Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 5e14cda32d0cbd81…

MALICIOUS

PDF

80.9 KB Created: 2021-06-29 11:10:36 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-08-25
MD5: 2f401659b971eb9de44f5097262fd8b6 SHA-1: fdf1f892f10c9f67b9d9425b0aa62253e38a4e6a SHA-256: 5e14cda32d0cbd81686cbcddaf179dc7b48d22cf02e9218b1fccf9b009fc56d0
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment T1204.002 Malicious Link

This PDF was flagged by multiple heuristics as malicious, including a high-confidence ML classifier and ClamAV detection. It functions as a link farm, containing numerous URLs pointing to compromised WordPress sites, likely intended to lure users into downloading further malicious content or engaging in phishing. The document body is unreadable, but the presence of these links strongly suggests a malicious intent.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9949

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://lightingsystemscol.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/83167c2bb650c33082f38616bb4484ff/41357598434.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://bjbtrh.com/files/pic/file/jeserubixuwan.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://simovi.mx/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160801e823144e---bozubanagafudabo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://lienlacanien.com/img_pages/file/43649200935.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.gesas.it/media/mailinglist/file/sogivisekapedi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://diagonal.org.ar/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1606cba2f3435a---10527830382.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.timtransportes.com/home/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a8d9a8c103a---sijiz.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://mgmkt.com.br/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607c9d7f89f92---84071004151.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://clearlakesd.org/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160787996cc004---13950638323.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://clair-environnement.eu/catalogue_dynamique/file/vizapunanukagamu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://lightupalife.org.uk/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16097c96090c3d---93856858756.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://garmagostaran.com/Upload/file/wiwenukuzuwegopor.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.conkite.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/01e5f8a1635b417d7a613bc9f384211a/lamedalegimonel.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://artospace.com/pics/file/53170772333.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://oneremote.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/8772791abc2ea3cccb33fe6b2c122a21/39569800319.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.viksexteriors.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607b714d2fad3---boditinubigemarixiwirug.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://kimtuong.vn/isc/public/files/fckupload/file/56707731691.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://avtoarka.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/b30d4cd1171396feaad7a2e9d013ddc5/68559689398.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.hotel-margherita.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160c50ec83c043---21431950653.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://foto-klub.dk/userfiles/file/42991918447.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://advancedbusiness.co/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/dea907818627ab2a9cfd4e7b70f895ae/53941354471.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.gcsystem.pl/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160808bcc60fc3---85028450480.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://keralabiblesociety.com/fck_uploads/file/58408212416.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://a-daily.jp/app/webroot/contents_img/files/18031435556.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://sieuthimaytinhcu.vn/upload/files/juladisal.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/skout/mBVl/~3/3vuEKuznOb8/uplcv?utm_term=how+to+use+notepad%2B%2B+for+htmlPDF 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_off0000db99.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xDB99 10848 bytes
SHA-256: 3357dac71f1c11321818f13f92928e3881a534234a1464d1d49320aadcf7c2bf
font_01_sfnt_off0000f480.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF480 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_02_sfnt_off00010c92.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x10C92 16216 bytes
SHA-256: 9fcb286188148d05d0aa67b50fe5d9c2d2409d6d8dc9b41203a5157507159808