Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 14661949d2673d93…

MALICIOUS

PDF

74.7 KB Created: 2021-06-19 13:50:51 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7) First seen: 2021-10-04
MD5: 04d6aa1ea1be015520d8d4ec4dd8f5ef SHA-1: 1b21e58136a47267d338242dd8dfaae3c470fb1b SHA-256: 14661949d2673d93c02d2d195734a4ee3fa423142edf831907cd14c065e864ab
164 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

This PDF document was flagged as malicious by ClamAV and an ML classifier. The file embeds a large number of external links characteristic of an SEO link farm, many hosted on compromised CMS upload directories and presents a deceptive download button. Specific URLs and indicators for this sample are listed in the indicators section.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9999

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.
  • Visual download / call-to-action button lure low SE_DOWNLOAD_BUTTON
    Document contains a call-to-action phrase ('Click here to download', 'Download Now', etc.) — low-signal unless other findings point to a malicious workflow
  • 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://hayatteknoloji.com/webimage/file/38978269638.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://sattosushi.com/uploads/files/vemuwixepisegutazuwo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.financedeclined.com.au/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160bf51c900f67---monofuwame.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.insurancedirectcanada.ca/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160bfc5768aab7---lulikofezuwamalonof.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ctapigroup3.com/contents//files/megugizafevonugorinon.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://msr-hudsonproperties.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/81164d56d5931b79ce0c9b644d9a7da8/bosowujob.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.ayersworthglen.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16083c24d25dd2---galeredozapafunum.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://tofuyatogo.com/uploads/files/wusimiwulimosixatu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://guruamardaspublicschool.com/userfiles/files/55482495063.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://singaporeroadshow.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/99492cba66f458bdfe5bc197547b63b6/bexitutanogasasonog.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.americanapi.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160c2e7701f7aa---21530029600.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://pluckywize.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160982be517aa4---sumujepolakak.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.justgym.co.za/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/e56e8ev52opk61v5ntjhm2kdda/nasunowap.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://benardoutlite.com/admin/fckeditor/fckdata/file/43710477690.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://khanikango.in/file/bitev.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://nationalcardsolutions.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607ff7e5a7d1b---vaxogaw.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://vizzzio.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/909f7461e9c0fe540583c6870803f2a4/lemozoruxugulu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/In PDF document text
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/typedesigners.htmlIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Uplcv/~3/3vuEKuznOb8/uplcv?utm_term=possessive+pronoun+activitiesPDF 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://scripts.sil.org/OFLIn PDF document text

Extracted artifacts 2

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
font_00_sfnt_off0000e4e3.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xE4E3 4956 bytes
SHA-256: 793447afda84c08124a9bab52c39af09169a8796f61cb3cb5d4db19855352a3b
font_01_sfnt_off0000f5d6.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF5D6 11416 bytes
SHA-256: d2499244e589d89ebd082b885c593a780958795ce75ec628e3e6f836b776f857