Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 83ed14e60074dfcd…

MALICIOUS

PDF

92.4 KB Created: 2021-07-04 06:45:58 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-11
MD5: 2552290d03ab1d4a97b181f0c7d5dbe8 SHA-1: 18aef16172badc54e064fccddf1312207fcad1ad SHA-256: 83ed14e60074dfcdac68b7f92e53bc5a93073600acf68e996c999530722fb806
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

This PDF file was flagged by a machine learning classifier and ClamAV as malicious, specifically as a phishing trojan. It contains numerous links pointing to compromised WordPress upload directories and disposable hosting, forming a link farm designed to redirect users to potentially malicious content. The primary attack pattern involves luring users through these links, likely for credential harvesting or further malware delivery.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9952

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://pluckywize.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607a52b2844b4---33148068256.pdf In PDF document text
    • https://alfa-clining.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/fcf6bc1899d4f8548738079c683d252f/vogiripejixigojojojawib.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://purifoy2020.com/clients/1/11/118d8b7ee1ea4bab8fb19da95c56260f/File/baderokip.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://hps-gruppe.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/l7vvvdpnk0seevv68tp2og4nmd/86640986518.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://perfectthesale.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16085fb7d73d7a---33730720564.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://mywymc.com/userfiles/file/37608244779.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.adanakursmerkezi.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160c959fe27321---68562538357.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://baigeleather.com/userfiles/file/miradepazonituke.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://drstevealbrecht.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/be17826204971431cc0ae1e40528abf8/tabuzabagizunaresir.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://valleyrestoration.net/home/apf/public_html/ckfinder/userfiles/files/migigokem.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ledseoul.com/userData/board/file/7484871622.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://shinyjewellers.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/o5c6mnk2oc30erjapg0sjf41lq/27787866684.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.amiunaorchestra.ro/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160b1ec4112747---rujowikivisuvemunexogi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.alphaveneers.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/488c610f35396d15e05388317bbe0c8a/91326909246.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://comodee.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16088c62f47d51---gabudagopemewina.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://intestinalfortitude.org/clients/0/0c/0cf504f131cb0201443a7bd449519f4a/File/10399971101.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.hamburgeriaagricola.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/s626e9kb9dhb42lmjceepno2u5/92755504424.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://navigator-nsk.ru/userfiles/file/gaxoli.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://fietenhaardenenkachels.nl/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607c3988f2330---pezofekowuvaduri.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://azseal.net/uploads/userfiles/file/51056713379.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://law.com.sg/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/667fbc7173610f618799c32c6003bfb0/jukovura.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.bewegeninarnhem.nl/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160b2427a2f65b---tibujekafugulinigagave.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://tolgyesvolgy.hu/userfiles/file/kajulimejikoroju.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/skout/mBVl/~3/YTWXjIUwRh0/uplcv?utm_term=new+york+central+steam+enginesPDF 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_off0001037d.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x1037D 17496 bytes
SHA-256: d14f849524f7ee127256e454a658cef222589364e3db1e21e26556406588e133
font_01_sfnt_off0001317a.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x1317A 10844 bytes
SHA-256: f095d0b87a170da7b59fe461da201a8ebcc41f8691cea91f651892d9e377eb2f
font_02_sfnt_off00014a9c.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x14A9C 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1