Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 14b720ab91536a52…

MALICIOUS

PDF

74.9 KB Created: 2021-08-28 17:55:43 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-09-15
MD5: 0f4d6a506cc18aa7faab49187a00d74a SHA-1: 7bf95a1116b86adb84733ce13dc363916a6b8d80 SHA-256: 14b720ab91536a522fe339bf628481db0da43c52b4f3c197b37c63fd62f45bdd
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

This PDF file was identified as malicious by ML classifiers and ClamAV, indicating a phishing or trojan threat. It functions as a link farm, with numerous embedded URLs pointing to potentially compromised WordPress sites and disposable hosting, likely intended to redirect users to malicious content. The presence of external URIs and link farm heuristics strongly suggests an attempt to lure users to external, untrusted resources.

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://healthtecindia.com/userfiles/file/25913656279.pdf In PDF document text
    • https://sk-developers.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160bb460d99115---45227067447.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.pfgpartners.com.au/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160c5bab8256da---wukipulime.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://intertexmedical.com/userfiles/files/xesawovawuwa.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://kemxoi.vn/app/webroot/files/images/pages/files/77302398076.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://kwong-cheong.com/userfiles/18448308634.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://wuxihemei.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/20210828_064622.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.cheapmotorcycleinsurancepa.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/25a183600829206d1503a7fd3402cf6b/zedozaragalokebu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://stauarchitetti.eu/userfiles/files/60819940196.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://allaboutdowney.com/userimages/rupisaka.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://cathugo-yachts.de/res/wysiwyg/file/51547643568.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://sk-developers.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609e434d4957d---32805516790.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://pho32shabu.com/uploads/files/83006526906.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://rotarycochinharbour.org/ci/userfiles/files/5610388392.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://sonarmusic.hu/up_image/file/36472578749.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.cascinasorigherio.it/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160ab50b4e0151---pamubugokubowogepitexuwa.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://villahetzwartepaard.nl/survey/userfiles/files/44009983907.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://woonhuislift.info/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160c41b371eabe---newufinafugizezorasoxido.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.1000ena.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609d539b5e549---nubota.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.dentaltaxpros.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/a3ae13c89841b4ce297a7942b8518560/jowugiregop.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://bistro-8.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/ca95fe7a69827d102d696e70d1568699/75508654845.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://uniontend.com/userfiles/files/90140592992.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://worldkelo.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/a0153f2513f7d1a026052ddb6e3fa897/lumululufipus.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.latentoac.com/portal/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/tgcuqt0j7gipfrt1ugtve9t6b9/37629739809.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.injamal.es/nueva/ckfinder/userfiles/files/nebitagarovisazotuv.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/1eyvgo/aqOO/~3/BkSY9tpko7c/uplcv?utm_term=i+want+to+see+you+be+brave+lyricsPDF 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_off0000c459.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xC459 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_01_sfnt_off0000dc6b.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xDC6B 15740 bytes
SHA-256: 749381afbb067e1850212e031a5f06c836467e1df83a7cfd9047057df3e2db6d
font_02_sfnt_off000104a3.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x104A3 10680 bytes
SHA-256: f45af92088f6075dd5861e630eef25c582860a2bd0661623e2e3ee7550f714ee