Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 14b9d2e4b15285ab…

MALICIOUS

PDF

89.9 KB Created: 2021-07-03 05:58:40 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-09-13
MD5: ed5f5bf87d36083e5a2ebdcf5acada84 SHA-1: b2e794bb81bdfabf94abbd2a05a50c8ad9ada218 SHA-256: 14b9d2e4b15285ab694de22b7875d3e6ca52821796177e53f1bf7dd37cb870c7
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

This PDF file was flagged by ClamAV as a phishing trojan and by an ML classifier as malicious. It contains numerous links to external websites, many of which appear to be hosted on compromised WordPress sites or disposable domains, suggesting a link farm designed to redirect users to malicious content or phishing pages. The presence of embedded URLs and the nature of the heuristics indicate a phishing or malware distribution attempt.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9947

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://ketchas.ru/uplcv?utm_term=closure+property+multiplication+example PDF link annotation
    • https://amitadevnani.com/userfiles/file/mikafo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.zav-mito.si/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607ebf1bb4bed---sapategubatedawoxap.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://codemessaging.net/ckfinder/userfiles/files/rofibotum.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://lacasedescaraibes.fr/file/jezusejasujuxetaxedo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://frennphotography.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16072bab93a77b---nenowelux.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.pirac.org/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/af8d7ae20c0bcea6b05490ddcf3b1b8f/kizukajevimuxewafimov.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://aquatrustfina.com/userfiles/file/2625780480.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://bentzendesign.se/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609428f3208cb---6654121627.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://notofthisgalaxy.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/9kr1qf8jqcvmqreifcue74ac6g/5755055006.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://geoplan.su/userfiles/file/gogorubosupabitigigo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://melz-feu.ru/upload/1131673536.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://cuacongtrinh.vn/upload/files/xoziwekabupefuzusaba.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.alex-vasilkov.ru/images/wisdom/file/fubusebipitubula.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://omak1968.com/clients/71178/File/65777921315.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://mas.vacations/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160855f6b3958b---68518171543.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://nailseasupportgroup.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/dff908ef0b1675ddf1ee40c816291b30/gidivazatawexadenipud.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.ezhealthcheck.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/n4cqadj2nqb1mlob3odp4ovplu/zetoxadobomakefasaner.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.petersmetalstitching.co.za/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608db7074f079---36865681624.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ahreco.com/uploads/news_file/buforaxumig.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://hightechrustremovers.nl/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1606d551ddd11b---vibosemorojobemapil.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.ikedatosou.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a36bc2d9807---53824049925.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ehomeforeclosure.org/images/file/koboninufipilavajitamo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://gf-location.fr/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a009366f3e8---45404274242.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://travels-ukraine.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16073e507036d1---xejuzosogizixifugidodil.pdfIn PDF document text
    • 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_off0000f7ed.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF7ED 10884 bytes
SHA-256: ef5649117c9d499bb082f75e64595ef9fd851526b36ca005a675a656143bc9a9
font_01_sfnt_off0001112f.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x1112F 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_02_sfnt_off00012941.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x12941 18588 bytes
SHA-256: 0e0ce272f363bdd065dade32e8c356a318c3e47e0d44ddb5ebe74b15fe75abba