Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 14d5735f2dd74bee…

MALICIOUS

PDF

76.9 KB Created: 2021-09-17 11:06:16 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-11-25
MD5: 9bf7f1b64daac4a16f1a353a7f5f8607 SHA-1: 19a3c5c9fc338be1e7afba9aea0f11a4ef1e3bd5 SHA-256: 14d5735f2dd74beeff4c04c6feff2dd5c3b90095ecc3173c20af296115e936c4
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment T1204.002 Malicious Link

The PDF contains numerous external URIs and link farms, with several pointing to compromised CMS upload directories. The ML classifier and ClamAV detection strongly indicate malicious intent, likely for phishing or distributing further malware through these links. The document body is unreadable, but the heuristic findings are sufficient to determine the attack pattern.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9980

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://crewmak.ru/uplcv?utm_term=clavier+espagnol+android PDF link annotation
    • http://www.dereformasenalicante.com/archivos/files/9414496469.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://wmc21.com/ckupload/files/34084845755.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://mountmedpharmacy.co.za/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1613280bf8ff85---78261860379.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.hj-bouwt.be/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1613a7ab7d7b9c---golukovidat.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://wgadget.com/file_media/file_image/file/baxuwavolozovorupu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://maymaygiaydachidang.com/upload/files/51445417827.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://mawaevents.com/uploads/file/bulepabimuvufewapepivovux.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://logistra.fr/ressource/site-image/files/xosuw.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ofitecnic.es/files.ofitecnic/fck_up/file/63088291420.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://luchetti.it/userfiles/files/bamezujajipozavut.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://alarrabnews.com/images/content/content/file/kudenoxuzifuxaso.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://valubil.com/public/uploads/cms_file/cms_files/37572052774.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://morenoroofing.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16140adc7bfcc0---xuwedudolujedobaxazupep.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://actinq.nl/upload/file/lubutozudaga.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://studiolorenzino.eu/userfiles/files/40661868375.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://summitremodelinginc.com/userfiles/files/fagap.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://manilag.com/FileData/ckfinder/files/20210906_459083F167EF6D4B.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://musorcentrum.hu/files/article/file/91473615284.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://whitelightdesign.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/49e71c226dd8f0121d34d6f321dbbd9e/86293510999.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://vilniausgreziniai.lt/userfiles/file/76637555247.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://aldea.work/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/f6d2ea70a2446a9d793fcadf80613c24/povimiretijevibetubodex.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://hunglivet.com/uploads/files/202109162347042230.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_off0000c351.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xC351 10564 bytes
SHA-256: 66fbec5fa711ae1ad1ba3b6d2f6c901fc0040e4fb75a0f48c326a1efb38f8498
font_01_sfnt_off0000db4d.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xDB4D 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_02_sfnt_off0000f35f.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF35F 19480 bytes
SHA-256: 9c4cfa80f63c3d8ac79556e29956131e4722e4a4e76f28834125df062cdf751f