Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 14330bd0410a0b46…

MALICIOUS

PDF

67.8 KB Created: 2021-06-24 15:21:45 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7) First seen: 2021-10-23
MD5: 56ce401a632824dd5e3407d2ec806f22 SHA-1: 135addbfe397e74f754d42da64ddde6a3f01a836 SHA-256: 14330bd0410a0b4620289926d9998f2a6750f181e5d98253e29c2fe5a21c7133
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The ML classifier and ClamAV both strongly indicate this PDF is malicious, likely a phishing or trojan delivery mechanism. Multiple heuristics point to the document being a link farm hosted on compromised or disposable domains, designed to redirect users to malicious content. The embedded URLs suggest an attempt to distribute further payloads or conduct phishing operations.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9991

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 http://mmckno2010.zkosuchdol.info/files/vujotasusit.pdf In PDF document text
    • https://tlpnw.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/76e29316a704651a8410b7bf1e2c62fa/pewis.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://gursakaryahukuk.com/images/file/finimebopuzasatunu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.louthadventures.ie/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a39a19844ba---48787488012.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://trainternational.in/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608317b47de49---tixetemetijun.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.maarsehoveniers.nl/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609c2e9be4de3---33756558462.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.napariverinn.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/a65241421c55deb59071f7b1a2f3265a/53272953959.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ca1970.com/clients/10044/File/8543774647.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://aelma.com/sites/default/userfiles/file/kamomar.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://omomediacion.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/a3f48340fa4c0d053984673a52b49089/40584431051.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://elbag.net/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/5778568f85dfc03d35f0850bef9a23c4/7679197774.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://sk-developers.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607441fe88d3c---92108808466.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://antik-cafe-bergen.de/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608a3f2d742de---xebejoko.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.ideakliniksisli.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160c139ed9bae4---lagigoli.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/In PDF document text
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/typedesigners.htmlIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/1eyvgo/aqOO/~3/cv9VXjIrmdE/uplcv?utm_term=diskret+matematik+pdfPDF 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://scripts.sil.org/OFLIn 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_off0000ba20.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xBA20 5220 bytes
SHA-256: d3d78b82300258de879efec8e8e5594a7a5f5db364e159dacbc51464f29e1749
font_01_sfnt_off0000cbd0.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xCBD0 11472 bytes
SHA-256: 88979739eeae92d085c62e60d49bc92a41d95b8ad23eb55509b34f5c3f7a2198
font_02_sfnt_off0000f0a5.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF0A5 16204 bytes
SHA-256: c988415812f594187b0a0ed75dc52802e798e1695b49bd300f8412a65040a449