Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 f26d843764685876…

MALICIOUS

PDF

87.0 KB Created: 2021-09-07 12:24:48 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-27
MD5: dfc553987777ab0aa0e61ad6e84d2eb7 SHA-1: 8897c636ccabaf037b9adfc54ac2af830d2f6650 SHA-256: f26d843764685876ff5e3273b4f1592a9fb387ed03e3831f159a9b08f365da2d
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment T1204.002 Malicious Link

The PDF file was detected as malicious by ClamAV and an ML classifier, indicating a high likelihood of malicious intent. Heuristics identified it as a link farm pointing to compromised WordPress uploads and disposable hosting, suggesting a phishing or SEO manipulation scheme. The embedded URLs, while some are marked benign, are part of a larger pattern of directing users to potentially harmful content.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9976

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://blog.crowdly.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a051f942243---513411281.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://vtvxm.vn/userfiles/file/tazagurodaropifavifud.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.kalirich.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/a3eo4cqb1e52nc34en6ool6dj1/rovulutavowepu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://iziusb.com/userfiles//file/62869609073.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://onlineticketreview.com/images/file/wufuj.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://defrokatilai.lt/images/files/mobijexituruvitu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://mega-stainlesssteel.com/uploads/image/files/2952943353.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://aimara-bg.com/userfiles/file/xurepifomuvuna.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://caribemed.com/userfiles/file/40106030264.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://adbrf.com/files/fckeditor/file/9130440836129795f64bc6.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://xn--42-6kcdlkbomh7beggito5p.xn--p1ai/userfiles/file/61557066472.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://worldkelo.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/f7ec7e7356690953c10569e2ba62d969/97653915921.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://svetplus.com/userfiles/files/nuzalisemadobip.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://artetendasud.it/userfiles/files/nakoxufififatil.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://florerialafloresta.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/85931764944.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ingegneriarossi.it/userfiles/files/manepizel.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://mirsistem.com/depo/sayfaresim/file/93292026050.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://shinyjewellers.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/eh5fv1e1uod9u2qd7l371l9k9a/79815717027.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://pensjonatagat.pl/userfiles/file/73566906960.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://studiomarazzi.eu/userfiles/files/mivifurozusaki.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://mobile-translator.eu/app/webroot/media/files/29932665101.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://n3ss.ro/ckfinder/userfiles/files/datiritodefixixijutima.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/skout/mBVl/~3/ngfLrbzwjls/uplcv?utm_term=harrison+bergeron+t%C3%BCrk%C3%A7e+pdfPDF link annotation
    • http://perfecturology.cafe24.com/upload/editor/imagefile/90208899164.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_off0000eae9.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xEAE9 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_01_sfnt_off00010300.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x10300 11240 bytes
SHA-256: 9de90d31156207c88028e3ac116d2acd0e3f6cada85d502d9ef688d4b9d01df3
font_02_sfnt_off00011cf4.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x11CF4 18768 bytes
SHA-256: a8170f3d8abfba19dfdb29f937a62d9d2fd0ac6e8f1b6d0e131271cfd24ea5b8