Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 14c1ede008c0f27d…

MALICIOUS

PDF

85.8 KB Created: 2021-08-01 08:03:33 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-07
MD5: cf34781288f9ad1c6f17af95d910eddf SHA-1: 247991a1fbb9cfabc3f4456ebdf87a493ceb5fe9 SHA-256: 14c1ede008c0f27d6c539a26e2e765a6572d347e69eed9fbf72c6d6f8e97af3f
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF document was flagged by a machine learning classifier and ClamAV as malicious, specifically as a phishing trojan. It contains numerous embedded URLs, many of which point to compromised CMS uploads or disposable hosting, forming a link farm. These links likely serve to redirect users to phishing sites or download further malicious content.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9985

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 https://hometeamcorp.com/images/usr/17483597080.pdf In PDF document text
    • https://plumcourse.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/8f47613dabbf71517081ad10aff0617f/26160528368.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.helpforbusymums.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/a17884d9672326dff4ebe8225566be7f/wagafiwufusoximojibapu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://vijyaiprismcrm.com/userfiles/files/ropasejeb.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://blog.crowdly.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16098bcb0653d5---waletajererogibafuxawoja.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://emaaravm.net/upload/files/lowas.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://foundryindia.org/userfiles/file/wuxutudozagenokuked.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://blindnow.com/userfiles/file/xevak.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://worldcastlive.com/userfiles/file/97045205976.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://skyfireconsulting.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/rh1uq74dugg9r90khbvisu4qh6/zezimenodupe.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://mumegram.com/userfiles/file/ralezebi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://123natura.com/stockages/files/74409303159.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.birdandwildlifeteam.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160e26730a60a0---81916481767.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.corpeverest.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/64855825666.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://nexxosrealty.com/userfiles/files/fewid.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://mdbim.pl/ubezpiecz/obrazy/file/11280910417.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://imotrading.com/images/userfiles/51827531040.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.yankey.com.tw/demo/public/editor/ckfinder/upload/user_upload/files/sanarix.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://securitegenerale.tn/userfiles/file/gonutovomodebafe.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://limpiasol.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607b1cb60e3d1---69833299625.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://slavica.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/91c8eb3ad7228ab7b92824a708d5444a/zikuseromib.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/skout/mBVl/~3/S30rS-6n6vg/uplcv?utm_term=loi+des+noeuds+loi+des+mailles+exercices+corrig%C3%A9sPDF 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_off0000e443.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xE443 19648 bytes
SHA-256: 8113d1b0c00eb9883f973829c343a28403807bcdac7f7016a74433538f855ddb
font_01_sfnt_off00011640.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x11640 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_02_sfnt_off00012e57.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x12E57 10928 bytes
SHA-256: 999dfa4bb3258f34113027c7cbda90092474337084f5128de6af5e79be3198ff