Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 14767f97976ae4fb…

MALICIOUS

PDF

85.4 KB Created: 2021-09-04 02:07:58 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-14
MD5: fa29708b94106c479b4143877304e084 SHA-1: 67e2ddc42bf27c3165d9f32026912629a18f63d6 SHA-256: 14767f97976ae4fbb08a696a0d3cfb4eda5cd01f8a66730906f0e251caec5091
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment T1204.002 Malicious Link

The PDF contains a link farm pointing to multiple compromised websites, a common technique for phishing or distributing malware. The ML classifier and ClamAV detection strongly indicate malicious intent. The presence of numerous links on disposable or compromised hosting suggests an attempt to obscure the final destination and evade detection.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9912

Heuristics 6

  • 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.
  • 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://joebalogh.ro/imagini_ws/56374301404.pdf In PDF document text
    • https://ehblending.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/6ac8491090abeb989018aa53c0091709/90518855110.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://rolfingnaples.com/clients/a/a5/a5422f62036d2d393d866963e902351c/File/joxinasitevibixodej.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.egavilanes.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/dadizimevotedud.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.sudaff.com/pics/file/dipibeliw.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.altrus.pl/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160fd9f4706fc0---70792922331.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://inprovituruguay.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/rekobalivogufik.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://eaas-journal.org/survey/userfiles/files/feriletepesud.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://rybarict.cz/webpagebuilder/ckfinder/userfiles/files/26577025327.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://zae.me/datafiles/file/42563144467.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://eis-pieschel.de/UserFiles/File/bajixusofegumupefirasunuj.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://rijst.nu/userfiles/file/vukapul.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.traveltimevipp.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/5fd5482d1ca0f94028dd76b296ca8302/zujebopote.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cullinanconstruction.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/nuvpnimnmib5ns69dqtek1a7lm/28258248310.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://thegroverestaurantnj.com/userfiles/files/xulekifevisuxokorog.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://vegasoft.hr/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160b5f15a62036---99546033403.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://bbmeti.it/userfiles/files/62438815619.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://yuseigachi.nl/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160b6017b002d3---6841748963.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://wearefamilypalestine.com/clients/3/3b/3bc38fc23f9ffb54b20226cbd6ad6ce3/File/51096520165.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://edukiya.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/0d0f9d891a2af4be6d5afc9ca16b8905/64016198361.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cald-lighting.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/f2bba31916e32ef875ef2b8bf44f9ab7/2884942301.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://e-hematologica.pl/users//file/paxiwolexosajorugufo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://unityproductions.com/upload/files/98876356404.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://pro-group.ru/userfiles/file/12233127215.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://baxsporthorses.nl/userfiles/file/nowugiwibaxavatik.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://encouragingmath.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/da1527d668d992e33c20d8f793f74118/jebosisifogitebatujudife.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/1eyvgo/aqOO/~3/Om9ozkHLxGw/uplcv?utm_term=laserjet+pro+m203dw+printer+manualPDF 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_off0000e827.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xE827 11240 bytes
SHA-256: 66422f842ee6f32152db7f8e34b3f32c1bc5f13cb70a37364c16703df82dde53
font_01_sfnt_off00010290.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x10290 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_02_sfnt_off00011aa2.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x11AA2 17524 bytes
SHA-256: f066dd6d1e8a20a7b46873964f51cc784bfb3347b23d25b714b358df75cf48a0