Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 e26292d458f281bd…

MALICIOUS

PDF

68.2 KB Created: 2021-06-21 05:41:55 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7) First seen: 2021-10-07
MD5: 980584d6edf2e58506b24879e7281365 SHA-1: 0970e66303b13a33b503c342330568fb15546447 SHA-256: e26292d458f281bdd4edd6e840ea2dc6e2943e0f0c496b83bd524562072f6e14
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF contains numerous links to external websites, many of which are hosted on compromised WordPress installations and appear to be part of a link farm designed to manipulate search engine results. The ClamAV detection and ML classifier strongly indicate malicious intent, likely for phishing or malware distribution. The embedded URLs suggest the document is intended to redirect users to malicious content or download further payloads.

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://catamma.ru/uplcv?utm_term=old+man+and+the+sea+pdf+download PDF link annotation
    • https://balance-global.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/gi992d47kut59te1q44s1523nj/75431580661.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://alllegaltask.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/d1gttu8tg4tpa7j2qcujo4ilpu/fizopozazekakesukobetog.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ecbpolska.pl/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/08404050a5daca014403f6a2b6352ac0/23380647472.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://regalcabs.co.uk/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16076ed8d88a2b---97456594672.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://completecollegestrategies.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/6602655c1b8ec5be0f4098490e0d9270/sajujipunifewirogisa.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://canadianrelocation.net/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16071f1f22046c---kofesejezozuxefewime.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://binarbaidequipment.com/public_html/userfiles/file/tamulakuvekitodenibera.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.olympussverige.se/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/mv2r4ifagug49lj158n7nboboc/wejanov.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.gasserbush.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/d07d6d62ce150e4115af737a9d2fb672/fevim.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://gearforfree.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/4hteprvt4mmlbrv2l0fv23o9jn/xakuzujatoxakelolomaj.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://freedomhypnosisnyc.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/e5386ec275d60fdaf4b15d99501b633f/sebojiba.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://holocaustresearch.pl/nowy/photo/file/57236065633.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://bearings-home.com/userfiles/file/depinizuferitisa.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://georgekoldun.com/var/upload/file/63724942903.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.kadinlarsitesi.org/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16092b9daf3955---nanuxefagemepudanewudised.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 2

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
font_00_sfnt_off0000cd3e.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xCD3E 5304 bytes
SHA-256: dc4fd8cb5685eebdb9bb5deaf137713e21d4846ee4463b127ee985500d121d31
font_01_sfnt_off0000df32.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xDF32 10752 bytes
SHA-256: 8eb5b4ba8f401f631dbd93df3f0e33b4498c48820aebd2b98af1901065ea3a20