Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 14646c393792329b…

MALICIOUS

PDF

82.4 KB Created: 2021-07-10 05:32:30 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-11
MD5: d30cb3aa99448d08aa96f626192647a4 SHA-1: bccfbbe260c8372fda9d4c4cb649b0d7b36ce36a SHA-256: 14646c393792329bdf90410f632deb5eabd05009026667e48f142af761c78370
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 compromised CMS uploads and disposable hosting sites, indicating a phishing or malware distribution attempt. The ClamAV detection and ML classifier strongly suggest malicious intent. No scripts were extracted, but the structure itself is designed to redirect users to potentially harmful external resources.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9846

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 http://al-bandak.com/userfiles/file/wokamolamakixigexizeku.pdf In PDF document text
    • https://cor.org.ar/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/qplastcea534pg0sgq7guetoeb/86810638728.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.popcaffe.it/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/91c0654d2f673c3bc10291c52396f8dd/32397639717.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://asigurareingermania.ro/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/0psidup5fe7ipfheft7lj8d8vl/pedatezalud.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://nhaban24h.com.vn/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/amr677ojoagrgnhie8bv93823u/62019830778.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://webtechnocrats.com/upload/file/pepubilemoba.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://duext.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/28b0a5f0af6c66b892b59beaf8954f46/61556506376.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.mywil.ch/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160876af6ac7d1---97662675203.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://aduanaldelvalle.com/userfiles/file/85198568367.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://csptech.net/admin/userfiles/file/telejumerusovefodolojemag.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://mattress-leader.com/media/68105185868.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://salvatoredivilio.it/userfiles/file/2055760509.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://quickfix-poland.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160837870b36ce---64500105784.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.phoenixdentalacademy.co.uk/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/08947ce8e5f771a1dd0e8772c28d70e5/94017251340.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://3dprofi.net/images/uploads/file/89264386660.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.aironface.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/8504ece74307ca52afb692c298e971ca/23805093038.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ciaooo.ru/uploades/userfiles/file/83613317437.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.ncstarim.com.tr/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/fka999g71q39cpq9hnsavohlk1/bebimageduwozesis.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://lisacutler.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160c72d2062140---bebisavupule.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://floorco.allianceflooring.net/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/8534ef3508023ef2f57910eb601122fc/kutokiraxirofovajem.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://gamletaarnhuset.no/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160e52b65ec90b---kotin.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://lavera.it/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1606cf3c99268c---gapevumuboza.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://dekoblickfang.de/userfiles/file/tezinizik.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.iycadana.org/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/58ed5ebtpurk6vdpf1hlv9p5f1/54940803140.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.dekleinewerf.nl/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608112ac3acf8---92232633093.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://bagiez.com/userfiles/file/sejulafadexogiliw.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/skout/mBVl/~3/Om9ozkHLxGw/uplcv?utm_term=personal+pronouns+subject+and+object+exercises+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_off0000da51.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xDA51 11088 bytes
SHA-256: 7634ddf136890f5228321dbe28b833ec451fb5b57ab544ef64a28dacf24cacf7
font_01_sfnt_off0000f410.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF410 17888 bytes
SHA-256: d6502ee07746a9a4cc5390a73aaffbefa45438002c383c9d16174288c75c70af
font_02_sfnt_off000121b0.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x121B0 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1