Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 c26ef74c1307b48b…

MALICIOUS

PDF

90.2 KB Created: 2021-07-22 00:28:19 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-26
MD5: e6333d3f53aba2da4e554a042727f718 SHA-1: b8b800ece0f8344b74b6b8974aa4cc8cadbd3cd8 SHA-256: c26ef74c1307b48bda46426d0af48c392bc93c262f14e76639cdc220e9350d89
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF was flagged by ML classifiers and ClamAV as malicious, indicating a high likelihood of malicious intent. Heuristics identified it as a link farm, with many URLs pointing to compromised CMS uploads or disposable hosting, suggesting a phishing or SEO poisoning campaign. The document body was unreadable, but the presence of numerous external links and the overall structure strongly suggest the file's purpose is to redirect users to malicious sites.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9990

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://akifkasaboglu.com/esatfisek/images_upload/files/35888281777.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://becro-plast.hr/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607326e86b9e1---tolinipixulutin.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://sce.tw/uploads/files/60b4cbc4cd018.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://kvkumariajnkvv.org/singhania/downloads/file/sunipavubivowi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://greyquotient.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/9e752fdd2cfb715067d69896f79b5c04/supimofiborepupikuwevog.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://aydin-elektrik.com/resimler/files/dekakebalevivamo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://monkey-do.net/userfiles/file/47489353530.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://tuhocxuatnhapkhau.com/uploads/ckfinder/files/zevomesafevuditeladugupo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://angkortaxiservice.com/userfiles/file/48507249221.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.sunarsurdurulebilir.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/9fodbc1hnm1toca7b10ml1djm4/45690036063.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://grodgolf.com/clients/f/fd/fd83fa7079552abb47853a85229f74c1/File/zopuvetowi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://niezapominajkowo.eu/userfiles/file/898581341.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.shipsupply.co.mz/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608983308dbef---51147210288.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.cocochan.com.pk/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/5557c28ca7dfc886fd6c6d7a6581c90d/rajijuto.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://friluftsgruppen.se/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160985ee30b0e4---93721636707.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://easyreturn.store/userfiles/file/kokisedisigadupogi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://goez3.com/10005001208290177/ckfinder/userfiles/files/vejiwewi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://gsmontaggi.it/userfiles/files/damuwusijomu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://zonazero.es/userfiles/file/85015663710.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://jjinline.org/file_upload/file/fexafewupewepuxabijepimez.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://phsbulldogs1966.com/clients/8/87/87911cb64b10f66d93d15f7b6e22d365/File/vuvasovetujaki.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://kme.pl/global/app/webroot/uploads/file/16227242696706.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://inlikeflintlogistics.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160880513be904---95477478925.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.rebranded.tv/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607c08b81d686---gokogiterofowupar.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/skout/mBVl/~3/ngfLrbzwjls/uplcv?utm_term=street+fighter+5+multiplayerPDF 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_off0000f87c.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF87C 10836 bytes
SHA-256: 4de26fd1101779a2d6cbda08181d8d39e90c47e3e298b5ab7af8c7f5e13f730b
font_01_sfnt_off0001118d.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x1118D 18720 bytes
SHA-256: 7646613e03b95f8190ffa62722b8b3e805158c33e6ff3c8cbe5ece4603cc4a2f
font_02_sfnt_off0001426a.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x1426A 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1