Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 14c94a2d5fd3adc5…

MALICIOUS

PDF

96.1 KB Created: 2021-07-27 13:23:12 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-27
MD5: 4938054953e3a91dac2ea69028721c03 SHA-1: c7ec5651665be8e0c55446b0b7b611968ab2149b SHA-256: 14c94a2d5fd3adc577a59815b5a4762aa67e31c1b327b0000325a6d99df4dd71
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF file contains numerous links to compromised websites, indicating a phishing or malware distribution attempt. The ML classifier and ClamAV detection strongly suggest malicious intent. The presence of multiple distinct hosts and link farms points to a coordinated effort to host malicious content or redirect users.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9976

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://khonggianmang.com/upload/files/386111059.pdf In PDF document text
    • https://www.hediyevideo.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160da2624c72c8---sufexobumezugekapeb.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://goref.ru/files/file/58068393404.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://freedomhypnosisnyc.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/2f7125b2eaf0efed50efd05aeb724760/paliwo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.onestopnaturalstore.ca/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/mf3jcb3ldrt0gn9qotnb4f0kvl/33962304868.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.1000ena.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a78d3f09f38---pusuwoluverupelomu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://talani.nl/userfiles/image/file/kuxifuripi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://opusincertum.it/userfiles/files/zixubur.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://africansafaris-spain.com/FCKeditor/editor/filemanager/connectors/php/connector.php?Command=FileUpload&Type=File&CurrentFolder=%2Ffile/16830302964.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://madonnina.info/userfiles/files/rumefatorubeva.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://spaslask.pl/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/ci7gut82l338dpuhskmnbperch/26030138267.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.circoloaletrium.it/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16084188896c8f---wugewiladapi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://derkwoo.com/upload/editor/files/93619250543.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.ibadirect.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a8c7e1087fb---52256526997.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://capmar.eu/userfiles/file/93879387791.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.techsrollout.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160b6a8c359d4b---29785410802.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://vom-ragnaroek.de/uploads/file/gibufenusujuva.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://sindicav.com.br/ckeditor/ckfinder/userfiles/files/36222113136.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ednak.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160bb61d382f8d---dasidovubadofuluguni.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://pocatellocampfire.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/2jqjod7j7s486q456o5o7jpfd1/72563097354.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.lipfish.no/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a2c8272f2f4---85564928186.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://kaufdeinauto.de/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16079bc5f814ff---85744993027.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://tofuyatogo.com/uploads/files/raxonekojusixebuvum.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.sandzthabapanel.co.za/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607395bc5f10d---pitojaraduwi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://estudiowebcolombia.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/wojifeni.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/1eyvgo/aqOO/~3/PmAiG5ZyT-k/uplcv?utm_term=acrobat+7+professional+authorization+codePDF 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 4

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
font_00_sfnt_off0000e828.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xE828 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_01_sfnt_off0001003a.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x1003A 20112 bytes
SHA-256: 1f379707a381dcb822816fadd7e98c7f3e31c736f3338e4fdec2a4293df69420
font_02_sfnt_off00013382.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x13382 11048 bytes
SHA-256: 6405209803efcc6e23c85edb78bf997b71f76332f5f657ebc2d382beb35eaa8e
font_03_sfnt_off00014cfe.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x14CFE 11776 bytes
SHA-256: 092e1a677802b8c47282e585c07ebc413a66b5509619232c3e0120116c30c126