Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 14fd04efa4c00d98…

MALICIOUS

PDF

97.1 KB Created: 2021-06-30 13:54:38 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-11-20
MD5: e66c4aff80b04169d6cfade3038285b0 SHA-1: 38a0869053f3e3f686a4e834842bd937b476204d SHA-256: 14fd04efa4c00d98467e7352b64983c20b5d3f9cb11f4fb8260cddd0169e2e40
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

The PDF file contains numerous links to external websites, many hosted on compromised WordPress installations, suggesting a link farm designed to redirect users to malicious content. The ClamAV detection and ML classifier strongly indicate malicious intent, likely for phishing or malware distribution. Although no scripts were explicitly extracted, the PDF structure and embedded URLs are indicative of a malicious document.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9806

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://infrive.ru/uplcv?utm_term=best+free+horse+games+for+pc PDF link annotation
    • http://kaufdeinauto.de/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160b0e712dccc5---38111314207.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://medicinasolidale.org/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/60c0379633bfe3bfd9302505eb9be74f/6968815746.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://lasvegasrebath.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/86fc565f614dbb526ff718c98ca42172/60170089176.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://friluftsgruppen.se/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607ea6730bc59---96543399400.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://robwalker.net/fckupload/file/rujufijalogezazemox.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://asesoriagarpe.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160856ef229db2---65766064038.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://spherule.org/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/jtaji716cq6pqdtn7848ha7fj2/24024144868.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://duext.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/fc601983e45fa9a942f8f835f9d1df72/73356573112.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://1960vonsteuben.com/clients/d/df/dfb5e1b83ea85bfdc5ef1da934264264/File/7600970131.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://mygenius.ru/admin/ckfinder/userfiles/files/wixusazusapebugaxomet.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://cohn-vossen.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a6ce2e29eca---gasazobavebajo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://watthaistuttgart.de/userfiles/file/10594639935.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://agiusfuneraldirectors.com/files/file/mafurukid.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://alemotta.com/resources/original/file/51397296432.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://sieckultury.pl/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/b417bc7025c1c63f15ce61b9558ec438/7411648918.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://sckprime.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/7165e8fca31b3ab541e99163e71a7717/42628389207.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://phuvuongcorp.com/luutru/files/67298164604.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://lapalettedesarts.fr/gestion/file/75562397773.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.tsssport.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1606c89b35311d---laner.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://associacaoguainumbi.org.br/wp/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16070feaab2619---87993932853.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://amezdigital.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/c4138cbb94652c46bda75f7ee588cac2/92011726953.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://signika.pl/Upload/file/98686489493.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://dabien.co.kr/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160bf916fb83fa---2099121786.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://deniz-sogutma.org/img/userfiles/file/novoboniwi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.birapart.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160d1dbd2b614d---guzitif.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://erbilsunhotel.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/r534adeijn706eaej8jtnhngk3/71450681882.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://saunadlaciebie.pl/userfiles/file/zamekuvareridigitejo.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_off00011814.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x11814 17184 bytes
SHA-256: 1d8118857c19308fd446492b825ffb4941c74b0d15cb6c5ec0f741975980ba0c
font_01_sfnt_off000144a9.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x144A9 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_02_sfnt_off00015cc0.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x15CC0 10736 bytes
SHA-256: f3a73f9ef94460232645f66740e9208d0c19f248296a634adf91540108c760ee