Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 14949eed80efd39b…

MALICIOUS

PDF

80.8 KB Created: 2021-09-15 11:47:05 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-07
MD5: a14bae0c274acb3880e44fada8a398a4 SHA-1: 244437df7e5763903a874bad8931d085efd4176c SHA-256: 14949eed80efd39beeeb7d5831571df796e29867687ff12b51f8d925001a2d33
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

This PDF file was flagged by a machine learning classifier and ClamAV as malicious, specifically as a phishing trojan. It functions as a link farm, containing numerous embedded URLs that direct users to external websites, some of which are hosted on compromised CMS platforms or disposable domains. The primary purpose appears to be directing users to potentially malicious content or phishing sites.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9949

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://synerhu.ru/uplcv?utm_term=active+directory+domain+services+interview+questions PDF link annotation
    • http://neoneofitou.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/zemoba.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://agencement-menuiserie-var.fr/stockages/files/18919992332.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://thietkewebbacninh.com/webroot/img/files/pebupupifugidop.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://hibertek.com/image/files/20210912_012924.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://studioguagnoni.it/userfiles/files/52895673777.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://kocarbonag.com/luutru/files/26701842768.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://creativesilhouettes.ca/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16141561dd6f4f---turubigu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://witnesstherealist.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/ddea38b263f6159c64b3c02f59f001fe/mesaluwixus.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://rkdestate.com/userfiles/file/romisiwifazusozo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://madmojo.com/fckupload/file/xonopifiwutimopixuduvajek.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://nutricount.cz/UserFiles/File/juvekexaruf.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://maciejabramowicz.pl/upload/files/file/91542387427.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://briquettemachinery.com/d/files/48532547170.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://rumusjitu.com/contents/files/zovefelelaxidupojo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://acetuitioncentre.com.au/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/161415e50880e2---43337167311.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://history.tlshaa.org.tw/ckfinder/userfiles/files/61104711991.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.quatainvestimentos.com.br/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1613ac868cf19b---14414360877.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://kantipursecurity.com/userfiles/file/wilurezelilubalepumugame.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.seminariomenorvalencia.com/admin/lib/ckfinder/userfiles/files/79213789493.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://strongpointmarketing.net/userfiles/file/69008150482.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://custom-mugs-factory.com/uploadfile/files/46697954000.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://study-abroad-travel.com/ckfinder/userfiles/file/33746422922.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://viral-list-monster.com/ckfinder/userfiles/publics/files/71244656779.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://studioprogettoarchitettura.eu/userfiles/files/vazesebidorasekudov.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cairparavel.ro/app/webroot/files/userfiles/files/59244259879.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_off0000d775.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xD775 10976 bytes
SHA-256: a95269a7876feb089557837682b117a647b80ef2c6dfc0a7a870482cab43c8ed
font_01_sfnt_off0000f0e1.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF0E1 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_02_sfnt_off000108f3.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x108F3 17208 bytes
SHA-256: 4e2174afa3fb9a5bfb846a40115e1e28c584ffabb5f6ad27dbdbbfa652d8fef1