Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 14be73f410e6dc13…

MALICIOUS

PDF

80.0 KB Created: 2021-07-18 15:44:27 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-14
MD5: e4be89ba6126b9ae40d6b1a235ef1c21 SHA-1: 455fdea1af41c12b5b7c60ff77aa68e9312d443a SHA-256: 14be73f410e6dc134933b1252034003dcf8940b7891356a4e4a4da6032647561
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF contains a link farm with numerous URLs pointing to potentially compromised websites, indicating a phishing or malware distribution attempt. The ML classifier and ClamAV detection strongly suggest malicious intent. The presence of multiple external URIs and a link farm on disposable hosting further supports this assessment.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9960

Heuristics 6

  • ClamAV: Pdf.Phishing.Trojan-d2568dad23a94d95-d2568dad23a94d95-10044375-0 critical CLAMAV_DETECTION
    ClamAV detected this file as malware: Pdf.Phishing.Trojan-d2568dad23a94d95-d2568dad23a94d95-10044375-0
  • 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://xn--l3cbpp3gh4a5g5c.com/userfiles/files/44411861429.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://surmounttravel.com/userfiles/files/83245195455.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://3handseg.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160ac081504cdf---71973950269.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://adiwirawanbali.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/866566cf89da17dce5644fbf3dd922d1/26139284504.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.andyselfstorage.co.uk/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/26mv8a4nqtp8nqifrvgfbpifbb/gowotivonizogezomor.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ehblending.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/ebe57ecace889175d06a187e33d0fed3/70905942580.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.bistro-e.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1606ef4240eeea---wadobopewexafivinorij.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://eyestech.in/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/4bufhndsnm0r9hqm603irn8qd7/57761947640.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://sakitonus.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/5a71b5aa20e92801847b0ab43739ac13/ginadibifadafurifefimu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.insurancedirectcanada.ca/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1606cc6a0e0fe7---fosimazekimixalogaregos.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.jesuseslaroca.org/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160f33c5d8b7e5---26397648370.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://tvkinter.com/file_media/file_image/file/mepajumugatoluwol.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.karenlovelee.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160d921848b6bd---2096493285.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://insights3.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/a3ac13d6f2d0153a4de988909681688a/14851029203.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://dcmheavyequipment.com/admin/images/file/8450043240.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ienter.bg/files/39706136219.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://blog.crowdly.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609c4942d7764---9719188411.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://adria-ex.com/images/blog//file/dimusudu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://nissanotogovap.com/uploads/images/files/38270760562.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://innotec-industrie.be/userfiles/file/54383830434.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://lllk.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/6fd73afc93d4487b9f0b2ab3348c8746/67914599947.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://lllk.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/68d999e6f46b598340670650a8038202/figitozepeduguru.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://deconkhoemanh.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/mkcfvirlobsatgrmpjdshi6p01/72840630218.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Uplcv/~3/GLLx1DTH0VQ/uplcv?utm_term=40+laboratory+apparatus+and+their+usesPDF 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_off0000d087.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xD087 10944 bytes
SHA-256: 529714e3f6da2b7c9240d1b5cec60b261a9cf843135799372ee39d136af833b2
font_01_sfnt_off0000e99e.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xE99E 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_02_sfnt_off000101b0.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x101B0 18648 bytes
SHA-256: 4c144fcfaa5899cda5022619ccff65b988017f67a5e80160d452754eed24e5bc