Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 14a9086bc7a8af6f…

MALICIOUS

PDF

83.7 KB Created: 2021-08-28 23:20:14 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-11-21
MD5: 5b8a7bd850cc663baa5a0454a715db5b SHA-1: 8f50cdc398e869ce0327bd22f06d701106d1ac9e SHA-256: 14a9086bc7a8af6f6ba8fe0e7cb522deee405545499fe9ad7f08a271c81b0f72
176 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment T1203 Exploitation for Client Execution

The PDF was flagged by ClamAV as 'Pdf.Phishing.Trojan' and a machine learning classifier indicated a high probability of maliciousness. Heuristics identified it as a link farm pointing to compromised CMS upload storage and disposable hosting, suggesting an attempt to distribute malicious content or phish users. The document body was unreadable, but the presence of numerous URLs and the heuristic findings strongly indicate a malicious intent to redirect users to potentially harmful sites.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9974

Heuristics 7

  • 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.
  • QR-code redirect lure medium SE_QR_LURE
    Document instructs the user to scan a QR code with a phone — consistent with QR phishing, but also common in legitimate documents
  • 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://hopefor.today/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/f23e7d76202aecc50bc404bda46a1714/josojobelazosexif.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://feuerwehrobrigheim.de/upload/files/37184875848.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://medizator.ru/ckfinder/userfiles/files/vovisa.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://metrocars.london/survey/userfiles/files/51689754157.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://takeorders.online/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/aceduskfhnl2hr0ja9tpmuvqgi/jujobe.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.norestim.ro/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16112e8c0d2867---74336530137.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://xutricolor.com/uploadfile/files/bupesipatagela.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://benchmarktransitions.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160c447719247b---liwig.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://luingpyrex.cz/foto/Image/file/vidisodubilig.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://lesbambousbleus.fr/ckeditor/upload/files/99802669217.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ymy-tea.tw/upload/files/jimubavovil.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.fotografoeventimilano.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/161123c96ba03a---46037693848.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://massageindex.nl/images/uploads/88720008727.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://youkuvpn.com/upload/files/garevobev.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ndt-tl.ru/upload/file/10225908090.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.fotografoeventimilano.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160c46e324ffd1---tebib.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.swissfillon.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/86f5b44f69bfc1c392ef016cec53c1e5/sukurejig.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://grappin-annat-como.com/userfiles/grappin-annat-como.com/file/pekeputudisobare.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://archltginc.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/b37c8faf1cf2c0a0975450c8a745bc2f/rikevobixumodusanelizew.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://munnarinfo.in/userfiles/file/rizawo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://feast.to/upd_file/jefezifavivoruriw.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://apc-algercentre.dz/ckfinder/userfiles/files/91783243786.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://divapharma.com/uploaded/file/6324312198.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://t-p-fortune.com/userfiles/file/fifisebexekobozanoveli.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.stamfordtaxis.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/g5r38lsqkkutl7g7rqg8k7jekv/newewifumududuzijazaver.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Uplcv/~3/BkSY9tpko7c/uplcv?utm_term=why+do+you+deserve+a+promotion+answerPDF 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_off0000e16e.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xE16E 17796 bytes
SHA-256: 8500b9869819bd62518037722f56c88930bdccbfa564ea3f1cf878c0dc97fc5a
font_01_sfnt_off00010f62.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x10F62 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_02_sfnt_off00012779.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x12779 10968 bytes
SHA-256: 521e6e30a34fd45822b88f02300c1fb1f1e216cff62f1df0b7078a6d9708bae8