Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 714f0f71a9683249…

MALICIOUS

PDF

87.8 KB Created: 2021-08-03 03:10:58 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3)
MD5: c85ad72ea399ebbb42f9c72e73dfb823 SHA-1: 1de00687219c48901b59c8e6292e83e8418da2e8 SHA-256: 714f0f71a9683249d463eb25414ba9860759301c880473cf3da212e008f3bb51
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF file was identified as malicious by ML classifiers and ClamAV, indicating a phishing or trojan threat. It functions as a link farm, containing numerous URLs pointing to compromised websites, likely to lure users into downloading further malicious content or submitting sensitive information. The presence of multiple links on disposable hosting and compromised CMS uploads reinforces the malicious intent.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9991

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://brylka-kfz.de/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160c8ffccac7df---3179044266.pdf
    • http://musthighschool.mn/ckfinder/userfiles/files/79788436847.pdf
    • https://www.movingwithmagna.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/fb9238f68a2f9a633781861a73a35b38/75544811411.pdf
    • https://australiancaravancentre.com.au/application/third_party/ckfinder/userfiles/files/3775318783.pdf
    • http://discoveryenglish.org/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16072c743dc5d3---pesafinag.pdf
    • https://harpethvalleyhealth.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/d306ae5d1d941433c7c5adeeca9129c8/82650342878.pdf
    • http://merrygoldholidays.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/86136399447.pdf
    • http://brmhn.com/userfiles/file/20210621231446_zyhn66.pdf
    • http://associacaoguainumbi.org.br/wp/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160980c289e505---luxone.pdf
    • http://saludocupacionalpso.com/home/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160b0a7882215e---50693267532.pdf
    • http://verkoop-je-wagen.be/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1606c7730e7886---gijawavo.pdf
    • https://www.lokalesichtbarkeit.de/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/p3phi1bmbpiaa7btb88853d1i5/tonazutepenobag.pdf
    • https://bikeid.net/ckfinder/userfiles/files/xikekawu.pdf
    • https://careersourcechipola.com/files/public/munivonir.pdf
    • https://criteriacambio.com.br/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/v82u5a7a03tmqlcrpa5p1ogvu2/4343311757.pdf
    • http://profisystem.ro/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16073975f74755---85125025966.pdf
    • https://sipare.com.ar/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/m5ikr7k1vh7lnv2upc9eha18lp/siredazefopap.pdf
    • https://www.adler-leitishofen.de/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607c26c1e9d44---wobobopalilomanake.pdf
    • http://www.eflox.net/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160821e3895600---pepudumuvigataja.pdf
    • https://aadhaarretail.com/administrator/imagetemp/file/soneda.pdf
    • https://luxurytravel-show.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/d1336820e15808854eabc94a89a9ead2/55176582131.pdf
    • http://tjjjsh.com/uploads/files/safalirufekarumef.pdf
    • https://renfrewareahealthvillage.ca/ckfinder/userfiles/files/37896111529.pdf
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/skout/mBVl/~3/fzgW7-mxBc0/uplcv?utm_term=free+schnauzer+puppies+near+me
    • 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_off0000f532.bin
0adbfd9ff4944a84216a5ce7632350034606ebcb0e94d4eebb6991d15c1e1896
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF532 10512 bytes
font_01_sfnt_off00010ce5.bin
255a1d5b4b6c43feb920e2957388b7c8ae52cc68ac74d333acd127238ecf3f29
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x10CE5 16872 bytes
font_02_sfnt_off00013925.bin
9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x13925 16792 bytes