Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 a14e026ade336c50…

MALICIOUS

PDF

81.6 KB Created: 2021-08-28 20:52:29 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-24
MD5: a6b88c62c496ba39ceb2d5b746dbe298 SHA-1: 82982d63b38b74d216f2c8b2bf80c0c3172f728c SHA-256: a14e026ade336c50a405110f3f21de3e3c6e69306312d6fc9f6e4f47333fb567
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF file was flagged by multiple heuristics as malicious, including a critical ClamAV detection and an ML classifier indicating a high probability of maliciousness. The file contains numerous embedded URLs, many pointing to compromised CMS upload directories or disposable hosting, suggesting a link farm designed to redirect users to malicious content. The presence of these links and the overall structure strongly indicate a phishing or malware distribution attempt.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9986

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://oniceh.ru/uplcv?utm_term=the+data+warehouse+toolkit+pdf+download PDF link annotation
    • https://bishopsalamatkhokhar.org/userfiles/file/sokitowixurikimobi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://hogies.com/includes/template/uploads/file/lowupitusufalam.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://klingende-zeder.de/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1611f7064d1284---87572163726.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://averon.ca/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16078e840b485b---woragaberovi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://sieckultury.pl/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/785a0c4ef98e7cb924dce89324fd31ef/daterabajev.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://cascinamana.it/userfiles/file/pozebi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://oiweld.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/a2a1771784502f201678e0d164354142/janevepe.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://mai-avto.ru/upload_files/file/77559504522.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.catalogodecineargentino.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607248b73dba4---bogewumigamedupemusub.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.hungryalex.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/pcg5ibalsndl28cisht6psp503/tidinasugulurulaveme.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://hopkinshigh62.com/clients/7/77/7764523e397120ad9b09b1da26998858/File/3973828701.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://grandchainfamilyfoundation.com/clients/85333/File/81802657186.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://uyaviation.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16083593809ba4---notefunopukabekufiwuziku.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://studiolegalezullo.eu/userfiles/files/29469430782.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://hacunamatata.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/dab7e6703230cb41a6b9505be8aeb028/bomogeb.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://esipro.fr/userfiles/file/kajipafusolotujemanud.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://red-persimmons.com/upfiles/editor/files/69520920971.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://raptiherbal.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/nekelubekukoduzeju.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.ibadirect.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608cfdd669168---9878076718.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://chiangmai-clean.com/user_img/files/66077517966.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://iburgisidimarsala.eu/userfiles/files/tujatawom.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.everhouse.lt/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607e226b1547b---ladikatuxijojibemakak.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.ikedatosou.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609074f374f1e---xugekuxo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://donauwell.at/userfiles/file/83339734746.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://awlights.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/7adec569d992ad130e98c62eb70f4eef/retopotutamopunilot.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_off0000d842.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xD842 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_01_sfnt_off0000f054.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF054 17680 bytes
SHA-256: bd6398cb347690c42ac76aa23ce7f8e1cb5490199a31e36c320527851fd6a805
font_02_sfnt_off00011e74.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x11E74 10836 bytes
SHA-256: 0359b621fe5024a6c19ec05273cc4a0c9dfd40e9f838f6b03d8b0e5a52b595c4