Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 b26a1358476df55b…

MALICIOUS

PDF

87.2 KB Created: 2021-08-06 19:49:24 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-12
MD5: a95e3f3b0d1092ea680fcc02ec604223 SHA-1: 04ef95909aa85bf160ad2495faf78d7fd3afcc86 SHA-256: b26a1358476df55b2d3d947f1ff78cfc6d6c624e9962652d507286d5f2dbef77
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

The PDF contains numerous links pointing to compromised WordPress sites and disposable hosting, indicative of a link farm. The ClamAV detection and ML classifier strongly suggest malicious intent, likely phishing or SEO abuse. Although no scripts were explicitly extracted, the PDF structure and embedded URLs are sufficient to infer a malicious purpose.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9982

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://krisoc.ru/uplcv?utm_term=elapsed+time+worksheets+3rd+grade+number+line PDF link annotation
    • http://pocatellocampfire.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/l1r4fl41gd2dbksr7029vjc9k9/motudokaredozabu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://area100impianti.it/userfiles/files/mojan.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.ponderosafestival.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16079f73782d19---kalajesoxaniguzotozo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://asesoriagarpe.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160720732d2255---bafis.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://bezpieczna-strefa.pl/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/f2d3aa8f3121907c4c1502424fb4740b/22763605003.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://agriturismoilcolle.org/userfiles/file/xikiw.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://xn--9d0b102a6wc3y4a.com/sa_upload/userfiles/file/20210630005011.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://fastcomputer.vn/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/43b2cef7c9b702f15e876d9cf4bb2447/20910692370.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://frennphotography.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607cb1329721e---15222484120.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://banhangcongnghe.com/upload/FCK/file/zalamedexotepudoladef.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://hum-lucknow.org/test/fckeditor/file/kibitipe.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://psychotherapie-dr-albrecht.de/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16084bb1c0c788---79611126004.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://flycam.com.tr/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16083713352c45---gazugikekotegegovifog.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ncfouting.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a5327f62f6a---3065174810.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://spoilersmensgolfclub.com/clients/865201/File/70815947628.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.iycadana.org/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/qaija8tih8674f2rjr4c713ht1/puvamodujuviruler.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://anmoul.com/userfiles/file/remowotiv.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://nhakhoaanphuoc.vn/uploads/files/80854639379.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://sutphinsgermanshepherds.com/clients/21958/File/31960498732.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://pk.mo/userfiles/file/87857873518.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://barudan.hk/UploadFile/file/20210530060327603.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://fujiya-burbank.com/uploads/files/24479093465.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://kindliving.org/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/tmp/47130147791.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://masterok-kovka.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/33d009f7486f15a179e6cf362f444489/tifatexujogiz.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://medius.sk/userfiles/file/rinitira.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_off0000f19b.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF19B 11412 bytes
SHA-256: 5fad2fcafa880bdc45dcc9fb766320a60687e70757e4bbe94c6fd34d05f2c07f
font_01_sfnt_off00010bfd.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x10BFD 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_02_sfnt_off0001240f.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x1240F 16208 bytes
SHA-256: ca7c4277eb43439a34a39777532b30c707045349631ce63b8e50e55d44e3f5ab