Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 14548aee74c694b4…

MALICIOUS

PDF

83.8 KB Created: 2021-09-03 01:08:27 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-23
MD5: 981021d34c245ed60e6d27c11f5e7e9c SHA-1: 659477a49f90fbca8b1f94fc6f25c7f1a2ba1595 SHA-256: 14548aee74c694b446d0630d7d46eea41faa55dba86e74b91e139b08f43985a8
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

The PDF contains numerous external links, many pointing to compromised CMS upload directories, suggesting a phishing or malware distribution attempt. The ML classifier and ClamAV detection strongly indicate malicious intent. While no scripts were explicitly extracted, the PDF structure and link farm heuristics point towards an attack pattern involving redirection to malicious sites, likely for credential harvesting or further payload delivery.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9977

Heuristics 6

  • ClamAV: Pdf.Phishing.Trojan-d2528dad23a95d95-d2528dad23a95d95-10044376-0 critical CLAMAV_DETECTION
    ClamAV detected this file as malware: Pdf.Phishing.Trojan-d2528dad23a95d95-d2528dad23a95d95-10044376-0
  • 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://crysiq.ru/uplcv?utm_term=elleys+modular+switches+price+list+pdf PDF link annotation
    • http://paletydozahrady.cz/ckfinder/userfiles/files/68721043610.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://urbanconstructions.org/images/uploadedimages/file/24053021622.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://advancedbusiness.co/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/5c110bda86a8dfb9cfdebf779ecdf1a2/55105501874.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://farmina.ru/uploads/files/55994630975.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://bestrecycledautoparts.net/images_i/file/91350140996.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://wuxihemei.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/20210606_040931.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://aquariumfargo.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/2631189e417bfbe6ee634941b21b4895/25197148708.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://blessedfamilycovenant.org/clients/c/cb/cb727bc273eb4203dc66fb73741ae5ae/File/355286051.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://sinara.org.br/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160ade1578f619---90073470112.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://thomas-zigon.de/images/file/gijujupujubukorakuw.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://studiomanzella.com/userfiles/files/54086198063.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://wojno-stal.pl/pliki/file/vedokuwepetuvositi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://geology.ie/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609832e101000---votoror.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.isgs.org/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/0d8d59c41da9a050245fa9b783567a88/99580428814.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://altinay-law.com/images/file/6888809873.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://sckprime.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/b0496f475c98a3aca4c9c88defc1e4a1/xidiwixabotogusetawux.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://dungcuruamui.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/4fj0e2199o1gjff4tf16iejis0/68154513886.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://finestblogger.de/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/bqf0g9digvhmcm5nbbapb6s2b9/rejumexomavovexiju.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://macautemple.com/userfiles/file/71491582762.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://mercedesmazo.es/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607c90c6c6a40---nadidepitukuzu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://a-swiss.com/upload/userfiles/file/semoturewimepujixekufu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://jrecchina.com/ckeditor/ckfinder/userfiles/files/7401129349.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://jlsxjy.com/right/UploadFile/file///2021080121540073499.pdfIn PDF document text
    • 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_off0000e04f.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xE04F 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_01_sfnt_off0000f861.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF861 18236 bytes
SHA-256: 322b8ec5d3c8ba98ee057073c8ff52e99e06c0c16449e9aaf7c901acaf5a3903
font_02_sfnt_off0001278b.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x1278B 11064 bytes
SHA-256: 2e4cd07320aeb07880af2bbfbf8ca4aa9e8ce68d7c3a42f5c6fa4b316de3dfe7

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