Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 14702eb71c419252…

MALICIOUS

PDF

103.5 KB Created: 2021-06-28 00:06:45 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-09-14
MD5: f85320d2de2fe36f8107c4fcc25c90d4 SHA-1: d20a65853c8bd1c7ae28920e9aeb7d2aa069d711 SHA-256: 14702eb71c419252ed79a02ce82df26f29b93b7f6f45662ca055bc45b484a1cd
176 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment T1204.001 User Execution: Malicious Link

This PDF file was flagged by multiple heuristics, including a critical ClamAV detection for 'Pdf.Phishing.Trojan'. The document contains a link farm pointing to numerous distinct hosts, many of which appear to be compromised CMS upload storage or disposable hosting. The presence of these links suggests an attempt to direct users to malicious content, likely for phishing or malware distribution.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9926

Heuristics 7

  • ClamAV: Pdf.Phishing.Trojan-d2528dad23a95d95-d2528dad23a95d95-10044376-0 critical CLAMAV_DETECTION
    ClamAV detected this file as malware: Pdf.Phishing.Trojan-d2528dad23a95d95-d2528dad23a95d95-10044376-0
  • 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.
  • Callback phishing phone lure medium SE_CALLBACK_LURE
    Document asks the user to call a phone number in billing, refund, subscription, fraud, or security context — consistent with callback phishing or tech-support scam patterns. Suppressed for legitimate-issuer (IRS/gov/official-form) documents that carry no urgency or charge/dispute escalation.
  • 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://fabtur.ru/upload/files/46502454014.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://3colorjazz.com/fckeditor/userfiles/image/zenakokizatefomalizalu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://bjzjygj.com/fckeditor/editor/filemanager/connectors/php/userfiles/file/sizabapamarifajomotarom.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://kachhiproperties.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/vh02ncl0dfbhmfnfkdqfac56v4/15710789519.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://postscriptproductions.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16071030e21b5a---40486107015.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://klingende-zeder.de/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a26a4b56825---96251076916.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://designklasse.de/ckfinder/userfiles/files/53931803722.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.baptistenhardenberg.nl/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1606c91965d662---41766493715.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://syntellect.ru/Repository/file/84087430448.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.web2business.pt/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609b9c1d805cb---29533875648.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://staractivecollection.com/resimler/site/files/35423309745.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.capitalroofingct.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16074cfd12ce66---53678769024.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.wikiwebagency.it/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/5349a73cf3b21d5723886c4e391c7a89/44104926855.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://soba05.org/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/a5f33965e845de711a331cad6c3875ff/tazudu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.analfissur.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1606d9ca536f85---sijudewinubiko.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://jnfarley.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/ehhj7shfn9p9tj81lobusa5ik7/51922075850.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://silesiacapital.eu/data/file/rufufotikogijevoleza.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://dmn.ca/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a8888eb3438---7744156725.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://allaboutdowney.com/userimages/21294622427.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.fliesen-brill.de/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1606fd696d467c---41186467118.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://messianic.live/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/4f8d39953dd4b291f461162d97ccfb6f/liloguvexawoxex.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://mollis.rs//files/99223594668.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://graylegalservices.com/customer/3/d/9/3d947ad6ce2568d98b832ccf5548371bFile/kebupajukaleludesa.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.tifdip.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16098bc0c4d66a---34629201165.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/1eyvgo/aqOO/~3/GLLx1DTH0VQ/uplcv?utm_term=enjoy+your+vacation+meaningPDF 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_off00013373.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x13373 10752 bytes
SHA-256: e034670b7d22e1ff798b2b22915a26e4bed86e0c0ec1a5ba8fc7d1497020e160
font_01_sfnt_off00014c29.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x14C29 16972 bytes
SHA-256: d7862d9739ee6556c960a83ff1f4dd8c93783d47d445f463119baaa9861911cd
font_02_sfnt_off0001788b.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x1788B 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1