Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 714be0b1d5025d93…

MALICIOUS

PDF

82.4 KB Created: 2021-09-07 01:32:31 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-11
MD5: f4d6b8dc9299a63d3b8e45706c5ba7f4 SHA-1: 65ea6b0bfd7524e0a843dfd1b4f22aefb1a295c3 SHA-256: 714be0b1d5025d93d7725abeb3d08e39c64117ca68f9a5910edbe3c88715d553
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

This PDF file was detected as a phishing trojan by ClamAV and flagged by an ML classifier. It contains numerous links, many pointing to compromised CMS upload directories, suggesting it's designed to lead users to malicious content or phishing pages. The document body is heavily obfuscated and appears to be generated by wkhtmltopdf, indicating it's not intended for direct user reading but rather as a container for malicious links.

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 https://hitpoint.tw/userfiles/file/57544746386.pdf In PDF document text
    • https://www.davidcosz.de/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/ub5bknn5hvfr2l9o7rdqut56j1/rezegugomaxifanudabotis.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.areatransfers.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609d13fe5519f---wameradezetikosem.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://newtarrytowndeli.com/uploads/files/mejixiwalovuwazupubopibip.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ateneoarbonaida.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160e1d43c3c781---85225942560.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.allterra.group/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/8d2d2377e4ff1bffcd13acee5a639714/mewuxotu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://francois-daulte.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/39475217346.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://advicezone.org.uk/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/v22c4hjple52a4hi5a7eker1d1/wawofazitukum.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://israelonthehouse.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160fede27dda93---1728272869.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.dolphinrfid.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607eac214886b---45986577121.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://suncitygroup.ir/basefile/suncitygroupir/files/3103713721.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.alquilerbares.com.ar/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1606cedd3d4edc---13416484710.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.marthatrotts.ca/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160885cf9deea9---domilofodojuzisur.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://amirep.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/751b60ff5c0e371ae9b998bb53b39616/wutovilawasukozuzas.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://dacoma.ro/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160b7410cd1e14---15468797751.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.pzkexie.com/up_files/file/jifubisonibowitatebu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://network-italia.com/file/27318036425.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://wacee.net/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160c7b74c539ff---zubano.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://kantankacreative.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/acfa80d16af3aa9ec7b810f0a41b4f37/nawuxawutimeputaxibasilo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://solee56.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/3337243197.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.alarisusallc.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/fa55bea12e480bfb4483002ee7e09f69/32340608807.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://kulturazebrak.cz/userfiles/menadisowagi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://tourister.kr/userfiles/file/vanaxeluxa.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://vincityhomes.vn/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/6be2vp2luuj9abt8uioebu0tol/86629551181.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/1eyvgo/aqOO/~3/S30rS-6n6vg/uplcv?utm_term=harry+potter+novel+in+telugu+pdfPDF 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_off0000dd76.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xDD76 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_01_sfnt_off0000f588.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF588 17532 bytes
SHA-256: 47a676f203b0756ad1b9d51e567834b00391506effae2ded14c3cf8b085cf925
font_02_sfnt_off000122f6.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x122F6 10776 bytes
SHA-256: cbb626e6d2102e1666014903b74543d1742a3f727bc33244c3069368338cced1