Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 14b5b5871e71000d…

MALICIOUS

PDF

70.8 KB Created: 2021-09-06 07:52:34 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-07
MD5: 6ba8864ddde0abf2642275cf0d871edd SHA-1: e65e7dbf5bf49ee0d32572d0fddae89df2e9053d SHA-256: 14b5b5871e71000d94241cf278bf1166a424bdabc74544c889600980573a7f49
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF contains numerous links, many of which point to compromised WordPress sites and disposable hosting, suggesting a link farm designed to redirect users to malicious content. ClamAV detected this file as Pdf.Phishing.Trojan, and ML classification strongly indicates maliciousness. The presence of external URIs and link farms points towards a phishing or credential harvesting attempt.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9982

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://madopin.com/calisma2/files/uploads/ferafetoxixunaguz.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://alexanderkanevskyartgallery.com/clientMedia/file/vuwesa.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://erulingua.hu/uploads/content_files/files/39285724003.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://bringem.de/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/ed571e7c9b1408ebbe9653953f62752d/xuzed.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://gorisum.net/fckeditor/upload_file/file/35116594917.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://htwy.com/upload/file/levedi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.jesuseslaroca.org/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1606d537917edb---91452959574.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://pankalconstructora.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160aa7b719ad48---pefovuzud.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://es-umzuege-transporte.de/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/71a1aaabff05a6e35d7a794053d9f667/jodulavini.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://studiophotosfashion.it/userfiles/files/nujibikarag.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://extreamtuning.ru/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607d1ccf4347d---86878754498.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://veterinariacasettamattei.it/userfiles/files/13419493900.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://griby.biz/ckfinder/userfiles/files/71151105203.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://andreaslasnik.com/data/files/jodedizevi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ufcnagykanizsa.hu/userfiles/file/lilijaser.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://autoprofi.ua/userfiles/file/48652732051.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://xn--42c1dhzaq5aeb.com/userfiles/files/jazaru.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://wacee.net/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16129fecc09088---wazezegudiwuxaxogegonizet.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://teplitsyoptom.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/5c1bf8714138caa05578481245849c58/kajolonezexa.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://nek.ua/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608397f014fb1---45098727440.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://idcla.net/upload/files/2253365376.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://rusepress.com/uploads/wysiwyg/files/2495963231.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/1eyvgo/aqOO/~3/cv9VXjIrmdE/uplcv?utm_term=google+doc+to+pdf+ipadPDF 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_off0000b4d8.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xB4D8 10464 bytes
SHA-256: e28c61ba81f5239580b7ccaff9bff8ccf714745b939b37eddbedcfd552389562
font_01_sfnt_off0000cc8d.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xCC8D 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_02_sfnt_off0000e49f.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xE49F 16136 bytes
SHA-256: 53f751f7c85236557a759afda76db1823c489abeda63e85e24b11fb90a2e3a7e