Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 14460ba1c4634ee8…

MALICIOUS

PDF

86.3 KB Created: 2021-09-04 09:16:50 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-16
MD5: 43dbcedcd1d92fb481d098cddccb159b SHA-1: 0586fe0fff2def86a4a045556809e4f2f8d73808 SHA-256: 14460ba1c4634ee87b67d5129014f10c1a24116fa3df072660b4c57b87959098
164 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

The sample is a PDF document that utilizes a link farm technique to host malicious PDFs on compromised websites. The heuristic 'SE_INVOICE_LURE' suggests the document's content is designed to deceive users into downloading the payload, likely by posing as an invoice or payment request. While no scripts were directly extracted, the presence of numerous external URIs and the ML classifier's high confidence score indicate malicious intent.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9905

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.
  • Fake invoice / payment lure low SE_INVOICE_LURE
    Document contains invoice or payment language paired with an action verb — useful context when combined with link, macro, or attachment indicators
  • 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://www.spreefahrten-berlin.de/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/2d4bu00v4gl9pd0ltbm7h842me/9199483095.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://www.wallisandemmanuel.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160755fe0b2a2c---kulamaduxuni.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://securitydirect.it/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/a3c914f641ffa126f61679eb92955f3c/ferewu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://danburyhighclassof1961.com/clients/b/b4/b42d7d7907ff1a67dd6fd366dd3c6775/File/73681116503.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.sidertest.it/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160712cc9667b9---64886247461.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cmflower-kkc.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/misekar.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.deadclan.nl/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607b1d34d214e---74592980829.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://aodaibooking.com/FileData/ckfinder/files/20210726_872BE6AD768E15A5.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.temsilcisitesi.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16087a2093eaca---52874669249.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://drstevealbrecht.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/a7783a9c980a464d35dd76e3c6181430/babunafebodigawu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://studiogreenwich.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/35b686649cd1ec0cbcaf3ae3b662b8b4/96456342679.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://3dreamvr.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/4d4cbb3bae323b3211725f43679f296f/7051822377.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://yapluka-services.fr/userfiles/file/zasenafapakoxadumi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://fujavietnam.com/images/Download/15331004733.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://getlovebooks.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/9bc8bbbf200cb0af420873002667906f/95349003107.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://global-insurance-broker.de/downloads/terumevakaf.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://suachuabaoduongmaynenkhi.com/img_quanganh/files/21008398246.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.isnb.co.uk/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/d55a873fb3f1e5559abf1ad20a58f5cb/2156973757.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://penoplex24.ru/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609c74c5d4bab---rodasizuladagumav.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://noukos.gr/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607ce35608690---26858254056.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://sitebyside.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/47858edc9e23ab9f506e9adab957ec2a/fefipaw.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://kingspec.su/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/c4h4qmmolen2bus72e7r3m0mn7/33725913217.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.qookspot.kitchen/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a1d0d78c25c---fomakuresun.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://brunoamaranti.it/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/mv1j9k7j2kingf7q9jti5ej5g3/muraxiguxuw.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://hurtglass.pl/upload/file/20033615993.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://n-zvuk.ru/upload/file/76719169619.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://phillipsbrothersmill.com/clients/6/65/65192871cce8a6e36080a9ebd2808b02/File/5713419189.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Uplcv/~3/LPIa9PGmDLg/uplcv?utm_term=computer+accounting+with+sage+50+2016+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://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_off0000e759.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xE759 18284 bytes
SHA-256: fc399fa42c667792ca89be994225a48c61772a3304b96bc45901572b70ee7c1f
font_01_sfnt_off000116c9.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x116C9 11832 bytes
SHA-256: 591dc6ee9702d23c0f8916d58b2740352120fa1fb16f27af800137f1f5a7628e
font_02_sfnt_off000132ed.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x132ED 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1