Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 14f12e9fd0fa8261…

MALICIOUS

PDF

94.8 KB Created: 2021-07-02 17:45:02 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-09-14
MD5: 0311b3c413ce9ee2a29df0e1ab5b9652 SHA-1: 016373ad953306189e01c103c62e4861924f57be SHA-256: 14f12e9fd0fa82617a224cd5f03d003636dbfb46785426d971ba10a48dcfed35
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

The PDF contains numerous links, many pointing to compromised WordPress sites, suggesting a link farm or phishing lure. The ClamAV detection and ML classifier strongly indicate malicious intent, specifically a phishing trojan. While no scripts were explicitly extracted, the PDF structure and link farm behavior are indicative of a malicious document designed to redirect users to potentially harmful content.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9935

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 http://trenermichal.pl/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608cfdb4e0a14---48831888609.pdf In PDF document text
    • https://bomberosdenavarra.com/userfiles_nexo/files/sazobemexowuwufa.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://tamtam.com.ua/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/5f27aa8904aa1ea21128eb4eeebb5dd7/zusesifusofo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.jesuseslaroca.org/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16074ac83e0270---lareduke.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://sckprime.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/ab91a934ede5f063641784646d462553/48869603381.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://01host.ru/userfiles/files/15595131798.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://sartor.ru/upload/files/16531535549.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://longvu.vn/Images_upload/files/12112177852.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://bayzones.com/fckeditor/editor/filemanager/connectors/php/userfiles/file/jamigifil.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://fokusmedia.com/images/uploads/govoxuvorapazexugikola.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://sibleyestateplanning.com/customer/3/d/9/3d947ad6ce2568d98b832ccf5548371bFile/bepiwazotexewiwasafakina.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.histoiresdegroupes.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160b48960580f5---19029790529.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.inhd.com.br/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160bf3ee542af8---53534994683.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://directprocessors.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160b122789af32---ririgogav.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://tumwebthailand.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/11270153772.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://victorylimo1.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16084c30b80076---50039657594.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://kochi-mimoto-iin.com/TakamatsuClinic/userfiles/file/zilaledi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://nacyc.jp/Upload/file/64065209696.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://backkwang.com/userData/board/file/39268583520.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://bundoreh.com/fckeditor/files/file/dowususumobapewopop.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.corridar.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/lg1mhn93menr5dpuppopan196f/bigopusodutemabal.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://loan-financial.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/da7d16d2ffd0e3bba2b0fd917a5d4ac4/54719858810.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.schroedersales.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/d8cb63ec7f4c1f233a1603456bfef6ea/22869291517.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://deauville.ru/files/file/nusazolizanujuxalagotovo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Uplcv/~3/ngfLrbzwjls/uplcv?utm_term=technical+phone+interview+questions+and+answersPDF 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_off00010de6.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x10DE6 17636 bytes
SHA-256: 09ca2846acb2d57fef2c763fe30405dcb3283cd4c4af5af531ac0c71f653ca86
font_01_sfnt_off00013c6b.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x13C6B 10972 bytes
SHA-256: 5db018ad909004c095c247c56c3d8d728806d08e42ce7692302671f0d75437d5
font_02_sfnt_off000155aa.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x155AA 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1