Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 14ee54d2ef552327…

MALICIOUS

PDF

70.1 KB Created: 2021-09-17 13:21:44 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-26
MD5: cd79937e516aac3899b9ddbb3d15217f SHA-1: 620afd3b2ee4ca348d4c2647827670fa20e1cb38 SHA-256: 14ee54d2ef552327ea72f8129562b20be9b1f46105ae8126a7091d3dd11c6e00
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF contains a link farm with numerous URLs hosted on compromised CMS upload storage and disposable hosting, 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 patterns are indicative of a malicious document designed to lure users to external sites.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9916

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://markzone.az/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/0cnjf5uu46pl1v80gumn1706lj/zibulovabetim.pdf In PDF document text
    • https://accesoriosalmayor.com/images/userfiles/file/penibesuredutu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://foulardfotografando.it/file/kikozimarizamep.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://globalsocialwlefaresummit.com/app/webroot/uploads/ckuploads/files/28208036344.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cissud.it/uploads/ck_editor/files/40796400340.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://cokhivietuc.webthoidai.com/img-vietuc/files/puguvowafitanabo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://doanhnghiepvietnam.org/img_duhoc/files/gopikudejovegisa.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://snnet.kr/board_pds/fckeditor/2021/09/file/muxebi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://thriveelearning.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/923c8e0f125dd8bc496ac01e937f5bc7/29383145361.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://henghuitong.com/jingkelun/userfiles/files/20210911023045.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://salwex.hu/file/xomunafikalojimugisaro.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://promptcorporate.com/ckeditor/ckfinder/userfiles/files/wikenibezuxoremida.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://promise-land.com/upload/file/97679636754.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://tatooazh.ru/files/files/zagosivoretutixi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://korvioinfotech.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/ponapalimozu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://titishop.co/upload/files/zemufuwi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ifaistos.reality.gr/~triantaf/images/file/legapojitexaf.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://globalathena.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/82813351315.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://vmkstroi.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/2909911528aaad1cfe11eea7676ee639/35638844206.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://milsagliksen.org/upload/ckfinder/files/80878621468.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.grecosalesinternational.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1614048881606f---tekuxufivosogatuletixir.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://teknis.it/userfiles/files/julanasejipepijofufojegal.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://dancleland.com/img/upload/file/tibavabevex.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://grandfiltr.com/files/file/budojofo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://rialta.ie/userfiles/files/kexewi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.a-fairys-choice.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16132707876594---xenameboroxapesinumebajaw.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Uplcv/~3/DOqCt-cVA4I/uplcv?utm_term=reface+app+for+freePDF 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_off0000b7a3.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xB7A3 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_01_sfnt_off0000cfba.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xCFBA 10012 bytes
SHA-256: 51a3c454365b673f0515aeb4a136252596fc7867e88db573571f8ea77a31bcac
font_02_sfnt_off0000e60d.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xE60D 14724 bytes
SHA-256: 1078c577f4f16778e66d53f618bf01c80527614e1ad4a3843c7fc92900a4e1c0