Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 14fd2c6426ad6a5d…

MALICIOUS

PDF

90.2 KB Created: 2021-08-11 12:48:03 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-11-03
MD5: 71abc6b4c66fa4d6a5f99451d7fb7fd5 SHA-1: 5d468ef05a0c9d4f6eaa3b0e3e60fed07c2cb428 SHA-256: 14fd2c6426ad6a5d098482883b37fede3f247912a32265ff1447880e2e7cf3eb
96 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

The PDF contains numerous embedded URLs, many of which point to compromised WordPress installations or disposable hosting, indicating a link farm. The ML classifier also flagged this PDF as malicious. While no scripts were extracted, the structure and URL patterns suggest an attempt to lure users to external sites, potentially for phishing or malware distribution.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9876

Heuristics 5

  • 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.entornopublicitario.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/5f61fc0356777193080ca06e3efbb38a/lirajomitodevuginekegukuz.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://hk-dcc.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/0h7hnrns1tse244516sa4c82k2/dezebemebedixamamo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://pincailight.com/zk/UploadFile/file/2021061913134473499.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://milliondollardesiclub.com/upload_files/featured/files/84415639981.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://asiajitu.com/contents//files/50617666110.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.brennholz-heinlein.de/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160b865f78d6a2---wutujesorixiwoped.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://investinwielkopolska.pl/application/lib/ckfinder/userfiles/files/8248929206.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://a2designbg.com/userfiles/file/55575023263.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.virtualaid.eu/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1606c9c1f0c68c---16314632571.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://vstarmp.cn/upload/files/20210708_011841.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://retco.ge/ckfinder/userfiles/files/45758582583.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://midel.me/userfiles/file/fusanowari.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://akbmodel.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160792537601cf---naxix.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://aksaaydinlatma.com/img/editor/image/file/sezukasojibutupetebovut.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://archltginc.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/60e2c313417efe25b5f12ee2511b79bd/rogowuzojus.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://bizdrive.nl/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1/16077d5b6e82c5---neponikimokujevefok.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://wscnaturalhealings.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/a3fbc12b84907fbeba696cfaf75ff852/8009322135.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://markyatirim.com/resimler/files/tudosiwuvujiwajazezin.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://afanasyev-design.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/d802219f15e67e9ec316d1024ccc17e1/bujizukitoreva.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.goldenlantern.co.za/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608d9f63eef64---73028283575.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://jysfh.com/upload_fck/file/2021-8-6/20210806121426177907.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ajwatravel.com/wheelmarine/userfiles/file/27062792358.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://teenvolunteer.org/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/e055850417ef9c3ef71f8fd516acce1b/misefe.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.cenlajobinator.com/siteuploads/editorimg/file/4512432713.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://baxsporthorses.com/userfiles/file/norus.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://marksiegeldds.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/8c2ac709ee1ed417c131525ffd5f9b86/4644550253.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/skout/mBVl/~3/Om9ozkHLxGw/uplcv?utm_term=como+calcular+a+corrente+do+primario+de+um+transformadorPDF 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_off0000f645.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF645 19632 bytes
SHA-256: d61510b4c54def5f78b9f31d6b5a41343a1d84152ab6cb6b82b1c2aaa1cc6e7d
font_01_sfnt_off000125b3.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x125B3 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_02_sfnt_off00013dca.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x13DCA 10912 bytes
SHA-256: 30f64663fffd6d97d5433280ddc8aed3d0d091aa0113adb70c7518d6109a9557