Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 14ed6efec28514e3…

MALICIOUS

PDF

91.3 KB Created: 2021-07-31 01:00:25 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-11
MD5: 229ef542edd9a852495bad1cd7ab8ce8 SHA-1: ccc00011848dbde311019a13737536dfcf6dca32 SHA-256: 14ed6efec28514e3ef02a656e77b6b566f0c67bbd69794ec76225c116962e507
164 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

This PDF file was detected as malicious by ClamAV and an ML classifier, indicating a high likelihood of malicious intent. The heuristics reveal a link farm hosted on compromised CMS uploads, suggesting the document's purpose is to trick users into downloading further malicious content. The presence of multiple unknown URLs associated with these compromised sites reinforces this attack pattern.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9992

Heuristics 7

  • 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.
  • Visual download / call-to-action button lure low SE_DOWNLOAD_BUTTON
    Document contains a call-to-action phrase ('Click here to download', 'Download Now', etc.) — low-signal unless other findings point to a malicious workflow
  • 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://totalfinance.ca/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16086d381baa4a---90616950684.pdf In PDF document text
    • https://www.medicalart.com.tr/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160771d97056f8---78473511147.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://allamericannursing.com/userfiles/file/mokisulivafamo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://fantasypartyentertainment.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160b26dcb4e0bb---kufudasajaturi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://mirrorgallery.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160c3dcfb65f77---bakilexafibu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://bizdrive.nl/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1/1609104678e504---kemadojanudirake.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.picmephotoboothhire.co.uk/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a36371e6181---nijewag.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.linkkorea.co.kr/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607087d15160d---99824320205.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://nebovsem.ru/app/webroot/files/files/gadefi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://hoovermaids.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/68380fd49a0d6e4d33c271d738d3ba91/97538505033.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://paloaltospeakerseries.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/45ded92d16fb44e83cb25a15ac6c6f44/72279198465.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://newat.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/712a21a3340c5ec8121f0bded7fc3fc8/zikubanokidowojewejewuv.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://thewaves.net/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/9ecckvba8l9r3ij7f5jq7bc2tt/24866182651.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://pyhm.ca/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/pu522oapkjdj0uau63p07iqjjl/45364588272.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.celso.org/download/7646068020.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.cukoyem.com.tr/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/om35vcoga2tpt85p25dn9mfki2/mufupe.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://komputerzagrosze.pl/userfiles/file/75464235959.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://catherinehourihan.art/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/c0d469af10327e715c27bd30e672689d/71668826083.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://niestachow.pl/data/aktualnosci_imgs/file/nilevodedafemi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://photojet.bg/userfiles/file/43060186100.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://cesishotel.lv/res/wysiwyg/file/84617864549.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://wooshin.kr/uploaded/file/50402382660a52edb614fe.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Uplcv/~3/3vuEKuznOb8/uplcv?utm_term=gb+thomas+and+rl+finney+calculus+pdf+free+downloadPDF 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_off00010016.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x10016 11364 bytes
SHA-256: b7b8f4a72e4f6f427a4ac28275634043216fac42aadf2c23f4fb54c925be3771
font_01_sfnt_off00011a82.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x11A82 16844 bytes
SHA-256: 727a1c379595323a274de507e6f4eb69adc1fa7f41de24c5b29699901d87e5e4
font_02_sfnt_off0001463e.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x1463E 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1