Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 e26f9e76d9cff9ea…

MALICIOUS

PDF

82.2 KB Created: 2021-06-28 23:42:16 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-08-20
MD5: 597f2695773ad2cf46f3b3e9003c6afb SHA-1: 597beef7bb0451a13e1ec107bd69e7ac864bf5a2 SHA-256: e26f9e76d9cff9eae2f29f31c7961d23ce304f4d45be1f4e07cda565ae5e47fe
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

The PDF contains numerous links pointing to external websites, many of which are hosted on compromised WordPress installations. The presence of a link farm on disposable hosting and a specific URL with a 'utm_term' parameter suggests a phishing or credential harvesting attempt. The ML classifier and ClamAV detection strongly indicate malicious intent.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9955

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://coretry.ru/uplcv?utm_term=form+212+revised+2017 PDF link annotation
    • https://webmodeli.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609298fd4e399---kalerogilatutixox.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://law.com.sg/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/27075e0939cbdb99da4c99fe0c0bd52d/97671632941.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://careersourceokaloosawalton.com/files/public/zogamubizuzevagulamanilej.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.holderit.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160861cc589132---63248770728.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.hollyskauaicondo.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608c94a4aa495---66472978427.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://levin-dent.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/7eaeecaecf1f05f109b3576c83d84099/jewoxaxijorasor.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.traveltimevipp.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/055775b9ed3749fa0df2bf91246241ab/24070917315.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://booklandbooks.com/userfiles/file/finumixunalebobideki.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.drop-lok.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1606e36a5b4687---59825880847.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://vibrosystem.ro/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609f14c3b93cb---11320918675.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://willtorock.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160adb06b17a7e---62741708754.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://zamokugrofa.sk/admin/fckeditor/file/demusozote.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://unosms.us/userfiles/file/nuzomomogesamiroda.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ivfnna.gr/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/d6e157fa7527498ae4aa867c98fdbce7/nurijurigujajifo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://alhouti.com/userfiles/file/rigixeniluneve.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://kakvkusno26.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/54b6eb959ee9bc876a39542c40ae5743/xonopibiwe.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://masini-de-ambalat.ro/images/userfiles/41988211821.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://epiphanych.com/images/file/kebivetigukenowazuf.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://jclifeschools.org/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/8d8a86aafa5d4f18c87a7bfbf4296cd9/larugoruxofutaxixo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.qbuildsoftware.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/c5896c2ead904aec3685b8aeb5f7a8c0/52197269553.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.naturapreserved.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160710b2c0a73a---40214948547.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://liebherr-tr.com/userfiles/file/fipowenuzofupevikumo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://hfdjet.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/8b53f9b33d1a68e1d7d3580e5751a428/suxoxusanobativuva.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://lightingsystemscol.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/20ee53f3ba6de645b7d0a5dee3cc3219/gitizujegubileso.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_off0000de1b.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xDE1B 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_01_sfnt_off0000f632.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF632 10384 bytes
SHA-256: d113979bf97fe1b0b56c930925792e1de404f7f68a8735bc1d3397b238c160b5
font_02_sfnt_off00010dd2.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x10DD2 17084 bytes
SHA-256: 3bc2889f18db5feaa8cc9d6bcbb84b221dc233d367d9c006c8de9eb3347d19cf