Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 b14eb60ab30b0eb1…

MALICIOUS

PDF

77.9 KB Created: 2021-07-21 01:28:41 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-24
MD5: 1779bf3a697588a2605741636ced5132 SHA-1: e54ae25521f4fec00e2e20bba6943bd9f7c4ce4a SHA-256: b14eb60ab30b0eb18c22263949ecea195c27c56b7765fffd4e06e4e38b2c3ac1
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF file was identified as malicious by ClamAV and an ML classifier, exhibiting characteristics of a link farm. Several heuristics indicate that the PDF contains numerous links pointing to potentially compromised WordPress sites and disposable hosting, suggesting an attempt to lure users to malicious content. The presence of external URIs and a link farm structure strongly implies a phishing or redirection attack.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9953

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://www.mozartcantat.nl/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160896fc8b638c---gexolojar.pdf In PDF document text
    • https://666666.vn/upload/fck/file/90165713860.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://munnarinfo.in/userfiles/file/jomow.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://maxim-catering.de/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/577j7hfdgnkrc5ajuuetk76k05/35520192350.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://carzip.biz/files/uploads/files/tojepetuparadot.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.eflox.net/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608256355f426---45108319936.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://hyperasp.net/userfiles/file/vutigosilo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://kinel-hunter.ru/upfiles/file/93621628965.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://profisystem.ro/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160ba3314b76bc---64528656724.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.azembay.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/bdkcih4h2kmofv3129idvgn798/34424432354.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://dildendilecevirievi.com/upload/ckfinder/files/pikasu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://realxenon.ru/uploads/files/wuzafuvis.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://qhzs88.com/admin/fckeditor_upfiles/file/2021061606174280554.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://aahsclassof1978.com/clients/b/b6/b6117739535924054831d33ecd54b00a/File/80428414912.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://pttaccounting.com/userfiles/files/wiwetiledofiponabot.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.wroclawmodelshow.pl/ckfinder/userfiles/files/zavoradafemev.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.cibaospalaser.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/ajg6a8ht6nhmf302p9r8hcnb2k/pokonururoxoxa.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.afamaresme.org/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16090931796211---guruvoga.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://bayardplaza.co.uk/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/ttum82dqagq3542mic3af0spfh/41742228814.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://kelvista.lt/images/files/sesuduxeguzibagabawazix.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://windcampus.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160b6c4a8c0e1b---vodiwizabibusubovusajakog.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://k-kompany.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/8c621e19896b85e3b790eb1123d73c4c/66086435299.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://bazab.ru/ckfinder/userfiles/files/lepafexozewumezuwizava.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Uplcv/~3/fzgW7-mxBc0/uplcv?utm_term=ed+word+family+worksheets+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_off0000cf3b.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xCF3B 15980 bytes
SHA-256: 6a4a05503ecf3dc744fde62b2596289069947ea69213ba59ef474fb5e03f7d0a
font_01_sfnt_off0000f8b4.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF8B4 10932 bytes
SHA-256: 38433f54ea08d262fa8e445c1e42a7084dbf6d3fb6cfe99a53f470ef84264cb2
font_02_sfnt_off00011211.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x11211 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1