Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 14ecc3c624bf940b…

MALICIOUS

PDF

78.9 KB Created: 2021-08-28 15:04:55 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-04
MD5: 81c7a7b12fb8a7677f2b5051914d902b SHA-1: 89c8879d506f0b9f6d3abf4683c427cd2229fe64 SHA-256: 14ecc3c624bf940b04d2bc7febb2eb39189e9221585e32fdc41ca435d71bd258
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

This PDF document was flagged as malicious by ClamAV and an ML classifier. The file embeds a large number of external links characteristic of an SEO link farm, many hosted on compromised CMS upload directories. Specific URLs and indicators for this sample are listed in the indicators section.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9997

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.higher-energy-trampolineclub.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609084a48ecf4---xemezevud.pdf In PDF document text
    • https://www.cedicar.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a83436b1177---gefirawepavefadawaleg.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.medicalalliedtraining.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160ae5054d2248---pafidatijofuxuparinepij.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://donaldbermanmaimonidesgolf2020.com/clients/0/0d/0d43fbb8ff91cab41fa1b056c0d912a9/File/zuvirulalinimedupetison.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://xn--djr00fsyfv0o5qgy9u.net/filespath/files/20210815175431.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.antoniopopolizio.it/ckfinder/userfiles/files/ritovoxata.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://pogologistics.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/mawobirebupu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://themultifold.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/rubmbct6udc1o9igv2a47ra174/70081773612.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://donahoelawfirm.com/customer/3/d/9/3d947ad6ce2568d98b832ccf5548371bFile/78865989098.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://angkorphotographyguide.com/userfiles/file/mimefax.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://rmdschoolandcollege.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/42phfurd8novpdg3dpsjdi7qp5/57831238931.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://nocnepal.org.np/ckfinder/userfiles/files/sovijolorulotinibipikugap.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://geology.ie/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/161026dccd7d77---90162571868.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://xn--80ackbssfuieecff0e8c.xn--p1ai/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/jhsj9ubs82hcfrgfnkblff0st5/11309943432.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://infrastone.com/userfiles/files/71266236243.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://118highschool.am/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/ed43799db2a09515b1ebf2ba9ae1e5a7/delimu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://fouladsazanco.com/Upload/file/57674809899.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://taitung-house.com/CKEdit/upload/files/nuxuvevu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://sckprime.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/735cd2b33774152b1f41b1444c6a08d2/wanaz.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ceresasrl.it/userfiles/files/19256032969.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/1eyvgo/aqOO/~3/6naE_Nh8_CY/uplcv?utm_term=factors+that+affect+small+business+growth+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_off0000d0a9.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xD0A9 11372 bytes
SHA-256: 944d127240f9d9f56db43533853e81bc9637d47cff35ff995e98950c0e1f6b33
font_01_sfnt_off0000eae0.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xEAE0 16516 bytes
SHA-256: 3c2f28b5766727bc6f2eaf821f9c0048b0ac669250056444ff22171ffef4eaf8
font_02_sfnt_off0001153e.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x1153E 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1