Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 14543bcb748aca13…

MALICIOUS

PDF

89.7 KB Created: 2021-09-12 21:14:38 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-16
MD5: c1b32803b142dbc7ef8d13afc82bfbc8 SHA-1: f2f93abd0aac752016a21d6f2ae9d6411c266bd9 SHA-256: 14543bcb748aca133f83e1011aeb59f13f50351fcc73ea51ea4ab15d1b2a20b6
164 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

The PDF contains multiple links to compromised WordPress upload storage and disposable hosting, indicating a link farm designed to redirect users to malicious content. The ML classifier and ClamAV detection strongly suggest malicious intent, likely for phishing or malware distribution. Although no scripts were explicitly extracted, the PDF structure and URL findings point towards a malicious document designed to exploit user trust.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9937

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.
  • Urgency / deadline lure low SE_URGENCY_LURE
    Document contains urgency or deadline language ('account will be terminated', 'action required within 24 hours', etc.) — useful context, but low-signal without other findings
  • 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://ducthoaudio.com/upload/files/mubiseneni.pdf In PDF document text
    • https://automatisme-portail-bordazzi.fr/userfiles/fichiers/34169473481.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://worldsocialistpartyindia.org/ckfinder/userfiles/files/xekupamutajomabusiram.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://alenakovalchuk.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/d5431547a5e12ec93ff749757470c64a/notiguzilalujolaripigu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://hoangnampte.vn/quangbasanpham/app/webroot/upload/image/files/48574527429.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://jshtextile.com/UserFiles/file///13454844433.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://sodigital.it/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1613af942d4ee5---sikavafeso.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://copyjokertw.aw6.tw/uploadfile/qu4_qu106_com/files/31080061422.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://jadeite.ru/images/file/53331303449.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://pradakshinam.com/fck_uploads/file/10335527672.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://cuathepvangohaiduong.com/images/ckeditor/files/86711784781.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://hflchw.com/upload/file/60277402816.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://cs-golfclub.com/ckupload/files/lujujikoneresapane.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://stavo-bazar.cz/userfiles/file/vusiniwusumi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://bunyaminerdemir.com/resimler/files/68983093806.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://mega-gold.com/userfiles/files/neludadakewebozubijev.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://namlinhchivietnam.net/userfiles/image/file/47567533577.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.christinemartin.co.uk/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1613105b63dcd1---66181365712.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://baoveantam.org/upload/files/58407506667.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://s-serviss.lv/userfiles/file/pusakavivemotaxizijenuj.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://beijingxinzhi.com/userfiles/file/20210909122317_1439261551.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://unionasset.net/file_upload/spaw_upload/file/20210906095150.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://760_709737661.mildmedia-dev.eu/uploads/userfiles/files/29028795869.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://dossalas.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/4d5aa7b3f8ac45375d2d655479c0046c/roxezukuwudizunuvoruxig.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://namhungholdings.com/uploads/ckfinder/files/79612278321.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Uplcv/~3/YTWXjIUwRh0/uplcv?utm_term=idm+app+for+pcPDF 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_off0000fa16.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xFA16 10092 bytes
SHA-256: 948fbbbebff774bd3c5aee84b88804c309e906f63e8f72d4db734a537bfe0b1e
font_01_sfnt_off00011084.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x11084 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_02_sfnt_off00012896.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x12896 18844 bytes
SHA-256: a06d8daf11eaae194bebf0ec41207b0206747ecde18bf471b733002fdb495d45