Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 514f19641b642810…

MALICIOUS

PDF

98.8 KB Created: 2021-06-25 14:48:45 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3)
MD5: c14685199bbe3fdd10048201f8ae45ca SHA-1: 23ed703339672a33abbbd27867e61421e7c6f662 SHA-256: 514f19641b64281065faef42a551fb24c5cd45d6926ec2281f4c77a2ec793e5c
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF contains numerous links pointing to compromised WordPress sites, indicating a link farm designed to redirect users to malicious content. The ML classifier and ClamAV detection strongly suggest malicious intent, likely for phishing or malware distribution. The presence of multiple external URIs and compromised CMS upload links points towards an attempt to leverage these sites for hosting or redirecting to malicious payloads.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9988

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://www.rath-catering.de/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160aa1d9814da0---zisejaverip.pdf
    • https://www.straightmyteeth.eu/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/6a1242c1bbb21a3079790b423b11f46a/mokoxuf.pdf
    • https://pluckywize.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160d1a0b21adc5---biduxirupug.pdf
    • http://www.deopendeur.org/imgUser/file/78887333016.pdf
    • https://mandalaconfeccao.com.br/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608987571ad62---relav.pdf
    • https://simovi.mx/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609f61e3dab5b---puzisanifojemanegowuvin.pdf
    • http://hydrogears.com/survey/userfiles/files/81209535998.pdf
    • https://abril.pe/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/pgv8i687j8s13617c7ee7e6p33/zufofetip.pdf
    • http://www.investing-in-women.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16078ed10ee9bf---81331695233.pdf
    • http://logansport1971.com/clients/4/42/424235dfd0fdcd2d3cc2afd1e16bb83e/File/liduke.pdf
    • http://duonglaohanoi.com/userfiles/file/9675012371.pdf
    • https://trsbarriersdirect.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/vnbedejb6bckuvbelpqbbpjqnh/71262853918.pdf
    • http://www.dj-csnl.nl/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160aba16ac3bdc---86655456927.pdf
    • https://metroguards.com.au/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609adb40e026b---76355430917.pdf
    • http://harasim.cz/uploaded/files/59637881976.pdf
    • https://techson-cctv.com/upload/file/81517985447.pdf
    • http://thehawthornnyc.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1606c97bdbc991---zafesilomoxiwoji.pdf
    • https://elpmarketing.ca/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/9f055d105dd2b29a6102a78f3816254a/ditufi.pdf
    • https://adiwirawanbali.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/bc717f214c364c8444911a2e32fb2b88/932427598.pdf
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Uplcv/~3/1KS0DP0cxss/uplcv?utm_term=square+root+of+340
    • http://www.w3.org/1999/02/22-rdf-syntax-ns#
    • http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/
    • http://ns.adobe.com/pdf/1.3/
    • http://ns.adobe.com/xap/1.0/
    • http://ns.adobe.com/xap/1.0/mm/
    • http://ns.adobe.com/xap/1.0/rights/
    • http://dejavu.sourceforge.net
    • http://dejavu.sourceforge.net/wiki/index.php/License

Extracted artifacts 3

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
font_00_sfnt_off00011eaa.bin
c017b4aa3301e2c94dd972c49bac05d49b3c0cadd41ac72cf3c6c561007c6e2b
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x11EAA 17760 bytes
font_01_sfnt_off00014ce1.bin
cacd29bad3ed23b1b26eaf7ee9e3fc2cd7c1529d1fa256e2c9f41828d8112486
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x14CE1 10492 bytes
font_02_sfnt_off000164f8.bin
9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x164F8 16792 bytes