Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 b14dde078621ad61…

MALICIOUS

PDF

84.3 KB Created: 2021-07-06 01:46:05 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-09-14
MD5: 9f2268c4100c58fc57ea1fede00108d0 SHA-1: 2600c3ae04bcb2fe9c7896009d2e5eb3782af93b SHA-256: b14dde078621ad61522088edac7b035223fc88a0449fce0b505b0e0c64891970
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

The PDF contains numerous external URIs pointing to compromised WordPress sites and disposable domains, indicating a link farm designed to redirect users to potentially malicious content. The ML classifier and ClamAV detection strongly suggest malicious intent, likely phishing or malware distribution. No scripts were extracted, but the structure and URL patterns are typical of a PDF-based phishing lure.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9972

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://coretry.ru/uplcv?utm_term=the+biggest+singer+in+the+world PDF link annotation
    • http://bassbasement.org/userfiles/file/bekutalirujupoduzam.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://drlanda.hu/user/file/nomudufi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.stamfordtaxis.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/4h7ecu678d6eq1k5se573qud6i/57543103733.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://pabausa.org/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a1a521a0f89---gusoponawe.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://jualumnitoronto.com/editor/uploadfiles/15877130795.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://gmonlinestore.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a4bdb1e1444---pawazobipepitirelonepuxe.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://fietenhaardenenkachels.nl/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a5ef6335a49---46419625827.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://cementfeet.com/userfiles/file/nifibajo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://aqbnb.com/uploadfile/file/bewir.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://carnavaldemarbella.com/Senegal_5/Content/files/userfiles/file/13052568203.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.simcoerecovery.net/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/snm7biss6sjbar7d34tabb39n8/wobamolakebelujopopevega.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://wisserarm.nl/app/webroot/files/userfiles/files/dososewufitu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://campbellelectronics.com/uploads/puziwobeve.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://aynadakikemalizm.com/resimler/files/wivafukudegutorojeliz.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://tpdw.pl/userfiles/file/19038883277.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://retco.ge/ckfinder/userfiles/files/tasusafovapodufuvetagubub.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://asbazainville.org/userfiles/file/punubepobatixanaxuterir.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.deadclan.nl/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160ac9b2b08dd8---dapopewudifisopizig.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://vincityhomes.vn/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/jrdr7ihd1jat098220rf5h60fb/sejapefovinuxemukevejarab.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://stroisvias.ru/userfiles/file/44316940915.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.pirac.org/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/b230510f8aef44991a535d949e7d9350/tanijibamip.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_off0000e725.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xE725 17308 bytes
SHA-256: 9ccda87c55eeeb4d678f9029f02cdd61f4fe91b5ef4cf9f23582e8041319a912
font_01_sfnt_off00011462.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x11462 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_02_sfnt_off00012c79.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x12C79 10556 bytes
SHA-256: a366d7fb4a8739111e76e8e8c6072a8c1bc0627ea17f70adb5006c2df18198d7