Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 014944bff7c34e2f…

MALICIOUS

PDF

83.4 KB Created: 2021-09-19 14:20:06 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-11-24
MD5: c5b204ebd772bd1044da313b7ebbb4f8 SHA-1: 6c9d346eb09e35f189be0cff453b13018e0088f6 SHA-256: 014944bff7c34e2f9d70f8dd38031fee1c83b87efba3c7e617f77ec4cd6b5c77
196 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

The PDF contains numerous links, many pointing to compromised websites or disposable hosting, indicating a link farm designed to redirect users. The ML classifier and ClamAV detection strongly suggest malicious intent, likely phishing or malware distribution. The presence of 'cmd.com' in the document text, although obfuscated, hints at potential command execution, possibly related to downloading further payloads.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9974

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
  • LOLBin token sequence in document text high SE_LOLBIN_RUN_COMMAND
    Extracted document text contains a Windows script/execution tool name (PowerShell, mshta, cmd, rundll32, regsvr32, …) within 220 characters of a dangerous flag, command verb, or URL. This is a visible 'run this' instruction in HTML/PDF/RTF lure bodies, or — in macro-laden Office files — the macro's own string-pool entries appearing adjacent in extracted text.
  • 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://myphamlulanjina.com/upload/files/sifelebafebewuf.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://worshipedia.net/sites/default/files/file/rejenowaxez.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://colokit.thienlonggroup.com/Images_upload/files/pavirinuvanuwurezebowiba.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.ijdsir.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/20211821577.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://generalaudit.pl/eurostyl/photos/file/13031801175.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://wuxihemei.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/20210903_142000.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://inprovitcolombia.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/sevasurewi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://elandtour.com/FileData/ckfinder/files/20210908_B8723AB58A0D9D10.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://dongytueduc.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/pj56msi9c8bm6l9ibsfnlgprpj/40808235552.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ls12368.com/userfiles/file/66529074642.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://brenna-ski.pl/userfiles/file/fikisafokimete.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://protetyka-lublin.com/images/wyswig_images/file/7407792538.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://birutelorasin.com/contents/files/45047952766.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://safeabortionnepal.com/userfiles/file/zoledan.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://stadion-zarya.ru/ckfinder/userfiles/files/ruvetinodigepekixeburena.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://balashixa.inhome360.ru/admin/ckfinder/userfiles/files/65402605596.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.louthadventures.ie/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16140d35eaa377---41038825750.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://yuanyoujie.vip/userfiles/file/13041882174.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://mrhobbscoffee.com/images/uploads/file/5957554241.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://aryaayur.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1613797c1babca---28552579403.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://smsalumni1971.com/apadmin/uploads/userfiles/files/13257024638.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://agsposure.org/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/7764495ddd1e73010d7bc055caaaa6c0/94841768593.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://qdcmd.com/data/files/39138702651.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://oticonshop.net/ckfinder/userfiles/files/76369030660.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/skout/mBVl/~3/FevRqgeaUVY/uplcv?utm_term=cross+dj+pro+free+apk+downloadPDF link annotation
    • 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_off0000d888.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xD888 20580 bytes
SHA-256: 95b1149d4d94244418b58b1f0293b5f5cb781afed8bd3f75caedb6d895f489a4
font_01_sfnt_off00010f17.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x10F17 10640 bytes
SHA-256: fe6b6b9c307d0d86ac6c05f4738147b45771bde4323242395acb641c088fce2d
font_02_sfnt_off000127ab.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x127AB 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1