Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 7c14cc95c0ae9e9d…

MALICIOUS

PDF

80.2 KB Created: 2021-09-01 02:48:52 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3)
MD5: 40e93b6fb1f30e099469b68db7b23dc4 SHA-1: 2fc3355763339523b5fe0513aa4d4120a3dcddc2 SHA-256: 7c14cc95c0ae9e9d34fdcc24b410fc9dbadb266af370c35a1fcc0c597d80ffd9
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF contains numerous links pointing to compromised WordPress sites and other disposable hosting domains, indicating it functions as a link farm. The ML classifier and ClamAV detection strongly suggest malicious intent, likely for phishing or distributing further malware. The presence of multiple links to compromised CMS upload storage reinforces the malicious nature of the document.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9977

Heuristics 6

  • ClamAV: Pdf.Phishing.Trojan-d2528dad23a95d95-d2528dad23a95d95-10044376-0 critical CLAMAV_DETECTION
    ClamAV detected this file as malware: Pdf.Phishing.Trojan-d2528dad23a95d95-d2528dad23a95d95-10044376-0
  • 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://nzozkrowodrza.pl/uploads/editor/file/fepobowo.pdf
    • http://www.videobezopasnost.ru/ckfinder/userfiles/files/kadubufikoresuxuwove.pdf
    • http://coss-wynn-reunion.com/clients/d/db/dbe3622004495b304d8703879a486b7d/File/35601660939.pdf
    • http://thehawthornnyc.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160943fba7248e---68547901507.pdf
    • http://lhs75aa.org/clients/0/08/08eb77d093c5251d787cf05842b4a73c/File/nudutafotu.pdf
    • http://hellnocancershow.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a926bfe0f6a---gelisuwexex.pdf
    • https://www.lipfish.no/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160ae7d55a4b76---47930929076.pdf
    • http://multiseal.com.ph/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160835cf431c51---wavajupa.pdf
    • http://taxilitomerice.cz/ckfinder/userfiles/files/70346737737.pdf
    • https://www.cdscabling.co.uk/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16095b10f45cc7---6469644725.pdf
    • https://bgg.pirkitpadangas.lt/ckfinder/userfiles/files/lijiwabijusixasazobi.pdf
    • https://www.carlosfunes.es/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607ae06b501c7---vovekizoxedefasolufetanal.pdf
    • http://ventima.ru/userfiles/file/19881537848.pdf
    • http://villaroyalenews.com/userimages/50769811561.pdf
    • http://gocreate.termall.pl/upload/fck/file/varonoxujep.pdf
    • http://mikailang.net/userfiles/file/20210503191347_32570593.pdf
    • https://playgametoday.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/83ac82297c2fce40baf785d15b4e92bd/vubugina.pdf
    • http://sushinamu.com/uploads/files/34928961177.pdf
    • https://www.geya99.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/xaxike.pdf
    • http://www.deco-interieure.com/userfiles/file/80484468771.pdf
    • http://pogologistics.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/jafifugakiwovudexiv.pdf
    • http://www.retorika-zidar.si/ckfinder/ckeditor_uploaded_files/files/julewiwimobiragumetukori.pdf
    • https://transpack-krumbach.de/_upload_bilder/_filemanager/file/ruseboxe.pdf
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/skout/mBVl/~3/FevRqgeaUVY/uplcv?utm_term=excess+salary+deferral
    • 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_off0000d891.bin
7e976365095ccee880037c99fc0a3494d394a7efad72a8fe0aec5ae79596a87b
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xD891 16904 bytes
font_01_sfnt_off000103f0.bin
aa13d4f4bcffe0164b6679e44d0dd9938a00167effdf41d998d957d0c986f035
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x103F0 10252 bytes
font_02_sfnt_off00011b29.bin
9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x11B29 16792 bytes