Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 14134ccd638f3a12…

MALICIOUS

PDF

160.0 KB Created: 2021-06-15 16:15:50 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7) First seen: 2021-09-18
MD5: d43b374b5d54d3f9f1dc84cbdbe138bb SHA-1: d747514979a40c84f53c26a57a7c018735d73889 SHA-256: 14134ccd638f3a128061b8658d1051ba2032fa683097c038b6b227eb43f5ca66
154 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

This PDF document was flagged as malicious by ClamAV and an ML classifier. The file embeds a large number of external links characteristic of an SEO link farm, many hosted on compromised CMS upload directories. Specific URLs and indicators for this sample are listed in the indicators section.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9544

Heuristics 5

  • 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
  • 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://queure.ru/uplcv?utm_term=goldstein+mechanics+solutions+pdf PDF link annotation
    • https://www.aserspa.net/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/p2m8la33rt4ts60o9pcb2ek4dr/walovibemetagulijil.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.mkkdigital.pt/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160aa40075b7b4---60230499072.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://jyotiacademicpress.org/uploads/file/84112986663.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ehblending.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/31a09d5eab5e574d9c0a77a9bfa15ce6/59022225670.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://hillcountryawningsandsunscreens.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16077b09e4a1d7---30829623618.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://na-nule.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/6vcim9nd67q2g4ggkh85imdgu7/83179419496.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.ecostroyservis.ru/File/serajipeduzovirigedud.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://gift-founder.com/archive/upload/files/warusudilazijufadu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://liniagdanskzydowo.pl/files/74802556286.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://pabausa.org/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160765e7b5b627---30776697659.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://jjinline.org/file_upload/file/97113443041.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.kasekimi.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16081b0a53af6e---muwovolezuku.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://structurecreative.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160c0f0b12a99e---93357351045.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.mkkdigital.pt/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16090a10e12371---wupadurezijet.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/In PDF document text
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/typedesigners.htmlIn PDF document text
    • http://scripts.sil.org/OFLIn PDF document text

Extracted artifacts 3

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
font_00_sfnt_off00021878.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x21878 5328 bytes
SHA-256: afe7c9eb69fdf18ecd7470cfd65a175aec11d9baac505b86c303794b31fe092d
font_01_sfnt_off00022a75.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x22A75 2464 bytes
SHA-256: b8ff947da8a4f27dcfce1c01ff1f9c2bc064e1843b94aa46c52fa674d447ac59
font_02_sfnt_off000234c0.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x234C0 27316 bytes
SHA-256: beed952f46a6e887006cf0f7458cc6a8f2c0f9dc4da83847e441d90e26a5f1ee

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