Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 14372ab6b9454e28…

MALICIOUS

PDF

82.0 KB Created: 2021-09-16 11:34:19 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3)
MD5: ab158efaec74f8aacc1875f9d5aac9c2 SHA-1: 86da8c6ebf070273a7cd924a3b95d7993c6bded7 SHA-256: 14372ab6b9454e28dcbf057e7444df27a58682dd77f8e1279365947c1b74fff2
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

The file was detected as malicious by ClamAV and an ML classifier, indicating a high likelihood of malicious intent. Heuristics indicate it functions as a link farm, directing users to multiple external URLs, some hosted on compromised WordPress sites. The presence of embedded URLs and the nature of the heuristics suggest the PDF is used to facilitate phishing or distribute further malware.

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://queure.ru/uplcv?utm_term=ipr+notes+pdf
    • http://sevennews.com.br/ckfinder/userfiles/files/jojatekari.pdf
    • http://hwayinn.com/image/files/20210911_015247.pdf
    • https://alley.52886.tw/uploads/files/22908360465.pdf
    • https://toscanafantastica.com/userfiles/file/66688015671.pdf
    • http://www.hcibatiment.fr/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1613ac9d62ef7a---tafozonogilef.pdf
    • http://panel2conso.com/userfiles/file/14450293754.pdf
    • https://asharfilalkulfi.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/62118267642.pdf
    • https://www.ftha.org/admin/ckfinder/userfiles/files/12248267447.pdf
    • http://novaserv.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1613e7cba7b277---55820551007.pdf
    • http://teakdeck.pl/files/file/937323653.pdf
    • http://pactolous.hu/upload/file/55761759170.pdf
    • http://adaviestransportltd.com/userfiles/file/vosikifetuvemalener.pdf
    • https://polinagerz.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/soomjb8tengriums6mtvd0j01k/79571834861.pdf
    • http://www.thediethub.in/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1613fe011c3323---9473032048.pdf
    • http://abworder.com/uploads/files/90452970971.pdf
    • http://www.mmd.ntou.edu.tw/ckfinder/userfiles/files/belamipikof.pdf
    • http://suchanekstomatolog.pl/files/file/56250958260.pdf
    • http://leise.ru/admin/ckfinder/userfiles/files/79733906090.pdf
    • http://erainbowrealty.com/userfiles/file/xurifefifodutafomel.pdf
    • https://armenia4d.com/contents/files/balajoxin.pdf
    • https://ezsprinting.com/userfiles/file/zelebaxo.pdf
    • http://yidaig.com/uploadfile/file/20210904205409.pdf
    • http://www.teeintact.com/admin/fckeditor/editor/filemanager/connectors/php/img/file/pexukato.pdf
    • http://ylpcl.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/3048250456.pdf
    • https://newline-eg.com/userfiles/file/24225435608.pdf
    • http://www.w3.org/1999/02/22-rdf-syntax-ns#
    • http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/
    • http://ns.adobe.com/pdf/1.3/
    • http://ns.adobe.com/xap/1.0/
    • http://ns.adobe.com/xap/1.0/mm/
    • http://ns.adobe.com/xap/1.0/rights/
    • http://dejavu.sourceforge.net
    • http://dejavu.sourceforge.net/wiki/index.php/License

Extracted artifacts 3

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
font_00_sfnt_off0000dd53.bin
9f24579370b81f6ea80c9865139ad777d71ef5581f00063de9d39d82ca13eff3
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xDD53 17680 bytes
font_01_sfnt_off00010b67.bin
82ef471b4734480923d33730ac01923ad5ff72c9d01dce97c6b93948622baed5
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x10B67 10144 bytes
font_02_sfnt_off00012232.bin
9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x12232 16792 bytes