Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 926cee41f9c7507d…

MALICIOUS

PDF

96.7 KB Created: 2021-07-03 06:44:34 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-08-25
MD5: 2fc2f3ac4e31346b6262f040dc82198d SHA-1: 8d1085b7db7c77b9386db32ae314347430eb485e SHA-256: 926cee41f9c7507d7994d36a1cb7951e4db88b72f29684a1770c97d0cb642959
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF file contains numerous links pointing to potentially compromised websites and disposable hosting, indicative of a link farm used for SEO manipulation or to host malicious content. The ML classifier and ClamAV detection strongly suggest malicious intent, likely related to phishing or malware distribution. Although no scripts were directly extracted, the structure and URL patterns are consistent with techniques used to redirect users to malicious sites, potentially exploiting vulnerabilities or delivering further payloads.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9957

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://chambredhotes-savoie.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/pefuju.pdf In PDF document text
    • https://www.mercedesbenzofaustinservice.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a064b8dc4d3---11877159400.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://myhoorayhealth.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/nrtngcbs2dfr6974mhbm0p34k1/nazajibipewusom.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://studioassociatoemc.com/userfiles/files/wefuduj.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.wikiwebagency.it/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/3d700ce059af6d00d1cd6610f78a6633/nipodot.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://genesislighting.net/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/818593c97cec27dd98b50c53229f6688/dizerawutuwedikibubir.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://abwlanham.com/uploads/files/xadebe.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://sanidom.pl/img/file/walunepo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.truesdalepainting.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160ad905d8348a---90663624121.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://agsposure.org/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/55015c2bf024d5fb618512723641e797/26208413788.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.helpagesl.org/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160abdae22ce96---rewodisafimanafamune.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ufnk.fr/app/webroot/files/file/68053103788.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.americanapi.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a648c94d06b---88748112706.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://quickvideo.nl/userfiles/file/67522403616.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.hypnotiseur.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160d21fc9566a0---subawikof.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://calmoinc.com/upload/editor/file/45810394462.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://sequirk.ie/userfiles/file/54567919588.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://goez3.com/10005001208290177/ckfinder/userfiles/files/zedebage.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://amkboiler.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/mqtd3sa6je25vsi8tdua801rns/86501948272.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://shrmivirtual.org/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/9558802a5f6dd8a0444105c88865bca6/51192004738.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.agrosystem.com.tr/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160d94aa6ae0c4---xovumulola.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.allterra.group/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/c954877a2ae1f4c1e78c3fa12f8fc809/72188512122.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/1eyvgo/aqOO/~3/YTWXjIUwRh0/uplcv?utm_term=administration+of+medication+pdfPDF 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_off00011a01.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x11A01 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_01_sfnt_off00013213.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x13213 16532 bytes
SHA-256: 82c7edfcae3ce2bfa2afca2552d6ab6f2403848cfaaf420cb326c6d4687dda44
font_02_sfnt_off00015d0a.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x15D0A 10716 bytes
SHA-256: b7857959255a29abf7a349ff6a832323bcdc81542be025d254537d091c87c4b6