Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 dee26fec827c644d…

MALICIOUS

PDF

88.1 KB Created: 2021-06-25 16:42:06 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-09-13
MD5: 4c17cdb647449ec11c65b7ddf5d95347 SHA-1: b29ecd47bcc756b3c0733554e140db3f5cf20f7a SHA-256: dee26fec827c644df47c7ddc5bf76c62f791f9468df31be6f5bbdb634368b883
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

This PDF file was flagged by multiple heuristics and a machine learning classifier as malicious, with ClamAV identifying it as a phishing trojan. The document contains numerous embedded URLs, many pointing to compromised WordPress sites and disposable hosting, suggesting a link farm designed to redirect users to malicious content. The presence of these links indicates an attempt to lure victims to external sites, likely for phishing or further malware delivery.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9992

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://medvor.ru/uplcv?utm_term=100+million+dollars+in+rupees+in+crores PDF link annotation
    • http://www.esthemed.ch/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a9f2e4eddfe---babokijaxebenibajeda.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://restavracia02.com/userfiles/file/18924893498.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://maxim-catering.de/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/2l00bvv4ndp4djus4a02c0j1p7/59773834502.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://kitapkapla.com/upload/ckfinder/files/tepofig.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://edgewood1962.com/clients/2/2b/2b25cacec04995aba37d275b9c35b4d1/File/numewefodidoroduxipuze.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.jesuseslaroca.org/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1606ce7c653a5d---14651558847.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://adoriantarla.ro/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16071c91d8a88f---41746475867.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://rintrans.com/files/vejemovizolaxuzifabu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.1000ena.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160aa9a8ea86b8---61491101826.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://law.com.sg/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/9201ee4b00ae2412f2c4b08a3c06caba/57486697945.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://aldea.work/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/230fcb9cdf4ad01d8ce1ffea4d0c0a3d/pinosu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://botorka.ro/userfiles/file/15015452284.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://timatey.kz/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/vscktnc716jaoo556svbrrehs2/jomago.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.sunarmisir.com.tr/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/6chm7bgl4cfg00deamhio38346/watagadafuxatufufij.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://discarga.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16070ce85f2038---radurene.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.hollyskauaicondo.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607ab87be7f44---vugasevosobodopuzarolubu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.chicagoalphas.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1606fe607f134a---lolomedupa.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cbolean.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/cjfufqplvsdovvlh0ikh7atgm7/babevozex.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_off0000f54e.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF54E 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_01_sfnt_off00010d65.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x10D65 10752 bytes
SHA-256: 52f06a0f5f98cb3990e8473455a614a33b6d9bfae9fce9813ef852b9164169c8
font_02_sfnt_off000125fb.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x125FB 17260 bytes
SHA-256: 3542c2262bb4deaabf3b076b12e87e15a1d81ce17704d2105a5dde5164c6f973