Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 14ef07343d8950e9…

MALICIOUS

PDF

75.0 KB Created: 2021-06-23 17:30:51 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7) First seen: 2021-09-15
MD5: de810899aa922ced4a6584dda70313eb SHA-1: 330dbda633bbaf9afa1a96d685f00f5e28ff50a4 SHA-256: 14ef07343d8950e9d3f0004fd6ab27e04e92d5e813a6bc4d39f962ba7b77d611
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment T1059.007 JavaScript

The PDF file contains numerous links to external websites, many of which are hosted on compromised CMS platforms, indicating a link farm designed to redirect users to malicious content. The ML classifier and ClamAV detection strongly suggest malicious intent, likely for phishing or malware distribution. No scripts were extracted, but the heuristic firings point to a deceptive document structure.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9998

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.andrecampbell.ca/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/fd318a714569f2269adfdb93009dbcbb/19530732201.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://robalton.es/Albums/images/file/%5C/52769733755.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://noble-worldwide.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/bce74cae3f5d8b2e3206ead3933eeb0e/1004472589.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.rlktechniek.nl/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16074fa38babba---53022586700.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.bouwenaaneensterkwerkgeversmerk.nl/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160850fff60a89---baxakam.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://jar-ted.pl/file/61439232754.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.sblending.com.au/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16073d5fc1fad9---wepokotamararemosetubawad.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://leicht-spb.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/7fa16636c522815024038535ad33d325/negatagitodifo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cedarcreeksauce.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/6dc4234b91463bb085994d8fd1714d98/ratej.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ajtoablakcentrum.com/_user/file/bawirumebukekofotofuvatad.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://arerp.kr/data/file/%5C/11838429166.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://amandamaitland.com/images/file/jifidu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.sixteengrams.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/k6lmsruk654cns4oc7l1hooj1j/sopokaramanavaredogonuge.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://holzhaus-suedtirol.it/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a1ec1fd92ab---6192953148.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://christembassydocklands.org/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/bb3f73349a893f7b94159868af066b4a/risalepenemagex.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ladychief.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/59d625c3222304b4cd342eeb16e06299/99279644856.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/In PDF document text
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/typedesigners.htmlIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/1eyvgo/aqOO/~3/BkSY9tpko7c/uplcv?utm_term=alrai+newspaper+kuwait+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://scripts.sil.org/OFLIn PDF document text

Extracted artifacts 2

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
font_00_sfnt_off0000e529.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xE529 5180 bytes
SHA-256: 489d3310ba47b99bdf055108cca1ccd8d6ee8bb86e9ab5b3b2be27f2864f9b38
font_01_sfnt_off0000f6ec.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF6EC 11740 bytes
SHA-256: 1641a51784e5014f6fd5ef8248780c4abb23014c1ef611cd0524d39dc750cd19