Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 14e0286046e29c7b…

MALICIOUS

PDF

85.5 KB Created: 2021-06-10 18:26:26 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7) First seen: 2021-11-24
MD5: 55661e666702fedb7e541918965abd76 SHA-1: 189f6f976679646fe7c692f9d79c0de4b8a5df24 SHA-256: 14e0286046e29c7b2005c59d37219177f9f9c7979e629de31f77b04ed4cbb88c
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment T1059.007 JavaScript

The PDF file contains numerous URLs pointing to compromised WordPress sites, suggesting a link farm or phishing distribution mechanism. The ML classifier and ClamAV detection strongly indicate malicious intent, likely related to phishing or malware delivery. Although no scripts were explicitly extracted, the presence of embedded URLs and the nature of the heuristics suggest the document is designed to redirect users to malicious content.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9996

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://pistant.ru/uplcv?utm_term=modern+warplanes+sky+fighters+pvp+jet+warfare PDF link annotation
    • http://terapeutickemasaze.eu/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16082d9ddf3b82---10812838606.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.sharpeningfactory.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607709428c010---gexorivopira.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://homeaestheticsllc.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/2973e0683e55e4d0044151763d1d49f9/kisanoritikexabademute.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://math-talk.kr/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/iibrthuivq47qvber2fho5nun0/91941637251.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://thankschicken.com/uploads/files/xefazidesikivawuvube.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://connect.allianceflooring.net/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/db785c5864529217b98d9d59c1c9e645/muratu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://stcatherine.ac.ug/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16088e47ab35db---14143446436.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://kicksomeglass.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/bb95532b49f8d5794675884c81dceb8f/62759353486.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.sunaryem.com.tr/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/pc2dhej9tosesb5it6f52l73n5/sojazarukenozuwusopatozuj.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.icslights.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/713046f706897c1f9f507268d832590f/92988824081.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://lightingsystemscol.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/462290be65d91a770957804d81f65d7c/zuzeduluxogoxaxazekijela.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.dadosefatos.net.br/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1606f1720ae383---sabazikifavuvamuxilap.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://jaunimodienos.lt/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/llhbqce3sk7b4gto27rfpf3u8m/76115304576.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ivanda-commerce.hr/userfiles/file/gojujafefora.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://paintingservicesonline.ca/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608ebfc9c9cbb---25212068594.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://zetrade.cz/userfiles/file/82472009363.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://adm.allianceflooring.net/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/2db6a8a56ffa0dc1e7dea22a747f809d/xenidibezon.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
    • 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_off0000efa7.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xEFA7 5704 bytes
SHA-256: d35d50adc32b1ad12b50c9551ccbce1541c1fa8948ed7457f3752357cec81caa
font_01_sfnt_off0001032f.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x1032F 1972 bytes
SHA-256: cf0d8fb5527eae19401dfc12654250517e7a38e3cc95ac791bee53c0147e1778
font_02_sfnt_off00010ca2.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x10CA2 11196 bytes
SHA-256: 2914e76151d8d63e8794db845693387ee1eaf414b28891ad45e010c9cf40169c
font_03_sfnt_off000132bf.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x132BF 16184 bytes
SHA-256: db4dfe90584860db3f5f49892f249b880090aa480ea2de4498c08bbd8b9ab1b3