Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 514ec795cc62c33e…

MALICIOUS

PDF

85.9 KB Created: 2021-09-15 13:48:15 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-11-02
MD5: 18f210992939b7d0999fc1a1c9ee31f3 SHA-1: 8ac0265438a29df0b10d22f977b3ddbd9dd430e5 SHA-256: 514ec795cc62c33ed027e08e410c529160de8c2017c735f2fd9abcd90bb3ea0d
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF file was detected as malicious by ClamAV and an ML classifier, indicating a high likelihood of malicious intent. Heuristics identified it as a link farm, with multiple URLs pointing to potentially compromised or disposable hosting. The presence of these links suggests the document's purpose is to redirect users to external sites, likely for phishing or to download further malicious content.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9138

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://thanhlapcongtykiengiang.com/upload/ck/files/22929657438.pdf In PDF document text
    • https://valstybestarnyba.com/upckfinder/files/95310837614.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://kmbb.at/userfiles/file/dugamo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://capri.lt/userfiles/files/zowazimuvapuzif.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ibrahimabuomira.com/ckeditor/ckfinder/userfiles/files/90831048681.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://studio45.live/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/mish1mqhjfiq0nallq5e8rnh24/mujepafogasavutowolifejob.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://xn--42-6kcdlkbomh7beggito5p.xn--p1ai/userfiles/file/doroka.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.kroonzuivel.nl/ckfinder/userfiles/files/11916808622.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://dentalcenterstudio.it/userfiles/files/vawexidugiroxokod.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://cbelmira.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/323b7dc45ca689bc9c70f05336588e33/24066085157.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://asu78.ru/userfiles/file/54050810642.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://bimbrlata.cz/UserFiles/File/dawuvonijuzudif.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ilovestory.com/upload/file/69771022040.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://actlogistic.vn/upload/editor/files/27237264105.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://rallstarawards.us/nbloom/fckuploads/file/35016768888.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://rent-lease-no1.com/userfiles/file/20210904163654.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ferado.vn/userfiles/file/kadarenamasupokukupew.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://zenkatsu.dk/files/67743222858.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://houselandia.ru/files/81645345859.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://canadianartistic.com/userfiles/file/rozoparavefolisigasimapir.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://plkorea77.com/ckupload/files/maperekebabokujedejebika.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://reutlinger.pl/userfiles/file/21400531291.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://member-amz-seller-system.de/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/f6da0127b603ca805f84423f86f059f2/fogeni.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/1eyvgo/aqOO/~3/1xuhb7AK25c/uplcv?utm_term=sistema+de+diamantes+billar+pdfPDF link annotation
    • 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_off0000ef09.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xEF09 19776 bytes
SHA-256: aa4ff98569fb1751039086c65718265af79011885aea68c72014cd332d8f5b40
font_01_sfnt_off00012195.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x12195 10756 bytes
SHA-256: 7604922ec4aa5317ca1a8c3551ef0c2779892903beda9b85a08622b53cf925d8
font_02_sfnt_off00013a0a.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x13A0A 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1