Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 14fe7c8f65e37050…

MALICIOUS

PDF

81.9 KB Created: 2021-09-07 05:57:10 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-04
MD5: 465142df7e0ed19c2ec33c4e2761d725 SHA-1: f40eed61f02e809c07b9de19eb601a9b665d058f SHA-256: 14fe7c8f65e3705019e077df8abe915c5034df094c34225b06392da4471f1526
176 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

This PDF document was flagged as malicious by ClamAV and an ML classifier. It uses a callback-phone (TOAD) lure. The file embeds a large number of external links characteristic of an SEO link farm, many hosted on compromised CMS upload directories. Specific URLs and indicators for this sample are listed in the indicators section.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9951

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.
  • Callback phishing phone lure medium SE_CALLBACK_LURE
    Document asks the user to call a phone number in billing, refund, subscription, fraud, or security context — consistent with callback phishing or tech-support scam patterns. Suppressed for legitimate-issuer (IRS/gov/official-form) documents that carry no urgency or charge/dispute escalation.
  • 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://archism.ru/uplcv?utm_term=jazz+piano+scales+abrsm+pdf PDF link annotation
    • http://fittbike.hu/files/file/66433444978.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.yevres.fr/ckfinder/userfiles/files/3762038430.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://atlantichomeportugal.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607bf8806aef2---82534366311.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://chieusangducphat.com/uploads/userfiles/file/39562841911.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://staractivecollection.com/resimler/site/files/momuxuninebibaduxoxi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.d-table.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/80e51dcd1110b3ec6044ad016670aad9/damuganuxatezekere.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://nuyewpilot.academy/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/287b0e755ec379d735d7f9bac3e8b307/74571627815.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ladispensadicampagna.it/uploads/assets/file/27822945787.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://miamiwars.pl/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/9f0448e0b6b525ecd4af78228a5797f6/35612475378.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://robertfeinberglaw.com/images/edit_images/file/14116438249.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.liveartsaskatchewan.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a78d3fb201a---85672282132.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://mpu-beratung-brendle.de/userfiles/file/94348067203.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.ncstarim.com.tr/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/p923itv8gvpc59rdgkfcg1bh41/16516005314.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://localhomesales.com.au/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608c6d356eea6---52248885457.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://divorcefinance.nl/uploads/file/62684813518.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://pnmanagementsolutions.in/uploads/8769042579.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://szsahsh.com/uploads/files/71873794876.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://coimbrasoftware.hu/images/uploads/files/teraguzazamozitibo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://groupkaishan.com/d/files/77553154222.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://arunimaflavours.com/userfiles/file/gagureforarijonimolun.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.radioemka.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607023c29ff83---34836231632.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://soudurelauziere.com/upload/editor/file/43073767751.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://mega-stainlesssteel.com/uploads/image/files/rofujinumikizatatupu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://pamatudarbai.lt/ckfinder/userfiles/files/reditibutejonakijitoli.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://mytalk7.com/_UploadFile/Images/file/84695059747.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_off0000d998.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xD998 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_01_sfnt_off0000f1af.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF1AF 10876 bytes
SHA-256: 523944f3d5881935d3a4dffd806811a960d189288ee3e21ce2e0669e2230a27f
font_02_sfnt_off00010a97.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x10A97 18312 bytes
SHA-256: a6f8ea5394cb26bd9692cd29541973749dc5e743159f96dee7107b65ddb789d8