Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 14666cc7e605ba36…

MALICIOUS

PDF

85.1 KB Created: 2021-09-19 02:02:36 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-16
MD5: 7abdb4146bb138a1debf0e5451078d79 SHA-1: 9236156589c1a3b8367243e321ef9c512c137695 SHA-256: 14666cc7e605ba363523cc15c823d81b4d4b14ebe1f8a41e38b188228f27be20
216 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF file was flagged by a machine learning classifier and ClamAV as malicious, specifically as a phishing trojan. Heuristics indicate it uses a browser extension or update installation lure to trick users, a common social-engineering tactic. Multiple external URIs were found, some pointing to compromised CMS upload directories and others to raw IP addresses, suggesting a distribution network for malicious content.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9912

Heuristics 8

  • ClamAV: Pdf.Phishing.Trojan-d2568dad23a94d95-d2568dad23a94d95-10044375-0 critical CLAMAV_DETECTION
    ClamAV detected this file as malware: Pdf.Phishing.Trojan-d2568dad23a94d95-d2568dad23a94d95-10044375-0
  • Browser extension / update installation lure high SE_BROWSER_INSTALL_LURE
    Document tells the user to install a browser extension, plugin, viewer, or browser update to view content — a common social-engineering path for credential theft and malware installation
  • 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://crysiq.ru/uplcv?utm_term=how+do+i+enable+omnibox+in+chrome PDF link annotation
    • https://samarthanamparisara.org/apadmin/uploads/userfiles/files/xuzevigatetezu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://appvid.eus/userfiles/files/56625723143.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://smartmedia.ro/app/webroot/files/userfiles/files/nutezofejenedebizitil.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://mgogs.com/mgfiles/file/47726031745.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://jodhpurtravels.com/nbloom/fckuploads/file/betagekewilopov.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://honeycontacts.com/uploades/userfiles/file/82212274818.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://simorgh.it/uploads/file/vajoluxuninojodaveg.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://skontrolsengineering.com/file_media/file_image/file/sebeneresafovuxuvigite.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://pizzeriagiganti.ro/imagini_ws/xefodogipogi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://eldorado777.ro/upload/editor/file/39273935475.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://nitexprofi.cz/userfiles/file/buveluweju.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ultraljud.nu/bild/files/sefifizodutilenoven.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.louisianarebarcontractor.com/editorimg/file/10394940263.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://poojaindiangrill.com/nbloom/fckuploads/file/ladapisofejajut.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://elitteaccesorios.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/moep6vg140277o0aclcqqp95el/29216759439.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://cargologicru.com/sadm_files/46258989149.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.milestonesmn.org/ckfinder/userfiles/files/jakaja.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://yuseigachi.nl/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/161452cba0f4de---bizufigipuk.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://dienmayminhchau.vn/uploads/news_file/raposuzawan.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://whereestar.com/marinarubicon/admin/file/6817711331.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://abhrian.com/userfiles/files/65251004745.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://140.121.161.111/ckfinder/userfiles/files/kozijokibojelutejugufujok.pdfPDF link annotation
    • http://hellnocancershow.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16135b55f4dada---67282099164.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://sindikat777.ru/ckeditor/ckfinder/core/connector/php/uploads/files/fevebavafutizavib.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://aaexpansionjoint.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1613623e908666---bikodozagux.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://pixel-pro.ru/upload/file/42251659575.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_off0000e7b0.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xE7B0 18080 bytes
SHA-256: e38426b0bc8d66ef615d5c6b82b6a1cfac77a099bab759ae0d545ba7a2aaa59b
font_01_sfnt_off00011638.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x11638 10688 bytes
SHA-256: 8bb75ab50b928b28abbbf9b730be5caecca4b2da0254ea5fc2d5798f0ff3210c
font_02_sfnt_off00012e70.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x12E70 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1