories, suggesting a link farm designed to redirect users to malicious sites. The ClamAV detection and ML classifier strongly indicate malicious intent, likely for phishing or malware delivery. No scripts were extracted, but the structure and URL patterns are indicative of a malicious PDF.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9998

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://pistant.ru/uplcv?utm_term=spy+car+unblocked PDF link annotation
    • https://www.andeanskyline.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609e88cf2a674---67155286206.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://utilitydiscount.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a30eef7a541---pujenawazozuraxudimeta.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://baigeleather.com/userfiles/file/lalifevuter.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://photou.cc//ckfinder/userfiles/files/60287647262.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.propertyfilevault.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/63fe4af4f078a70172d0d1f7e00163ce/kedavarufuzokabom.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://hud101.vn/webroot/img/posts/files/lamanagefijesij.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cgeminfos.ma/upload/file/kagejuk.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.advids.io/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16086fd8476535---45823132511.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://objetivovender.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160984a4212d4b---forapejotuzavebazerodu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://mimpiindah2.com/contents//files/2324462387.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://airconbank.com/upload/fckeditor/file/33925368462.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://paintingservicesonline.ca/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160b5264e0c85a---66068140523.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://forcechicago.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/543b69339c5868a8a57e65b123933e3d/48263608949.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://agrotehholding.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/8899787973fcfc4f8b1632bcb8c45727/wolumanobudewusavukoxuno.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://mtsskzy.com/userfiles/file/kidilaveworodekanoni.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://vegas-shop.net/uploads/files/25263524623.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://gingerwooddesign.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16096e4f315f07---bosonejeresitomagexuror.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://mosoptagro.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/eb88b2a0e29c73a3887fb14acefb958c/29671668966.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/In PDF document text
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/typedesigners.htmlIn PDF document text
    • http://www.daltonmaag.com/In 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://scripts.sil.org/OFLIn PDF document text

Extracted artifacts 3

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
font_00_sfnt_off0000ec4e.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xEC4E 5052 bytes
SHA-256: 5565dba06edfbce633dd80e7f17a321659de1555b883e11736f87159d01a7d06
font_01_sfnt_off0000fd7b.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xFD7B 11344 bytes
SHA-256: 576aabee54b4099f9e4865f78c2375b5164c75e8708d219b8a477e45dc744f89
font_02_sfnt_off000122a7.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x122A7 4324 bytes
SHA-256: cd94ef65598b1866d0653cdd88243d989fd81359c0e770c2d3a4858f1c2f6d34