Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 e26c56576ea24b6f…

MALICIOUS

PDF

79.7 KB Created: 2021-09-07 06:28:07 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3)
MD5: 3f81d6850774e5bf18dcf42e6252f47e SHA-1: 5f158fe29edddf8071270fb08ca06e6e700b0d72 SHA-256: e26c56576ea24b6f998d877db7e264555cf4317159ed18ad5b8ae09b1c9f2615
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

The file is a PDF that exhibits characteristics of a link farm, with numerous embedded URLs pointing to various domains, many of which appear to be compromised WordPress sites. The ML classifier and ClamAV detection strongly indicate malicious intent, likely related to phishing or malware delivery. While no scripts were explicitly extracted, the PDF structure and embedded links suggest an attempt to lure users to external, potentially malicious, content.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9981

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://www.telsercom.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160807e96dc5c4---vugimavoselajiselu.pdf
    • http://dlmberatung.ch/userfiles/files/sawumajetiferur.pdf
    • http://dsagco.com/Upload/file/68901764819.pdf
    • https://autosaloncenter.com/uploads/file/juruxodefanebuxupasabiwu.pdf
    • http://elmbbq.com/uploads/files/kufozunimazojidog.pdf
    • http://staging.impactredevelopment.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608d6a215aa80---8085977351.pdf
    • https://www.hed-endo.hr/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160c4cfe35330b---58164449349.pdf
    • https://mannoorpally.com/uploads/file/puridatoradowusa.pdf
    • http://happyhanool.com/ckupload/files/15382780182.pdf
    • https://accuratesearch.com/userfiles/file/92795540275.pdf
    • https://www.avenueroadadvertising.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160b643230a8c3---20702076669.pdf
    • https://suksesunited.com/contents//files/17770611532.pdf
    • https://serviceservice.eu/userfiles/file/89613351093.pdf
    • http://xn----8sbpvg0afdbe.xn--p1ai/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/bgen2396auc9mlvb00k7i1bsq4/gekewufufevafif.pdf
    • https://lanhcongnghiepthinhphat.com/upload/files/25042597494.pdf
    • http://industrialdevices.in/uploads/rewawevotunurepowixuruda.pdf
    • https://noukos.gr/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160989a9acedd0---seduwexenuzov.pdf
    • http://konstruktor33.ru/app/webroot/files/files/dajukubojoxujibumekabom.pdf
    • https://nceptionsolutions.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/b91529326ab82d19c46f175b32475ff3/37705550857.pdf
    • https://takiminsahada.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/ep8qsm4vm3qa0vefdfv6kn99fb/48749692314.pdf
    • http://nirmalamathachurch.org/cms_uploads/image/file/pidudaz.pdf
    • http://yatros.ro/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1606f520302d37---74494097426.pdf
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/skout/mBVl/~3/6naE_Nh8_CY/uplcv?utm_term=acoustic+guitar+songs+for+dummies+pdf+free
    • http://www.w3.org/1999/02/22-rdf-syntax-ns#
    • http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/
    • http://ns.adobe.com/pdf/1.3/
    • http://ns.adobe.com/xap/1.0/
    • http://ns.adobe.com/xap/1.0/mm/
    • http://ns.adobe.com/xap/1.0/rights/
    • http://dejavu.sourceforge.net
    • http://dejavu.sourceforge.net/wiki/index.php/License

Extracted artifacts 3

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
font_00_sfnt_off0000d3bc.bin
9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xD3BC 16792 bytes
font_01_sfnt_off0000ebce.bin
018de8b090fe5aa34941417a07f44bbef0a1064301f633de5e63f96aa6b416d8
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xEBCE 16828 bytes
font_02_sfnt_off00011767.bin
3f09642dd3b37fd1d647b85d4a3abd7804d790f574080596964ec2fbd9fa3b7f
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x11767 11000 bytes