Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 914c4f0672257c93…

MALICIOUS

PDF

82.3 KB Created: 2021-07-27 10:48:30 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-09-14
MD5: a560a0306cd24005f5792a5400706d8f SHA-1: 746a719984e49a2ca728438817acebd3d5686c83 SHA-256: 914c4f0672257c93e4979734162e287157a633ec01afc38a7ddf04ba060f9aac
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

The PDF was flagged by ML classifiers and ClamAV as malicious, specifically as a phishing trojan. It contains a link farm pointing to numerous URLs, many hosted on compromised WordPress sites or disposable domains, designed to redirect users to further malicious content. While no scripts were explicitly extracted, the nature of the link farm suggests an intent to deliver a second-stage payload or conduct phishing operations.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9977

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 http://nensi.si/upload/file/20527710322.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://angelcabrera.com/FCKfiles/file/sofakozuvavawemarum.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://inbeeldt.nl/userfiles/file/rowemawutozazaxuvit.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://laptopcuhaiphong.vn/upload/files/lijifavigapenugit.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://compie.ru/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1606cc0638d352---81731545241.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://clearlakesd.org/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16071da08e1d8e---64256901007.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://baybayankaauamo.com/clients/c/c9/c9e0f772d4a556598cfa564a27137582/File/50325409312.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://tcufroghouses.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160c55cda0b373---kodakumawe.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://jlm-kg.com/uploads/file/tulafupipitez.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://arcenevents.nl/site/upload/files/68710034828.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.capitalroofingct.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16098a159bf358---dijivomedesun.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.carolglassman.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607960610ed83---jadax.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.rockandroll.blog.br/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/bhonb9vqsrfhca0am8q8ivjuq0/97831491893.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://muratay.nl/userfiles/file/41515382591.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://zapret-rf.org/web/img/podborky/files/fotimox.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.peeryhotel.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/fe809ad68e721f11751f41a0ba1d7392/turopadirinojelovopo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ajur.rest/uploads/userfiles/file/54681661884.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://hps-gruppe.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/ng4hcheum859hfrfk5r4qrki5d/xukim.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.medical-psychology.gr/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160c4fddb93896---bejoxutav.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://nek.ua/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16084caba1f788---bereruvobubix.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://pfgmm.com.au/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607630c03f7dc---zizevuzazowutopavixukemam.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://alatheir.com/atheirwsfiles/file/wegudalowid.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cradlegold.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/nmrngdg9a1a32gl6pqf4p79cdh/fukedebajoxunebapikagov.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/1eyvgo/aqOO/~3/BkSY9tpko7c/uplcv?utm_term=glencoe+mathematics+for+business+and+personal+finance+student+edition+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_off0000dce4.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xDCE4 11164 bytes
SHA-256: d04858a55a2852a7adc991c3f69d92d136da59e1359be4900d17285e8709f340
font_01_sfnt_off0000f683.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF683 16928 bytes
SHA-256: fe82e2122802a8c0f02fffea9ce500bb44fefd1df9f8d526a62284896f2a4a97
font_02_sfnt_off000122cf.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x122CF 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1