Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 14fafe27969b1250…

MALICIOUS

PDF

69.2 KB Created: 2021-09-30 15:48:57 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-11-24
MD5: d2dc7a763629c52e93cae360f324b8a8 SHA-1: f1e631c035e505ce68b79aa8ea31557b80ab2763 SHA-256: 14fafe27969b1250d73335550d5b8876330cd588151b5672e09089db6d23384e
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF contains numerous embedded URLs, many pointing to disposable hosting and compromised CMS upload directories, forming a link farm. The ML classifier and ClamAV detection strongly indicate malicious intent, likely phishing or malware distribution. The presence of external URIs and link farms suggests an attempt to redirect the user to a malicious site, aligning with spearphishing tactics.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9950

Heuristics 6

  • ClamAV: Pdf.Phishing.Trojan-d2528dad23a95d95-d2528dad23a95d95-10044376-0 critical CLAMAV_DETECTION
    ClamAV detected this file as malware: Pdf.Phishing.Trojan-d2528dad23a95d95-d2528dad23a95d95-10044376-0
  • 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://krisoc.ru/uplcv?utm_term=avatar+the+last+airbender+book+3+watch+online PDF link annotation
    • http://imagespa.mx/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/161481dbbde4ca---6511683659.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://b40555.handyfriendship.com/upload/files/99501352101.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ramenhajimetustin.com/uploads/files/55706872985.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://sushiloverca.com/uploads/files/18494760071.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://bebaldebaran.eu/userfiles/files/2702215400.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://nepalfinepashmina.com/userfiles/file/385532581.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://alltimescare.com/attachment/files/31874401595.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://bibliotheque-des-arts.ch/ckfinder/userfiles/files/90679563540.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://cioccolatogallucci.it/userfiles/file/kafepor.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://vrtaspol.cz/klienti/devel/sneznerolby.cz/ckfinder/userfiles/files/kugidutimodofefomufo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://funagamex.vn/PhuongNamGroup/userfiles/files/97224417899.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://recviem.ru/img/upload/lanoja.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://milsagliksen.org/upload/ckfinder/files/46267386360.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://modnyi-buket.ru/uploads/files/xufasefabafuwax.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://mayxaydungthienlong.com/uploads/files/files/28643308729.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://myapartment.de/web/editor/files/17517748688.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.drserapkagan.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/n00r7c0le5ev725qub5s3lh1f4/6975861637.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.gieskestukadoors.nl/ckfinder/files/files/piropuvi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://senvietsystem.com/ckeditor/upload/files/xokaweduna.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://aotem.com/data/home/qxu1780220113/htdocs/uploadfile/files/38578448117.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://villanakarin.com/userfiles/files/37938047473.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://giga-tronics.com/userfiles/files/68382445941.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://thanhlapcongtykiengiang.com/upload/ck/files/fuziwawozaw.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://visaonline-vn.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/86ej4npqlse9ap461tua5dlnms/37706496230.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.kevinbrooks.ca/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16149a72cd3891---64946662433.pdfIn PDF document text
    • 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_off0000af71.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xAF71 11004 bytes
SHA-256: 165effa98468d0b522ca4651b727a4a164917848b1a7d1653fc14ad2bd7a9f0e
font_01_sfnt_off0000c910.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xC910 14656 bytes
SHA-256: a662c23006edcbaebe2ba5d113bcd7715f39e977d9bc3024771fd71e91238f30
font_02_sfnt_off0000ed47.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xED47 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1