Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 14c1eabd210f575e…

MALICIOUS

PDF

95.1 KB Created: 2021-09-18 02:21:36 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3)
MD5: 9ef39e18ff70970a7ffe5a7c74f3868f SHA-1: 3633f4c5be69846901efe8f337ef981db065d8ad SHA-256: 14c1eabd210f575ec3475e16d93c638d43efb8de8f1c885438e5d0a6624fb87f
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

The PDF file was flagged by multiple heuristics as malicious, including a ML classifier and ClamAV, indicating it is likely a phishing or malware distribution lure. The heuristics identified the document as a link farm pointing to compromised CMS uploads and disposable hosting, suggesting an attempt to redirect users to malicious content. Although no scripts were explicitly extracted, the PDF structure and embedded URIs are indicative of malicious intent, likely involving the exploitation of PDF vulnerabilities or social engineering to trick users into visiting the linked sites.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9969

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://www.nachtruhe.info/up/files/denivute.pdf
    • http://ciar.vn/uploads/image/files/geforoluzivep.pdf
    • https://weilaimachinery.com/userfiles/files/vonugopojaxatafa.pdf
    • https://hantverksakuten.se/ckfinder/userfiles/files/219455171.pdf
    • http://raylutickenterprises.com/userfiles/files/73909869705.pdf
    • https://www.ezhealthcheck.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/viro560sjde1b0cv47aiob7fis/37830968321.pdf
    • https://greenboo.vn/uploads/files/52755171506.pdf
    • http://xperion.hu/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/9abda689aa7ec53a940b4069199a571a/61046236196.pdf
    • http://csc-vietnam.vn/uploads/userfiles/file/bilubekowotafejujut.pdf
    • http://bivalyracing.hu/files/file/toditeliw.pdf
    • http://4226080.kad.tw/kads/ckfinder/userfiles/files/tezededalumegupolakiwi.pdf
    • http://lnv-cnc.com/userfiles/file/ponowik.pdf
    • https://atlanticcompact.org/userfiles/files/tenoraxisekorunoxuse.pdf
    • http://flapboxes.com/userfiles/files/46804038628.pdf
    • http://amwordpress.org/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1612f535e78131---69170833423.pdf
    • https://braus.uz/images/shared/file/kefivaxiruvefodarojo.pdf
    • https://www.wizzfizz.com.au/application/third_party/ckfinder/userfiles/files/18557105012.pdf
    • https://angkalaris.com/contents/files/rudutavaminoxoxefo.pdf
    • http://usagimatur.com/files/others/pazer.pdf
    • http://momsystem.ru/public/file/17840629639.pdf
    • http://veraschwemmle.de/fckdata/file/lemoxowujenuve.pdf
    • https://obermeyer-modemarkt.de/upload/file/2085033206.pdf
    • http://foto-preiss.at/upload_files/files/82215167213.pdf
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/1eyvgo/aqOO/~3/YTWXjIUwRh0/uplcv?utm_term=my+oedipus+complex+pdf
    • http://www.w3.org/1999/02/22-rdf-syntax-ns#
    • http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/
    • http://ns.adobe.com/pdf/1.3/
    • http://ns.adobe.com/xap/1.0/
    • http://ns.adobe.com/xap/1.0/mm/
    • http://ns.adobe.com/xap/1.0/rights/
    • http://dejavu.sourceforge.net
    • http://dejavu.sourceforge.net/wiki/index.php/License

Extracted artifacts 3

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
font_00_sfnt_off00010fd2.bin
e006e89e9bed6c0d2bd6e9ada02fa3a560c1b8d177378ba19b1b1859e29e7272
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x10FD2 17988 bytes
font_01_sfnt_off00013e5f.bin
db543baf735c452bf42115daa86c1fbdcd772d4e58ed49fe08dfd0a3942487ef
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x13E5F 10628 bytes
font_02_sfnt_off000156ba.bin
9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x156BA 16792 bytes