Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 14989122e2e04b66…

MALICIOUS

PDF

72.5 KB Created: 2021-09-01 11:35:38 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-05
MD5: 8f067821bade6b63693d9d5de8017bd7 SHA-1: a0a830703ea0e604601815ea271bf0d5c2178197 SHA-256: 14989122e2e04b66520c10b7da9b36100d3871e4ebe04028735e8a5bbb0fa7ce
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF contains numerous links, many of which point to websites hosted on compromised CMS platforms or disposable hosting, indicating a link farm designed to direct users to potentially malicious sites. The ML classifier and ClamAV detection strongly suggest malicious intent, likely for phishing or malware distribution.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9990

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://stef-nancy.fr/upload/document/16554950823.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://argyleliquidations.com/userfiles/files/8100889103.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://slbreakingnews.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/tasewekavuladawij.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://voyagerf.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/7c84c19957703f96014b53e9bf8a37b8/53192074903.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://chickenwild.com/upload/contents/images/images/29964234195.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://brahmagnanam.org/fck_uploads/file/53153395753.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.mvdisposal.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160908be26f9a5---91662364916.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://pristineleather.com/userfiles/file/dutixajogi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://rolcsi-bau.hu/userfiles/files/bafobupenaj.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://totalmediasolutions.ae/ckfinder/userfiles/files/62445156557.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.oschouston.com/osc/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16082a740e3306---89571257752.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://dossalas.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/855992113fcb2c10d535a338cf035bea/37075265819.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://hrmconsulting.biz/upload/files/lomevafonove.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://luluscafeonline.com/uploads/files/mabuwexugatasobomub.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://agiusfuneraldirectors.com/files/file/bilamabadawakukiralex.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://trainternational.in/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608ca980ca86a---tifuvigimojusat.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://onlinendttraining.com/files/rukaxesugebapewov.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://timebank.ru/sites/default/files/photos/pagefile/27462943172.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.rolstoellift.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160f0575a7af56---68092025167.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://mithermomix.com.mx/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/6135d884bdd8ac245fc21617066c0916/nofetilozazibatara.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://gofropack.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/c9aa7ea93abb8a2ba74286813eb09f0b/sazotekixasixa.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://socialchangefactory.org/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/9b48db2b6fa522645cb66df08f094c09/ribaniku.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://g-ortho.com.br/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1611d5ae8d8c6a---83482006620.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.melloecastro.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160885d0c65ab1---87793181100.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://phannhan.vn/files/usersfiles/files/20626979830.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/skout/mBVl/~3/1KS0DP0cxss/uplcv?utm_term=plant+nutrition+of+greenhouse+crops+pdfPDF 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_off0000ba75.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xBA75 11000 bytes
SHA-256: 0bc1fcf0f8f92a8089ddf496c41d6d9a94b8ae9ce2ab0df70459955bbf66c06f
font_01_sfnt_off0000d3c8.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xD3C8 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_02_sfnt_off0000ebda.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xEBDA 15632 bytes
SHA-256: 94de93e728cff35d3bbf25664147100a7a1141d29fcf13d975a539a22298ebf8