Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 14e0f23a57be19b3…

MALICIOUS

PDF

77.3 KB Created: 2021-09-07 05:58:33 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-27
MD5: 3aaf37ef835eeacf54af9fe7b1e202e5 SHA-1: 9b3088c8c75ec08797284443e23c1075ec289a8f SHA-256: 14e0f23a57be19b377bb90393ca55492b1645368784be157bf7be7c158551e72
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF contains a link farm pointing to multiple compromised WordPress sites, indicating a phishing or malware distribution attempt. The ML classifier and ClamAV detection strongly suggest malicious intent. No scripts were extracted, but the structure and URL targets are indicative of a malicious document.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9973

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://www.focus.mu/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/d7ca68561852a482c8cb8d1bb0237ce2/sofububumoxukubesusarekal.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://1carl.com/userfiles/file/vonamu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.saenger-ohg.de/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160ab9f378a717---kodokifotosake.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://childconnect.com/swi/fckfiles//file/balidenenu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://themodernla.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/044577fcc69e328cd5cdbb5dbcd1d9c5/vafokefizodavelikukuper.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://sartor.ru/upload/files/24386962637.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://mikailang.net/userfiles/file/20210825051218_1245886094.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://freshchannels.com/home/sites/freshchannels/public_html/ckfinder/userfiles/files/12448411729.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://tbm-mova.by/images_from_html_editor/file/netuxugedoxotexagopuso.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://aaykpn.com/uploads/editor/files/mepupizaluvulisixuvewawu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://kennyre.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/161338342340ca---pofoxobe.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.opencalgary.org/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609bebfeaf85d---vasim.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://amiablediamonds.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/f26474dfea2f4db3acda8dbc685c573a/kimiwa.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://xn--80aadq3ae7aa5k.xn--p1ai/upload/file/28755419109.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://vendsol.com/userfiles/file/74381793777.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://brs.jo/userfiles/files/pisodosaretogigipuw.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://emmaushuis.org/pages/39937767954.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.associatedomains.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160abe3e26d4e4---defemewikejalimajufowasid.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://certifiedcollisionrepair.com/home/cert/public_html/ckfinder/userfiles/files/nugeme.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://radtel-sport.pl/userfiles/file/31906857586.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://yao-cheng.com/uploadfiles/20210707002944.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.kasekimi.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1606d859c17640---nabelatibas.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://champagne-marc-chauvet.com/images/files/lozofawewolu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://sistarelaw.com/customer/3/d/9/3d947ad6ce2568d98b832ccf5548371bFile/28931235490.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/1eyvgo/aqOO/~3/ngfLrbzwjls/uplcv?utm_term=halves+and+quarters+fractions+worksheetsPDF 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_off0000c9b7.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xC9B7 11052 bytes
SHA-256: cfd12ff2d17c07ff2142bb467b7ffa941dd96a2d92b70987f40e707bb909f981
font_01_sfnt_off0000e334.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xE334 17320 bytes
SHA-256: 8a778e489b16fe36adeeef0ce09e4e02e979630241c4495285f127918c33b61c
font_02_sfnt_off00010f1b.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x10F1B 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1