Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 14e8360b4b199853…

MALICIOUS

PDF

82.3 KB Created: 2021-09-14 09:00:09 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-14
MD5: 4269a22aaac0903da10aeff0552fea00 SHA-1: f8268d72eed7e8bdf524ba537647b693af038d23 SHA-256: 14e8360b4b199853422e35fc70ec46da28d0c9c95726838dd6e0893003e361bf
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

The PDF contains a link farm pointing to multiple compromised websites, suggesting an attempt to distribute malicious files or redirect users to phishing sites. The ML classifier and ClamAV detection strongly indicate malicious intent. The presence of numerous links on disposable or compromised hosting reinforces the phishing or malware distribution pattern.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9977

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.zav-mito.si/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1612f4b83401dd---94607104952.pdf In PDF document text
    • https://inchiriereelicopterromania.ro/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1613fe233c72cb---bogukanojixoxiz.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://toyotarent.kr/FileData/ckfinder/files/20210904_A0BF6630105620B5.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://szolnokepul.hu/userfiles/file/garifujaxaboge.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://pvcmikser.com/upload/files/wukugazekujopo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.skup.it/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1613b6c128be2f---10514199318.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://eco-translation.ca/upload/editor/file/9372272058.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://dossalas.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/5febccff782169f84ddbfdb5c1108a5a/7820377637.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://hosungtour.com/FileData/ckfinder/files/20210906_4D05A81AEEF77793.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://frangarcia.eu/upload/file/94041456057.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://em.heephong.org/ethnicminorities/cmsadmin/ckfinder/files/morajozizuvuzopug.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://kartywspomnien.pl/uploads/assets/file/munoseziwivamit.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://racecross.com/upload/edito_fckeditor/file/56238551969.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://aerotechgroup.ru/img/outer/files/2737991172.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://giayviettri.com/img-ftec/files/85445648394.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://bjyhyy.cn/filespath/files/20210901094806.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://bindashnews.com/userfiles/file/89637511577.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://fairfresh.net/assets/admin/ckeditorimage/files/41886516347.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://binarbaidrealestate.com/public_html/userfiles/file/67816960466.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.primalegal.eu/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/32gi9gun29gtf4jvj08o95dl81/jutufirer.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ehotelgateway.com/bot/ckfinder/uf/files/65304379829.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://thsport.dk/userfiles/file/80585339832.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://vnndt.com/Images_upload/files/42431531971.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/1eyvgo/aqOO/~3/ngfLrbzwjls/uplcv?utm_term=friend+remover+pro+apk+download+androidPDF 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_off0000dce7.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xDCE7 17920 bytes
SHA-256: 3de47efa5c9bdef145eb36e99262dde8b0d46a5a6ce3ca3de2c7de25812aef1b
font_01_sfnt_off00010b83.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x10B83 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_02_sfnt_off0001239a.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x1239A 10508 bytes
SHA-256: 0fc82e53c782610941f44e5563637fec39806f83b71c0765962fa05eff8d9341