Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 14f10eb821198704…

MALICIOUS

PDF

68.8 KB Created: 2021-10-04 03:23:27 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-11-23
MD5: f4714a27a827239b6f88d6536bb59976 SHA-1: b31adad8a7dcdfc6ee6595b5e8625ba79a302a85 SHA-256: 14f10eb821198704e5b1cffe3b621762ba2d8caf470ed4ca33c53176740d2051
164 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

This PDF file was flagged by ML classifiers and ClamAV as malicious, specifically as a phishing trojan. It contains embedded JavaScript and numerous external URIs, many of which point to disposable hosting or compromised WordPress sites, indicating a link farm designed to redirect users to malicious content. The presence of embedded JavaScript suggests an attempt to execute malicious code within the PDF viewer.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9982

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.
  • Embedded JS stream low PDF_JS
    PDF references a /JS stream. Generic JavaScript is common in benign forms; specific dangerous APIs are scored by separate rules.
  • 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://eletvital.hu/uploads/files/44012841177.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://tucholainfo.pl/userfiles/file/9511863744.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ehomeforeclosure.org/images/file/354663999.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://casavacanzesanvito.eu/userfiles/files/86989188784.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://wakingbeauty.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1615378f66f599---17623496394.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://melissajacksonmd.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/161309d7457f62---92297586239.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://antwerp-rentals.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1614397259979b---769065114.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://tennis-samara.ru/img/file/7031779994.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://donateagift.eu/userfiles/file/jitewexo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://soluzionebenessere.eu/userfiles/files/mugiwalikisiwuzafofolike.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://mspchicagolaw.com/customer/3/d/9/3d947ad6ce2568d98b832ccf5548371bFile/satajobababavore.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://noithathoaphat11.com/upload/files/76233362580.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://anne-berger.de/sites/anne-berger.de/files/fkcfile/xojuku.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://hw-power.com/uploads/ckfiles/files/61381273cd56a.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://serka.com/serka/upload/files/85533157374.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://cmtoolsrental.com/user_img/files/73609293068.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://almondzwealth.com/administrator/imagetemp/file/voneribarowejamirakala.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://sunriseinnjasper.com/nbloom/fckuploads/file/kenomiwuginebetokavewokor.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://auto-spec.ca/fck/file/16190526057.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://richardchong.com/userfiles/files/tewubijijelapetuwelalare.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://clubberia.com/js/ckfinder/userfiles/files/maburubusasinerivibi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://casms.org/atts/news-files/file/24959623788.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/1eyvgo/aqOO/~3/PmAiG5ZyT-k/uplcv?utm_term=are+apples+good+for+breakfastPDF 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_off0000b10d.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xB10D 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_01_sfnt_off0000c924.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xC924 10692 bytes
SHA-256: d7ec1874188403761bdd71825d074af74f8a3cc515e045375c8be983d5291e8e
font_02_sfnt_off0000e169.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xE169 14508 bytes
SHA-256: 1cf59dd8e79ff8b130c27e5f8d1e2b90ec69f2b135d392207fc7623aee3dd0e4