Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 14632060cb0c313e…

MALICIOUS

PDF

102.7 KB Created: 2021-09-14 00:51:10 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-11
MD5: 407472371fad114c8cddabc523f4b04e SHA-1: 689666c52958bbe3c1e153fdacdc8717181c9ae3 SHA-256: 14632060cb0c313eea8a2f375c61af0cf120e690b6783ea5795db46579acf20c
176 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The sample was detected as malicious by ClamAV and an ML classifier, indicating a high likelihood of malicious intent. Numerous heuristics fired, pointing to the PDF acting as a link farm, with many URLs hosted on compromised CMS upload directories or disposable domains. The presence of external URIs and IP address literals suggests the PDF is intended to redirect users to malicious sites, likely for phishing or to download further payloads.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9961

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
  • Clickable URI points to raw IP address medium PDF_URI_IP_LITERAL
    PDF contains a clickable HTTP(S) action whose host is a literal IPv4 address. Legitimate documents normally link to named domains; raw-IP destinations are common in disposable phishing and malware-delivery infrastructure.
  • 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://nnt52.ru/userfiles/file/ruxexidimixa.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://xn--80aatg4aaaddkhfhbf3evf.xn--p1ai/ckfinder/userfiles/files/67532147846.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://noospc.ru/SITE/files/editor/file/vunaxuloruli.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://mimpiindahsatu.com/contents/files/66457756176.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.mueblesgamez.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/tevajasupud.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://produse-zilan.ro/files/padusi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://luluscafeonline.com/uploads/files/3493243444.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://oresteruggiero.com/userfiles/files/62360329849.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://guidesdugrandlarge.fr/images/import/file/duwabikesiwa.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://constructionone.com.br/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1613e352db8c50---35091071767.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://79.170.40.182/boothtastic.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1613fc10943610---9121490634.pdfPDF link annotation
    • https://10s317.com/uploads/files/202109041324354781.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://kicksomeglass.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/1e1b59c82dbc8f8a087ea7b8ef9f7cfa/20008692499.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://chicagohalo.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1613bc214080b8---25431221691.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.gc-antey.ru/ckfinder/userfiles/files/kixifafimafiwapenabuxemu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://files.ibiza-ferien.de/file/xofamim.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://basundharamart.com/userfiles/file/19404082578.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://kapfenberger-schuetzenverein.at/userfiles/file/86025064711.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://grimastone.ru/files/razavekevemododitep.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://opsclown.it/ckfinder/userfiles/files/peduwepenepibovej.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://clubkdo.fr/img/pics/files/4379897721.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://alternativi.brtim.com/uploads/wysiwyg/files/balodag.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://neilreardon.com/customer/3/d/9/3d947ad6ce2568d98b832ccf5548371bFile/25772057879.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.1000ena.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/161303f439e5e1---kuwir.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://karcannakliyat.com/userfiles/file/dafedebukodilesejifitar.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/1eyvgo/aqOO/~3/BkSY9tpko7c/uplcv?utm_term=the+ghost+of+spartaPDF 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_off00012cb0.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x12CB0 10356 bytes
SHA-256: c28468033910e6fc43da59ac35b0fa524841c56765737175b579625b0948c08e
font_01_sfnt_off00014443.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x14443 18604 bytes
SHA-256: 317f49bcf1c524f64c956f313ce94c414611d7d48daf6bbe8a0b6b55e46c6d29
font_02_sfnt_off000174f3.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x174F3 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1