Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 014f1fd94b5ea375…

MALICIOUS

PDF

85.5 KB Created: 2021-07-20 00:11:36 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-11
MD5: 8d90446fc6824855e963e6fdcee04986 SHA-1: 5674627a9f58490423d641178d9c066082532631 SHA-256: 014f1fd94b5ea375ad2df0c90d34a9363ebc2af89c13f70d922339f5350782d3
176 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

This PDF file was flagged by multiple heuristics as malicious, including a critical ClamAV detection for 'Pdf.Phishing.Trojan'. The file contains a link farm pointing to numerous compromised WordPress sites and disposable hosting, suggesting an attempt to obscure the final malicious destination. The presence of embedded URIs and the nature of the heuristics indicate a phishing or malware distribution lure, likely intended to trick users into downloading further malicious content.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9951

Heuristics 7

  • ClamAV: Pdf.Phishing.Trojan-d2528dad23a95d95-d2528dad23a95d95-10044376-0 critical CLAMAV_DETECTION
    ClamAV detected this file as malware: Pdf.Phishing.Trojan-d2528dad23a95d95-d2528dad23a95d95-10044376-0
  • Clickable URI points to raw IP address medium PDF_URI_IP_LITERAL
    PDF contains a clickable HTTP(S) action whose host is a literal IPv4 address. Legitimate documents normally link to named domains; raw-IP destinations are common in disposable phishing and malware-delivery infrastructure.
  • 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://www.sosonomo.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/logegutoropenumu.pdf In PDF document text
    • https://www.straightmyteeth.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/f0aaa817f6203ddd2a92f24e1f8ceb93/87311109528.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://nadiadsa.org/userfiles/file/52190488006.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://accurateverdicts.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160b8778c19d7a---18451873140.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://dezsredstvompx.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/45c9913bc425b634877195bbda353c42/80262282478.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.plsok.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/18d15a85ffe5545a860ae60ad2c89923/fazarifopirikiberobe.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://beribuket.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/c7dcb4cac7a0ea9d5f3830094f1a523f/lalug.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://chieusangducphat.com/uploads/userfiles/file/wagenegilinoxol.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://vrindaindia.com/php/joseph/uploads/file/metojok.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://104.156.58.56/~web2inbox/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160e17c282472b---pagumafiliwabesev.pdfPDF link annotation
    • https://www.davidwoodpersonnel.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160c3f11bc2017---2550308316.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.albispanaderia.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/421128df950618266095a7c8e1e3132b/25148284627.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.hussco-steel.com/husscofiles/files/89551091469.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://prodesign31.ru/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160b19d140b383---26853171903.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://mfplus.ba/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160b42d674570e---powijanesutisar.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.kalirich.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/mots87ubifvbglieca5nrg0nn2/sutobegoxux.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://victorylimo1.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160b5e23721fdd---76410860565.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://sharidendesignasphalt.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/c5761efe0fbe971891e34259511207d6/39462980861.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ewinghighclassof1963.com/clients/e/e4/e4cb61fc1babc639533983e887b7272d/File/48678401967.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://scissortailfarms.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609c7a75357f9---xupafisoxega.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.xpresswedding.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a17f41b200f---31893076483.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://zhbiotech.com/CKEdit/upload/files/madigumatiluzifekib.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://pankalconstructora.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16076b9b16c7be---98033975958.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://telmeed.com/web/ckfinder/userfiles/files/6852007273.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://esteticarcare.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/69d35d389c883acc09d55023dd7c71f6/6679051761.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/1eyvgo/aqOO/~3/LPIa9PGmDLg/uplcv?utm_term=social+justice+research+academyPDF 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_off0000e909.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xE909 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_01_sfnt_off00010120.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x10120 10952 bytes
SHA-256: b6f4f9a486d841f5da083188c954b369dbc485cd3284c3c1650261a144b4dabc
font_02_sfnt_off00011a7c.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x11A7C 17708 bytes
SHA-256: 21fad76d067fa9fe2618b2799f582ebceff5d1ea2177748485cccd77eee14f7d