Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 b14c6bdbb04bc739…

MALICIOUS

PDF

86.0 KB Created: 2021-08-26 00:28:23 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-07
MD5: e073eb580af11a0bedf389f6af51ac96 SHA-1: 90f00149e7dd2ed9a8739ebbe08b00d7a4357ec0 SHA-256: b14c6bdbb04bc7394e556705b6b8f767e1f8518eeba1a648e1f4e2af622e83bf
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF file contains a link farm with numerous URLs pointing to various domains, many of which appear to be compromised or disposable hosting. The ML classifier and ClamAV detection strongly indicate malicious intent, likely for phishing or malware distribution. The presence of multiple external URIs and link farm heuristics suggests an attempt to redirect users to malicious content.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9981

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://aytekinpolatel.com/image/files/29661361745.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://gavinlawoffice.com/customer/3/d/9/3d947ad6ce2568d98b832ccf5548371bFile/dowosameg.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://flemisterbauldingfamily.com/clients/8/82/82a21d9598fc66f9117a8fb7222c8fd0/File/fusupogixukikaxiruva.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://computergramm.com/userfiles/file/disanebalubasebagom.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.energetisch-therapeut-estie.nl/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1610dad5c9ae61---walisiravowejekag.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://sssmri.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/58696933949.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://terhautz.com/upload_files/files/dadevabejizofezozuwilawav.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://chinhsuasolieu.com/media/files/fobexavew.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://bagpack.com.np/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a310704e8dd---22463679952.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://smeeing.com/userfiles/files/detagipugosasi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://3eyamaichi.com/upload/ckfinder_temp/files/20210709115512.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://vanlysecurity.vn/vanly/album/files/49217871486.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://irantruck.ir/data/file/91190432328.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://claudiodauelsberg.com.br/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1611c43daebd6b---vekamaru.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ahkjt.com/upfile/file/48537485235.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://opalbiosciences.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607bbd1124c6a---vipejevewibav.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://chocoinmobiliario.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/19b833fbda9cb9c0d23025938c4045a0/rekexoxugajigar.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://siphouse96.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/9ac3b1ccdfd3a39c4bc6769d7c73e9d0/64804390358.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://aromaonly1.com/yamituki-n/uploads/files/31386582033.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://creativesilhouettes.ca/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160717c5914ca0---jizefifope.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://siphouse96.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/8c9eb35772ccbe428982623f2022b05c/6967142727.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://vibangthuaphatlai.net/uploads/files/52071052428.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cmsschoolkg.org/userfiles/file/zoxadopipunorokudotix.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/skout/mBVl/~3/cv9VXjIrmdE/uplcv?utm_term=call+of+duty+mobile+apk+old+versionPDF 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_off0000e653.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xE653 17972 bytes
SHA-256: c55a79bf332bea072f6e4c9253c8323dc3f6fe1371e92ac53f3770c88ed2b80a
font_01_sfnt_off00011562.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x11562 11200 bytes
SHA-256: 603a2859ab114795f417ac8744364a668c4c0c3f709001fc7b350f4bce6a3498
font_02_sfnt_off00012f76.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x12F76 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1