Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 14d459cf7606aebe…

MALICIOUS

PDF

82.9 KB Created: 2021-09-19 19:44:26 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-26
MD5: e1c105d04f511c361f7fd64b51da26e3 SHA-1: 86b37b8b633410adb4d33c9a073cf00266030aa3 SHA-256: 14d459cf7606aebece5878330e64c4f9a15b02996dba11cbf9bab22f553f32f6
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

The PDF file was flagged by ML classifiers and ClamAV as malicious, indicating a high likelihood of malicious intent. It contains numerous embedded URLs pointing to compromised WordPress uploads and other disposable hosting, suggesting a link farm designed to redirect users to malicious content. The presence of external URI heuristics further supports the attack pattern of luring users to external sites.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9846

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://krisoc.ru/uplcv?utm_term=download+from+old+phone PDF link annotation
    • https://makanbanyak.net/contents/files/88179989582.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://itscebu.com/upload/file/20210913151423.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://vipavtoufa.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/aa4a2c3861aa6a3fb35d89ff51007feb/61648319254.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://bellezaeimagen.com.mx/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/161420e5f28d81---13738328959.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://embody.box8websites.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/razujixu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://antoniolescio.net/userfiles/files/22842456129.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://hanaelectric.com/userData/board/file/lopigerinu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://insfilings.com/skyzone_classic/upload/files/44988525678.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://triatlonshop.cz/userfiles/file/55797661331.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://olgapolyakova.com/files/files/furasokavawexovo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://khanoomhoteli.com/basefile/khanoomhotelicom/files/luzurovirenixusovodimob.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://himalayakebab.com/shipinc/userfiles/files/fujenukixedevexojamej.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://domesticsolutionsagency.com/userfiles/file/xoxezokituvigununogale.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://pacantioquia.org/aym_image/files/86564646333.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://oppedisanorobertosrl.com/userfiles/files/zegasazowoxudaxerizasod.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://123kozijnofferte.nl/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/fab86429862f0eac10d403219d4ec6d1/76035425280.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.3dreamchurch.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/94c31ec3e508990eebe3c435f7a14807/suwegifixezitalewowab.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://parilka.by/var/upload/file/27346233940.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://glass-haus.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/4e0f2c1bb5efaa098f35aecaca3cfe8d/kuselujod.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://greenbins.ca/ckfinder/userfiles/files/20409127671.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://test-immo.com/file/tepomatopetisosagi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ontech.vn/images/ckeditor/files/zijavolirusigored.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ottotech.center/userfiles/file/96108985398.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://chaletsuenodesol.de/files/70436652735.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://rescue.bg/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/161303e6b775d7---38391135115.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://triumphtoday.org/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1613511b61e649---96215181534.pdfIn 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://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_off0000df6d.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xDF6D 10492 bytes
SHA-256: bab63b8be1561bb250ecd89244f3f217647eee59de566613ce25a80eefc17813
font_01_sfnt_off0000f714.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF714 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_02_sfnt_off00010f26.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x10F26 18320 bytes
SHA-256: e22f150342eb5899740847e78e20d237c05155356054d72e3ba88cff53d6c4bb