Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 14809a880c599114…

MALICIOUS

PDF

77.4 KB Created: 2021-09-03 09:02:40 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3)
MD5: 8c4f2e87762e3d3f9b074f52b175beef SHA-1: 10738cd608294ce0487c36841367b5d1fe090c05 SHA-256: 14809a880c59911421ee5374258c8b2c894e166d8e64e610f7075fc67f095bab
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

The file is identified as malicious by ClamAV and an ML classifier, and exhibits characteristics of a PDF link farm. Multiple heuristics indicate the PDF contains numerous links pointing to various domains, some of which are hosted on compromised CMS uploads. The presence of external URIs and the structure suggest an attempt to redirect users to malicious or phishing sites, likely as part of a broader phishing campaign.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9992

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 https://infrive.ru/uplcv?utm_term=2015+jeep+renegade+manual+transmission
    • http://www.kliningstroy.ru/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a2e8ae7a558---xukejufivaboridazun.pdf
    • https://www.isnb.co.uk/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/eac298b4c65c0a84a48eab2899d89d37/tumukegejolabutus.pdf
    • http://for-rent-leuven.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160988d2767f2c---petogavi.pdf
    • http://bagandpack.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/b3c96537ee235556a91622207e953e8c/77233116390.pdf
    • https://brune-schmuckwerk.de/ckfinder/userfiles/files/51757788735.pdf
    • http://classicalgardenornaments.com/uplds/file/rokelopezezedozuben.pdf
    • http://mrukseo.pl/userfiles/file/jumopopeb.pdf
    • https://zohopinler.com/calisma2/files/uploads/96245261980.pdf
    • https://bbmint.com/userfiles/file/94731667137.pdf
    • https://cristiandellavedova.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/kai83rrp9v4ugs8sk4bfea4ck7/nurox.pdf
    • http://www.ddd-iasi.ro/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160e6294e6c64b---89121502949.pdf
    • http://viral-list-monster.com/ckfinder/userfiles/publics/files/77848920325.pdf
    • http://mwflower.com/upimagesfile///vivutuzixinekalupebut.pdf
    • http://triatlonbizuterie.cz/sites/default/files/file/rexejumudowazutiwikofijez.pdf
    • http://pokemom2.com/uploads/files/92859501322.pdf
    • https://alenakovalchuk.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/9b7f476a267eba314c09ac713b7d3311/79999496601.pdf
    • http://joelcsimonesq.com/customer/3/d/9/3d947ad6ce2568d98b832ccf5548371bFile/53901926681.pdf
    • https://www.mclarenpress.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16102c780c3f32---tiripixot.pdf
    • http://omgmediatank.com/userfiles/files/31136549124.pdf
    • http://bowlingkillers.com/imgdb/files/poforububiwirut.pdf
    • http://www.w3.org/1999/02/22-rdf-syntax-ns#
    • http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/
    • http://ns.adobe.com/pdf/1.3/
    • http://ns.adobe.com/xap/1.0/
    • http://ns.adobe.com/xap/1.0/mm/
    • http://ns.adobe.com/xap/1.0/rights/
    • http://dejavu.sourceforge.net
    • http://dejavu.sourceforge.net/wiki/index.php/License

Extracted artifacts 3

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
font_00_sfnt_off0000c91b.bin
141097eb2c816f9aae06929a93170e501726029d9928b6945586d3eae6b44789
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xC91B 17308 bytes
font_01_sfnt_off0000f5c4.bin
11185742f6e1cad0d758c71904141ac29d19f2c2f435c0c72dec642d59f4fcc3
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF5C4 11296 bytes
font_02_sfnt_off00011029.bin
9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x11029 16792 bytes