Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 ca26f7698cc0445d…

MALICIOUS

PDF

79.5 KB Created: 2021-06-06 05:16:45 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7) First seen: 2021-10-12
MD5: 8fde9279a098bf63896c354409400a47 SHA-1: 6806c5100f15b287ed9aecd98d054dea7259dc65 SHA-256: ca26f7698cc0445d8c32610a2fce635fc05edec603d760ae236ce6d837516be2
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment T1059.007 JavaScript

The PDF document exhibits characteristics of a phishing or malware distribution lure, as indicated by multiple heuristics flagging it as a link farm pointing to compromised WordPress uploads and disposable hosting. The ML classifier and ClamAV detection strongly suggest malicious intent. While no scripts were explicitly extracted, the presence of embedded URLs and the nature of the heuristics imply that the document is designed to redirect users to malicious sites, potentially for further exploitation or credential harvesting.

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://medvor.ru/uplcv?utm_term=download+drama+korea+boss+and+me+sub+indo PDF link annotation
    • https://kodeac.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/adfo6or1bitc9ur30tl9ep9j9k/jalatixavupozexir.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://takiminsahada.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/muu3kjdjd80uf1u6g0385b48pj/68226155523.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.sunarmisir.com.tr/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/v75bcr0dldg3j735rrjh05nb17/jonezomeweruba.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://biomassasia.net/data_ed/userfiles/file/sasul.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.airportlimofortlauderdale.net/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16091d6e645cc0---18104103871.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.eoluk.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/bj9fqmlkrc93dr5u02eh79omko/56398328496.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ahcxdq.com/uploads/file/061707508791.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.sixteengrams.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/asnsmkmnkg8n8p572bqv21dhj8/vapuromew.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://mission4recruitment.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160b1e02b1803c---pututapuwupasegaketemik.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://voolabs.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160894d4099d98---wefuratidejorirotaf.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://uaqbakery.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607b10f98f3b4---loginalakiwevovixapovelok.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://isgsrl.it/images/file/woligopavewimozubusud.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.expo-hotel.com/english/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16070327fd705f---64809584133.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://clinicacomciencia.com.br/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160ae199c6cb7c---likumekezatozafiw.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.projectorrentals.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1606f86eb57097---wunizakupidago.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://flvirginia.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/b70577df0a526e75d6dc80b1ac40aaea/18669869533.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://aliencosmicexpo.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160b6d53e4157b---20524333292.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.oasipizza.it/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a49b809ed8c---kixatukedixopisebipesup.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/In PDF document text
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/typedesigners.htmlIn 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_off0000ea33.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xEA33 3688 bytes
SHA-256: 14a7b2d89283690d24a9f0a5f0fc26e732338264526b7a8b9f355294838792a2
font_01_sfnt_off0000f755.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF755 5264 bytes
SHA-256: e9f8cbc660eb5d0a9db89641a7b7eb75611f5e1cd31ca5398e5d49664f89ee9b
font_02_sfnt_off00010938.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x10938 10784 bytes
SHA-256: c033e67a5ac558c5998a9111df8f6135f2dc748c87aeb8c7c61a30ffae9520a1