Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 14cdd1c857ab024a…

MALICIOUS

PDF

111.3 KB Created: 2021-06-17 15:06:48 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7) First seen: 2021-09-23
MD5: 3f12f233cedeb55ef96ebaac48edac06 SHA-1: 826b4d9e5c83a390aff24d4a62e9b5a728f00b15 SHA-256: 14cdd1c857ab024a58c73b10fc115c95e73ff31accb9dc20d8521ec4c55941d4
96 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

This PDF document was flagged as malicious by an ML classifier. The file embeds a large number of external links characteristic of an SEO link farm, many hosted on compromised CMS upload directories. Specific URLs and indicators for this sample are listed in the indicators section.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9997

Heuristics 5

  • 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://laborke.ru/uplcv?utm_term=pokemon+emerald+safari+zone+map PDF link annotation
    • http://www.zav-mito.si/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608ade490e2af---kuxutedazixigupejel.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://baptistfriends.org/media/rofavevafiwasijuw.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://centroolosprato.it/userfiles/files/bizaxetidamaremamax.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://apsons.eu/files/file/62819301599.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://choiceenergynetwork.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/fb1c889ec13e4d27e8ab755bd05e4e56/sakizafogasopukako.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.allterra.group/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/8d1634c4d814abf99e5873af38c261cf/84109291396.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://kengosushionlineorder.com/uploads/files/67004792234.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://phuocthuan.vn/images/pic/file/lodajataxutiwulu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://mebelpozakazu.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/97dab24deec2daa562b91792ea431d89/82521928183.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://wacee.net/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160ab7b3e7856a---suzaduza.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://theopenhouseclub.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/e88486e3393ed43427e2065ec9132968/83143013129.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://leesman.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/8b28a6c6291d916f97da6d4529bad85c/ketilokiduvatezadi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://homeaestheticsllc.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/c715f53c1e9b2569e4e60f107ab6da71/ferozipisijivun.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.pennlighting.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/3f2886e17c6b33ba025c76b756be4846/19110717678.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://bochosushi.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a79334a7ae4---sojowa.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.fifatravels.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160c87f1c58624---15055903859.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/In PDF document text
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/typedesigners.htmlIn 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://scripts.sil.org/OFLIn PDF document text

Extracted artifacts 3

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
font_00_sfnt_off00015274.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x15274 10436 bytes
SHA-256: 29cd79959cb06d49721061e9a234a1e65760a20dd818dacd8d2d4ca1eec3d7ac
font_01_sfnt_off00017517.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x17517 5304 bytes
SHA-256: 5e142dde06282c1e88167df8b776da59417365b21166d845391c0326911697da
font_02_sfnt_off00018717.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x18717 12364 bytes
SHA-256: 851dc47daeda3b893e69ca23b8d66a61dc324164e51efc173e76661dd6aedfbf