Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 14a284803d550998…

MALICIOUS

PDF

96.8 KB Created: 2021-08-10 13:59:31 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-12
MD5: ec5188aadf49cfef08ff5037d8eb287d SHA-1: d258bca8f4891540f8af26a5dd61b27f9548d7aa SHA-256: 14a284803d550998cb2e32c3756bc04d294a4098375b15aeddb6e4be5edae4b6
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

This PDF file was detected as malicious by ML classifiers and ClamAV, indicating a phishing or trojan payload. It contains a link farm pointing to compromised WordPress sites, likely intended to redirect users to malicious content. The presence of multiple external URIs and the compromised CMS upload link farm heuristic strongly suggest a phishing or malware distribution attempt.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9965

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 http://fabrykakonwersji.pl/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/daffb2a4a3b336540d7d6ce085be101c/65017861579.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://mouaumfb.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160e09976da219---857790345.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.paparazzirestaurant.com.au/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/be823db4894963148368971439fdfc9b/xuvimagavekekidomew.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.goataxiservice.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607b028b874c2---50631872104.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://wagaskar.com/media/20599011083.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.wiz-fac.com/uploadImg/file/92065442135.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://kibbkw.com/uploads/files/zarukejaratifejobetipupa.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.web2business.pt/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608caaee57791---zubitusimugokuze.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://judyzscotties.com/clients/1/1f/1f1ef5c9f72ce0e5bea5babf356718c6/File/25065027264.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.dnevi-sekretarjev.eu/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160c3432bc7b31---96625919515.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://w-f-l.de/user_img/file/mawodoluridu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://rescue.bg/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160ba1bfddb5b4---93941853370.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://biswasi.com/userfiles/files/lutudumekedakogusu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://riverasphotovideo.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609249b8ca5c1---weronus.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://k-sta.kr/FileData/ckfinder/files/20210715_6CF2B6A03C93D450.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://christianboudreau.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607b1c002bd68---bisizofugoxox.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://winpoasia.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/52587470654.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://m-isc.com/userfiles/file/21568308611.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://glasschneider.koeln/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/nkgdvkdlvfeq48u0t2pmpr5r55/81366287307.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://grandviewgroupresort.com/upload/files/tizomifukevubiguw.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://raczcsalad.hu/files/wiboti.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.straightmyteeth.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/f10d98aa45906b48b29cadbadf6f9704/damekupeloli.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.sadcmedia.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/suh5vkacqstdtq6s9pli3lrh1j/noxoxox.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://12shio4.com/contents//files/gitasujitunazuguwekipe.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/1eyvgo/aqOO/~3/S30rS-6n6vg/uplcv?utm_term=mortal+kombat+trilogy+n64+smoke+movesPDF 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_off0001152b.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x1152B 17412 bytes
SHA-256: fe9769213351bb09bcd3cb2e9c974d9ba82e7357830651253610c6606d784be7
font_01_sfnt_off000142f2.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x142F2 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_02_sfnt_off00015b09.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x15B09 11104 bytes
SHA-256: 2587f5f2299804955eb77ac48d2ed55045acc2fc0f29bec49781eb7c0313884e