Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 a26af56a17392a3f…

MALICIOUS

PDF

86.4 KB Created: 2021-09-23 14:21:59 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-26
MD5: e996faa607f387a5942e30bbd38fcfef SHA-1: 4e2bd7317ee2cd05c639a6dc77875121a6ee32a5 SHA-256: a26af56a17392a3f7a22cfa7d295c0983cfcbc15cca6ce9b06624a0aa92ffd8b
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment T1204.002 Malicious Link

The sample is a PDF file flagged by ML classifiers and ClamAV as malicious, specifically identified as a phishing trojan. It contains numerous embedded URLs pointing to various domains, many of which appear to be compromised WordPress sites or disposable hosting, suggesting a link farm designed to redirect users. The primary attack pattern involves luring users to these external sites, which likely host phishing content or further malware.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9974

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 https://coretry.ru/uplcv?utm_term=can+you+see+who+viewed+your+tiktok+page PDF link annotation
    • http://romento.com/uploaded_files/userfiles/files/80664366140.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://greenworx.eu/images/uploads/files/24957842758.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://intproplaw.com/admin/uploads/file/32163135347.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://halobysciton.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16136e5328ada7---21473276207.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://shinserviceodi.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/79e38ed4fffdb1706b93a27b33c19e97/visopuvas.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ymmicro.com/files/files/65892173545.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://agrotehholding.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/a126e3423e05281e48ad9f4f69a93c5b/toxagadanumixi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://esportenerd.com/app/webroot/ckfinder/userfiles/files/85468147025.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://happyjourney.webtrails.in/ckfinder/userfiles/files/jatefirodanurirobadab.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://profix.fr/ckfinder/userfiles/files/wopefovanunalafewoxub.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://thebrownbag.vn/upload/files/tidatod.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.nationaalgolfcongres.nl/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/161383f6666e1f---87906778860.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://librojuridico.com/aym_images/files/dawodogujafokodopafusinij.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.reliancecareuk.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/7c2eb9330b9ed03213b0cffdf315c584/4931900795.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://formapolis.it/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/34e21391c05d1b3f570c8fec8466e0b7/kafegubedi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://emanuelmlevin.com/customer/3/d/9/3d947ad6ce2568d98b832ccf5548371bFile/9844449578.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://quartierdete.fr/uploads/fckeditor/file/jatutotamaj.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://moderator.lt/components/com_mijoshop/opencart/image/data/files/zesijixa.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://abofahed.com/userfiles/file/90883026283.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://avesta-hmora.boj.se/uploads/userfiles/files/wutizexo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://smartcookieacademy.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16136ea9632667---3214608144.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://sumangold.net.vn/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/oe89snocnp5phdjjenktemh2dm/67578736791.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.hgbehringer.de/img/files/files/xuxepisadumabuge.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://fkjz.cn/upload/files/2021/09/202109202237548860.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://moma-restaurant.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16134930bdab64---mosuruden.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_off0000ea22.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xEA22 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_01_sfnt_off00010234.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x10234 18556 bytes
SHA-256: e4a95151b2d90bd91ae8a1ae53a9bb5c1635eda79865eefc49641c74374318a0
font_02_sfnt_off000131b8.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x131B8 11116 bytes
SHA-256: 88d21d0540d30c05050cdb4f697caab0e0e4f937e2cc5625b2414fea6f485b80