Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 714404fcffbf05e2…

MALICIOUS

PDF

82.8 KB Created: 2021-09-01 19:56:25 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-12
MD5: ed9dc34817d023962f6bfddf1c42a094 SHA-1: 8f31276e294c14458623a971980045b0894c7eb2 SHA-256: 714404fcffbf05e2ccd4ce9fa37d4ab4c9585e5bc386642eedb05109ed0c21b5
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF contains a link farm pointing to numerous domains, many of which appear to be compromised or disposable hosting. The ML classifier and ClamAV detection strongly indicate malicious intent, likely for phishing or distributing further malware. The presence of multiple compromised CMS upload links suggests a coordinated effort to host malicious content.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9974

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://bjzjygj.com/fckeditor/editor/filemanager/connectors/php/userfiles/file/mavefujegegexubujada.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://www.northeastmarquees.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/2de53464da8bb6350b897f21c17ba073/37360311263.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://npas.ru/pic/file/xexugolali.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.keystonecare.co.uk/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/568fe965432474242390edd3d588d16a/rufifulomufu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://suhrsmad.dk/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1610ebdedaf4ca---99165558286.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://baatco.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/mofegipujeripowibapun.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://namjapizza.com/app/webroot/files/nozawojijolufa.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://smart.sut.ac.th/tsme/src/lib/ckfinder/userfiles/files/vugijekukagiwiluritame.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://selispin.com/calisma2/files/uploads/vegapezijorew.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://generaltubi.com/container/ckfiles/files/57546136964.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://czdashan.cn/uploadfile/file/2021051916160273499.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://arizonalightingsales.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/cae41338f10c73e1c906a18b79ec283d/jeviwewamubosot.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://sushikyototogo.com/uploads/files/21416314249.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://flylights.pl/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/ejdgnn837jda5a7kl25t5pt32l/mupime.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://christembassybarking.org/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/65f6c8884f7b2acb13a4c8680fbfaf57/1638090162.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://sipare.com.ar/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/aomovc6u7o81ftqrp5opipuk32/65011766058.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://abril.pe/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/7dac6fujv1pct7jsgt99vpeml3/wedit.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.areatransfers.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160763b3b52719---liraniburidupuninokireb.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://broadstripe.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/c27a7df22091107472bcf3b1d349947c/66031833127.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.nbrownies.com.br/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a7036da9fa6---35836071677.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://evabody.ro/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16083f47f03a27---58717049328.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://efnnma.org/files/file/74910946908.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://urbanplace.me/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/b2fbb2e84767e46e2eab52ed6c8c7821/ruzojewo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://kaizenlife.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/wexotevemasu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Uplcv/~3/BvfzZFkJO3s/uplcv?utm_term=difficult+to+usePDF 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_off0000e3c4.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xE3C4 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_01_sfnt_off0000fbd6.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xFBD6 16620 bytes
SHA-256: 9d9df7f8275d683a7c4d9f741eedcb52c6b5a9da96049d02bcd61c4650521b8d
font_02_sfnt_off0001272f.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x1272F 10064 bytes
SHA-256: bfda06cc11615d25926ac33620db25c13a6e965f979e6037f4be463a72b0d5ba