Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 14238e1d0e3c7dcf…

MALICIOUS

PDF

86.3 KB Created: 2021-07-07 12:50:02 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-09-17
MD5: 6030eab7dc8e620956f3f7577282f2ca SHA-1: 79424168eea1437bede3faa69d3581dd829ff2ba SHA-256: 14238e1d0e3c7dcfc4263228520f7b73d694785636dfc8aaba50872659247edb
164 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF file was flagged by multiple heuristics and a machine learning classifier as malicious, with ClamAV identifying it as Pdf.Phishing.Trojan. The document contains a link farm with numerous URLs, many hosted on compromised or disposable domains, suggesting an attempt to redirect users to malicious content or downloads. The presence of a 'download button' lure further supports a phishing or malware distribution scheme.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9952

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
  • 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.
  • Visual download / call-to-action button lure low SE_DOWNLOAD_BUTTON
    Document contains a call-to-action phrase ('Click here to download', 'Download Now', etc.) — low-signal unless other findings point to a malicious workflow
  • 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://veglifekc.org/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files//45875309996.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://travelport.pl/userfiles//file/19549782416.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://akproauto.net/nbloom/fckuploads/file/wodobevifi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://evabody.ro/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160767be3bf6d8---dilib.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://waypl.pl/upload/File/budemoge.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://mko-yug.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/8e43a210fb43a9d6c4433bacdae6f9b3/kuxara.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.thebetterinsurance.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a8294c2a8ab---84178186944.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://emauto.lv/index/images/up/file/zotomatimip.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.sunarmisir.com.tr/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/qgiac86q5csbq3flqklkcfg3r7/80329217222.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://brandweeramsterdamamstellanden.nl/userfiles/file/larowakowipuro.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://readxyz.org/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/2d3c778da49f484256368da9c785f960/26672430533.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://gsoam.ge/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607beb2ec75eb---94870183191.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://caacoding.net/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a930883375b---6753467310.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.agrosystem.com.tr/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16095d4bdd1c75---92115401662.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://frennphotography.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608ae259ba707---darafudu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://e-pisanie-prac.pl/famprojekt_z_serwera/images/file/65821799614.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://adbetelparaguay.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/ca8fe7da1073ff3575888f8150e29342/37994614986.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cleaner.pl/userfiles/file/8016338774.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.bewegeninarnhem.nl/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160928e5f45fab---furekasapotedetawawizew.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.stamfordtaxis.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/aktnit79ufmfo66cs9qg8rdhrg/noxazebitem.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://tehnol.ru/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160b52e1fbedbb---49316384290.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://shosholoza.de/file/tekexolo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.darvidproperty.com/news/file/xukeguloguzajusagiraxa.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/skout/mBVl/~3/cv9VXjIrmdE/uplcv?utm_term=class+9+the+sound+of+music+question+answerPDF 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_off0000eddd.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xEDDD 11272 bytes
SHA-256: 38550e3ddf10ac37f8b2a0bacbb19efa93fdb92c6ddfcbd689c55e45f6e42a33
font_01_sfnt_off00010802.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x10802 16860 bytes
SHA-256: 290c74785a7eb99b74f3cf8fee80d7dd259712b9ceee5364d2bf6ed5ecd93cbb
font_02_sfnt_off000133ec.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x133EC 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1