Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 114f6c8385269790…

MALICIOUS

PDF

83.1 KB Created: 2021-09-12 03:38:11 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-12
MD5: 17621a64c523bcb704df394e39c47e6f SHA-1: 68c3853de76faf1459ee91ceb8a79f83c53dcbef SHA-256: 114f6c8385269790f2aa486ba25bbaaec82fcd9cca87d8e2a8e182ecdf4c7f03
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

The PDF contains numerous embedded URLs pointing to various domains, many of which appear to be compromised WordPress sites or disposable hosting. The ML classifier and ClamAV detection strongly indicate malicious intent, likely for phishing or distributing further malware. The presence of external URI heuristics and link farm indicators suggests the primary goal is to redirect users to potentially harmful content.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9974

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 https://philabc.ru/uplcv?utm_term=how+to+remove+voice+search PDF link annotation
    • http://vinhthuanvietnam.com/upload/files/benimupizelidesitudamazi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://luxartparquet.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/3d308209081f6f709581fff09a803673/40460230866.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://livestocktool.com/d/files/40039931043.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://vwtint.com/userData/board/file/rewedemigamaxat.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.kowel.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/1631395490.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://fipjp.com/userfiles/file/fawulevojulor.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://korovin.org/site/img_ufiles/5024937621.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.studiolegalefusimorelli.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1613c203bee31f---jelasexokitilub.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://circuitvietnamcambodge.com/hinhanh/file/romumebovegofin.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://techlan.pl/files/file/27818639083.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ebiocell.com/uploadfile/file///2021090207321367.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://graylegalservices.com/customer/3/d/9/3d947ad6ce2568d98b832ccf5548371bFile/87375901242.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://seroinstitute.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/0f6ed3eabb7372a3b157e1be35f0d985/wujudowemozuzipevol.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://girisimhaber.com/uploads/file/sifubusubize.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://africareview.in/userfiles/file/70076421881.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://for-rent-antwerp.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16136fca03a2dc---86536033987.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.iieng.org/editor/ckfinder/userfiles/files/87116776453.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://asijskepotraviny.cz/files/file/22069890256.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://albawadiroad.com/userfiles/files/gelile.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.isnb.co.uk/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/b47a1b21a134a0910a8205538fb8bd89/zegiwidifogeseresimuguzok.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://goactive.hu/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/684f6411faabee0a3419fb53a6def3af/josalukukudulelivezi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://canvangdientu.com/images/file/wagonezuwaxusuxinezovo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://tailormade-sales-marketing.com/userfiles/file/solixipijifogapokewipudis.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://doanandieuduong295doson.vn/namthuan/images/news/files/96958236043.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ahknchem.com/upload/files/wokob.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_off0000df2b.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xDF2B 18488 bytes
SHA-256: cb0581c6d5946db0859ae8fea124b4cc1e150d1a72821c0bee65a59f935b89bf
font_01_sfnt_off00010ec3.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x10EC3 10488 bytes
SHA-256: 35ba99f1528d4f29b6d4c1915a52284ab76d4570a4d2be1cdcbf5f82ea3cf26f
font_02_sfnt_off000126af.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x126AF 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1