Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 f26754ef1a3f4ab2…

MALICIOUS

PDF

86.3 KB Created: 2021-08-30 00:45:05 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-27
MD5: c532190bc259ee0e57c2ba25c9b7c2b1 SHA-1: e372a831eff6b1efdf7280043799a717c6165342 SHA-256: f26754ef1a3f4ab2bccf0194dd00880982c7312caf53d1eb9cc9c205ee62d0fb
164 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

This PDF file was flagged by multiple heuristics, including a critical ClamAV detection and an ML classifier, indicating malicious intent. It functions as a link farm, directing users to various compromised or disposable domains, likely to facilitate the download of further malicious content. The presence of a 'download button' lure reinforces the deceptive nature of the document.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9984

Heuristics 7

  • 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.
  • Visual download / call-to-action button lure low SE_DOWNLOAD_BUTTON
    Document contains a call-to-action phrase ('Click here to download', 'Download Now', etc.) — low-signal unless other findings point to a malicious workflow
  • 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://ketchas.ru/uplcv?utm_term=xgboost+with+python+jason+brownlee+pdf PDF link annotation
    • http://ateliergermain.club/sites/default/files/file/59279197279.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.hadlowsecurityshutters.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/2bde7740e0685969d56c2fa3748bff34/8143130787.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.hangmandigital.com/files/file/60087321049.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://hotstamping.pl/files/file/13464042580.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://bishopsalamatkhokhar.org/userfiles/file/xewunusitepupilek.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://forkidsvietnam.vn/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/grsp7f1ufsic0tfktj2mhhpl9c/36154930398.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://izharfoster.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607cab3f5fa7b---sogoxozimokenedopi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://anhuifan.com/upload_fck/file/2021-6-6/20210606021255456330.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://goergenpainting.com/clients/0/0d/0d1038892961fdbf96b6a8e7e8daca8f/File/dadagobajinu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://howardsteeves.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/2540b0ec12853793771bde460ed6f544/zuzekuwomewibag.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://dabien.co.kr/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160756d21d437c---97364026954.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.advancedevents.ro/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160e5c64f01a82---fimugajowo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.sudoku-cool.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/83986765984.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://jamoncup.es/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160c1ae9b32159---48631037967.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://unibeauty.com.br/ckfinder/userfiles/files/lakisuke.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://simon-daulte.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/nojalesazexowe.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://wwpokebar.com/uploads/files/ruvalogofoxuradalatuma.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://pepinieres-soupe.com/userfiles/file/nepoxo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://adwokaci-pila.pl/userfiles/file/kilolerafuxik.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://propbrains.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/srve8uapcp0h0vpmi1cpc6fcl1/41640497876.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://sztarmedia.hu/_user/file/moduxurod.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.vinoplaza.nl/img/upload/files/dedixida.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ketdoanbus.com/webroot/img/files/3873306591.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_off0000e6a0.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xE6A0 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_01_sfnt_off0000feb7.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xFEB7 11252 bytes
SHA-256: 42fcfc259054e8e5079dd4384615b6e4eb0aae9abc2f6f5396723fbb66bf40ad
font_02_sfnt_off000118a7.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x118A7 19136 bytes
SHA-256: 9bc7edbdfb200a7c1c32e14078a6bd2da40f435db2514a814165179f9b3cabf3