Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 f26c49c546af0f2e…

MALICIOUS

PDF

83.0 KB Created: 2021-09-01 08:01:00 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-16
MD5: adc53cad835c37270b88780c86f10a33 SHA-1: d96fdb02ccce77dafde6bd2fb38fc8cb56664a8c SHA-256: f26c49c546af0f2eb4e58d70977fb6fa6faec2351fae059c44be80450cee3a8b
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

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 acts as a link farm, containing numerous URLs pointing to external sites, some of which are hosted on compromised WordPress installations. The presence of these links suggests an attempt to lure users to malicious destinations, likely for phishing or malware delivery.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9981

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://infrive.ru/uplcv?utm_term=how+to+mix+cyan+paint PDF link annotation
    • http://vietdubai.com/userfiles/file/dizitililezedak.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://primewestelectrical.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/0bf28e0fd0a19dc618a1d05e1c3ee1dc/muzoxeketemizawabonize.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://getlovebooks.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/fa60313fe822d9d3a3a094a24b3784be/47330975279.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://soechi.com/userfiles/file/87502337901.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://thebrownsfamilyreunion2008.com/clients/81208/File/dofogulij.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ifaistos.reality.gr/~triantaf/images/file/mitibinepuloxafenunotuzix.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://sf-tfi-pgu.uz/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/7a390c33dfb14e50c19e68aa5106a6f5/10982041020.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://paloaltospeakerseries.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/9f6b68bd7a3adf15b911f653c1c762cd/xizibujuzusategofisofi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://srp-galabau-rostock.de/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/9grpb6tmlarev1625d38ge2itp/49673811289.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://studiodebiaggi.eu/userfiles/files/34317689167.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://aldwalia.com/userfiles/files/13277146211.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://terravistahometeam.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/ae2114edc9a2d4b8bb4d451652813edb/37443859805.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://urbanconstructions.org/images/uploadedimages/file/kokugifijopiki.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://liga-stf.ru/i/upload/files/36713594303.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.zolmedis.lt/ckfinder/userfiles/files/24193072606.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://donaldnathanlaw.com/customer/3/d/9/3d947ad6ce2568d98b832ccf5548371bFile/10055755209.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://weinquartier.at/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/124d57b56e265ce3fff0dab5d373ef7b/51130735775.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.pianoszimmermann.com.br/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16083d8e7854f8---5920566572.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://binarbaidservices.com/public_html/userfiles/file/radurazedofawikitolipenom.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.pferde-fuer-unsere-kinder.de/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160750c14be185---30845707474.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://solarhomepage.ch/fckeditor/editor/images/file/dopowanibemovuba.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://advicezone.org.uk/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/0ifjdlu7mht6t4j1isctj6u4ef/vokewobak.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ageofwonders.buka.ru/sadm_files/devadanad.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_off0000e1b6.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xE1B6 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_01_sfnt_off0000f9cd.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF9CD 10384 bytes
SHA-256: 725d2d379a863eed57aa08ed1523e190e8086de2f7c2970b66f6830f00c01668
font_02_sfnt_off00011150.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x11150 17148 bytes
SHA-256: cc0c9583e89c2ec80bd8631ffb1a09a2888e31cc5397d807e32a1149a43d8c45