Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 14e3f0d14358eec2…

MALICIOUS

PDF

79.1 KB Created: 2021-09-20 02:18:52 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-24
MD5: 77e8203e4ad96b96fb19562bdb83a2bb SHA-1: ee293149a15ea1de41fd51f9f76ec2e8e85a07b0 SHA-256: 14e3f0d14358eec2c7886ba90955fe745736ee7fb81860c273a8f698f650808a
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF was flagged by a machine learning classifier and ClamAV as malicious, specifically as a phishing trojan. Heuristics indicate it functions as a link farm, directing users to multiple distinct, potentially compromised or disposable hosting domains. The presence of numerous unknown URLs, many hosted on suspicious subdomains or using form-upload plugins, strongly suggests an attempt to distribute further malicious content or conduct phishing operations.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9975

Heuristics 6

  • ClamAV: Pdf.Phishing.Trojan-d2528dad23a95d95-d2528dad23a95d95-10044376-0 critical CLAMAV_DETECTION
    ClamAV detected this file as malware: Pdf.Phishing.Trojan-d2528dad23a95d95-d2528dad23a95d95-10044376-0
  • 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://zulassungsdienst4you.de/bilder/file/pomafo.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://vln.nl/files/file/fegap.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://detmers-kontejner.hr/files/50429011115.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://dynasty888.com/image/files/20210913_114812.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://canoeing.by/pics/files/22899224922.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://planbmedia.hu/files/dixolijezepuril.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://hawaii-resort.info/images/blog/file/vofatesanekusixosiwunuxol.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://laneopx.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1614345f52c3c9---megebiwivulonuxuvem.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://goooinggroup.com/userfiles/files/20210901_211451.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://aroma-es.red/yamituki-n/uploads/files/ripojajifaziter.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://lichnyiybrand.ru/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1612e9b96b76f0---rofenaxiwu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://galedo.cz/www/data/cms_files/files/26586475148.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://123kozijnofferte.nl/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/2214c96154a7897591faab1207d276ce/fuwozepewisetelomo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://dreambeauty.kr/upload/fckeditor/file/64075359551.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://himalayakebab.irafbrothers.com/shipinc/userfiles/files/tevatamibitifafu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://xn--hazrdner-r4a10d.com/alisveris/yollanan_resimler/file/mesufanijexizenuzodavew.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ecohort.info/userfiles/files/41790732256.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://mldom.xyz/web/img/podborky/files/lusigovikufomutew.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://fillaracingacademy.cz/ckfinder/userfiles/files/xolusi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://viral-list-monster.com/ckfinder/userfiles/publics/files/damajumelatujaz.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://chelseafoodmart.com/uploads/files/vomusuw.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.myhhsi.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/a2c7176a2ac01acc835f146c6037edd8/lajatodonipumif.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.thaitofu.com/image/upload/File/81757569872.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://pcwenhua.com/uploadimg/file/16304758271279417454.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://nyitotthaz.hu/userfiles/files/67674175270.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Uplcv/~3/PmAiG5ZyT-k/uplcv?utm_term=fully+reset+android+phonePDF 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_off0000d0ad.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xD0AD 17736 bytes
SHA-256: 071f9e23ed3fac842b750651ee68d5b6591b822e60671b3237721d8e84b679e4
font_01_sfnt_off0000fe24.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xFE24 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_02_sfnt_off0001163b.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x1163B 10680 bytes
SHA-256: 7108accf95fbc6246d9f8b5a5b59dde65fe8e0aadb4d73b410858526db64947a