Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 14da178a320b1434…

MALICIOUS

PDF

84.1 KB Created: 2021-09-02 04:05:45 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-11
MD5: 7cbe1a4bc7fea31007680132a6cad9e9 SHA-1: cf5e61ec764b9978b315a3b9cc83a4f07d384f0e SHA-256: 14da178a320b14347c799cecb6308b1248576cba91153ff48a24f8137f64081f
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF file was identified as malicious by a machine learning classifier and ClamAV, indicating a high likelihood of malicious intent. Heuristics reveal it functions as a link farm, with numerous URLs pointing to potentially compromised WordPress sites, suggesting a phishing or malware distribution scheme. The presence of external URIs and link farms strongly supports the classification as a malicious document.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9983

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://www.a-fairys-choice.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16073bc6a91800---jomekeguvokome.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://generaltubi.com/container/ckfiles/files/nexidetofesarupirotepipu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://sv-fin.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/07cb82bf2500b769220bae97bb126848/sewepolu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.rolstoellift.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1610a81c7c2002---9492688903.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://pianoinprimopianofestival.com/uploads/file/medewositadud.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://abwcockeysville.com/uploads/files/witozafomadewadu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://europeancustomtailor.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/f2d1285551725ec51ee497427d77a045/77191148650.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://kozelskadm.ru/files/uploads/files/fawiluvuwikujoxavuz.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://luvnchrlysenglishtoys.com/clients/861429/File/97534031381.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://swotin.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160775d3b3adeb---toretomevupaxuki.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.hdcorp.com.br/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/rmkm84ja5f8cd22bt0iv8tskh3/47567689491.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ags-car.com/upload/files/89712254370.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://hms31.ru/img/file/vimuvujip.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://rhondadejean.com/customer/3/d/9/3d947ad6ce2568d98b832ccf5548371bFile/18368097622.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://pr-dienst.ch/file/40053181166.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cbolean.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/plag4p6ouq6b68obppkka5qm35/58140593813.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://irmascaritasdejesus.org.br/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160772d9d1b6d7---xakerifugop.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ecbpolska.pl/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/1c654d34ec3fcc68c6832e74848f3c20/77497104436.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://famcareconnect.org/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160cbbece43100---zewubakusoto.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://mmszke.hu/files/file/78939174913.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://payassistinc.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607e29ce900e5---degasavifuwojoluxeza.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://tenfci.org/userfiles/file/74245804926.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://law.com.sg/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/89f39302c933b8bcc4e784374f034c89/59405851519.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://print-printonline.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/79792994018.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://hengfengpaper.com/filespath/files/20210823222536.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/skout/mBVl/~3/LPIa9PGmDLg/uplcv?utm_term=case+study+examples+in+software+engineering+pdfPDF 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_off0000e3e1.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xE3E1 16688 bytes
SHA-256: 31f0c5e502fe324845fe189721dc3d12879a556a769080c63a691160c1738ba9
font_01_sfnt_off00010f2f.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x10F2F 11272 bytes
SHA-256: a9355ae02853ecf59a3e29a395c5bac5fabbcb51ed32b3b9343bd9ebfaa86224
font_02_sfnt_off00012982.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x12982 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1