Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 14602c45118e6a9b…

MALICIOUS

PDF

87.3 KB Created: 2021-09-02 16:34:54 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-07
MD5: f5b36f17ff1c292724cbb3cb6d9f7fd0 SHA-1: ce336bb601307326b2672935bd13998b83ca47fd SHA-256: 14602c45118e6a9b9be7ba4cee018ae5779e7fcdbf08615ffded38e8b3818b30
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment T1203 Exploitation for Client Execution

The PDF contains a link farm pointing to numerous websites, many of which appear to be compromised WordPress installations. The ML classifier and ClamAV detection strongly indicate malicious intent, likely for SEO manipulation or to distribute further malware. The presence of multiple external URIs and link farm heuristics supports this attack pattern.

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://worldkelo.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/ea71c8c3672efc4d91b069d4b1e4d629/sabajede.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://www.mkkdigital.pt/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16112a8f32cf90---74681334218.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://sistersaviopublicschool.com/userfiles/file/16929312373.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://obasekiestates.com/UserFiles/file/jesunesatol.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://morethancars.nl/uploads/edytor/file/43163317424.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.kadinlarsitesi.org/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1606cd8a65c062---diwivefolupeja.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://westtech1963.com/clients/d/d4/d4250bc21dcbbf02d7f9bc68df143add/File/31850871447.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://studiogalata.it/userfiles/files/70390976374.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://rpitrade.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/79864227337.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.rosebankprimary.co.za/inc/ckfinder/userfiles/files/kuvebiwekakolisumomimapow.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.adler-leitishofen.de/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160f095673dba5---41011601481.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://sushibelovo.ru/files/51845951322.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.kadeavenue.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/82b7f3f3341a65ffcdac60e8e233ccf7/joraredijolonezidez.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.sosonomo.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/53030429896.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://dailyliving.nl/ckfinder/userfiles/files/84011381952.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://web-sila.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/120b17477d5004ac8f09b51aac947d3c/fiwiboga.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://bangprice.combangprice.com/beta/cms_image/file/4254822186.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.sparkprototypes.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a7118f1506d---topogif.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://dwornawodzie.pl/userfiles/file/sebidepefesiwifi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://bagpack.com.np/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160e00f5a48a8c---tuzusugoradonufib.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://postscriptproductions.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1606e6a14e7b9c---nonisaverumekoruderaxomaj.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://claudiodauelsberg.com.br/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160ad242416811---16085274951.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://oklogistic.lv/upload/file/nosuwarinuzulonuz.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://nuregio.de/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609684604dc34---betutulazikuvijir.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cananalimdar.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/qogaamgcr4r5k0vard1ckdmhts/40607559304.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/1eyvgo/aqOO/~3/A3Ryygt5BCM/uplcv?utm_term=all+formulas+of+area+related+to+circle+class+10+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_off0000e7c1.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xE7C1 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_01_sfnt_off0000ffd8.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xFFD8 10932 bytes
SHA-256: 82d0dec25bbef50a4a06bdaebc47cbacacbee8d9ee85f89628247ca1a0d55670
font_02_sfnt_off0001193e.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x1193E 20624 bytes
SHA-256: ac2b1acaf5cba73a942fa0abc308cbfe95d65f01ffe4b1343bb010bc235b79e4