Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 8e14f29a9b0efb51…

MALICIOUS

PDF

87.9 KB Created: 2021-07-07 23:57:16 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-09-13
MD5: d80edef25c4ba11d733f509aa4a97666 SHA-1: 37f1158a2cb790b3f4d8342358887cea8ff3d401 SHA-256: 8e14f29a9b0efb51e9deda3b1e554ce8ffefdeb8d0b09626ade518980567bfa5
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

This PDF file was flagged by multiple heuristics and a machine learning classifier as malicious, with ClamAV identifying it as Pdf.Phishing.Trojan. The file contains numerous embedded URLs, many pointing to compromised WordPress sites or disposable hosting, suggesting a link farm designed to redirect users to malicious content. The primary attack pattern involves luring users to external sites, likely for phishing or malware delivery.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9835

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://smidgel.ru/uplcv?utm_term=wii+dvd+players PDF link annotation
    • https://vidolamerica.org/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/e9bc4a6cf4304ea7d26abd0bc63570c4/26888611783.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.opencalgary.org/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a763082ef9d---derebebamuxobakudufipew.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://travolution.travel/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/9901ad9ac86b532cc32d53516a74bd08/6769814915.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://flexa.cz/docs/file/dabowivakazaxipufomori.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.maderas-navarro.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/goted.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://timebank.ru/sites/default/files/photos/pagefile/42574348981.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.conkite.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/2ddafe024383d2e7ecd2ed449145e551/zutiforajab.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://visusmarble.com/images_upload/files/tozujasaweduxovijomuzaras.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://sl-light.ru/design/img/upload/file/48785892711.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://perleyparish.org/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/c6d53909e561085989612b80841015c9/58853668510.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.vedaaz.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/1fadea4594d70709239ca56225a0c9e4/futimisug.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://africanresearchcenter.com/userfiles/file/61541368210.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://gaseg.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/uav5f63bh4e9ap6vuqfvf34llc/fojubopivisuworabomuxeres.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://berkeleyhigh64.com/clients/9/99/99a482d4bd0dc5522cc24ea7f8204a07/File/59351129944.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://asianaccounting.com/admin/fckeditor/userfiles/file/vonito.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://lenaoyunlar.com/calisma2/files/uploads/babegutalit.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://nanoscopy.ru/uploads/files/41693838073.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.gainerwindows.ca/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/bn9jb283maftd80oa615uabcj4/womivij.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.sahabatkeluargahomecare.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609241f916f44---rolusuwamezevewijusuvadol.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.truesdalepainting.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160775f5793859---44390805919.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://suttonoakfarms.com/clients/880813/File/76730918573.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://lorichphoto.com/pictures/file/25344861994.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cleaner.pl/userfiles/file/davuxidilajorujepimerupa.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://119hero.kr/userData/board/file/nokibe.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://triumphtoday.org/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a71876980c8---81921676459.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://finestblogger.de/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/7o992nr69u8l39eat5ll10jicm/narejige.pdfIn PDF document text
    • 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_off0000f574.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF574 10236 bytes
SHA-256: f70d04e53f8a26092f4ca5e3b3a8559526352f8601f3dd981403053d1a18533d
font_01_sfnt_off00010c85.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x10C85 17476 bytes
SHA-256: 0f078ddca2203f056ccf941f9ed3730adb6d65a29e35d437e8552eb839da7356
font_02_sfnt_off00013a2a.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x13A2A 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1