Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 c14d7485a7f8c434…

MALICIOUS

PDF

89.1 KB Created: 2021-07-26 10:33:06 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-11
MD5: db2bcc9b081bacff622b9a47d0e518c5 SHA-1: 66647320e526bfd8b86db74dc536d418a8f9be88 SHA-256: c14d7485a7f8c43421bafc8c3d896bf07b5658b013d4d978e8eb6f2648bb30d8
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

This PDF file was detected as malicious by ClamAV and an ML classifier, indicating a high likelihood of malicious intent. The heuristics reveal it functions as a link farm, directing users to multiple compromised WordPress sites. These sites host further PDF files, suggesting a multi-stage download or redirection process. The primary goal appears to be leading users to potentially malicious content or phishing pages.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9958

Heuristics 6

  • ClamAV: Pdf.Phishing.Trojan-d2528dad23a95d95-d2528dad23a95d95-10044376-0 critical CLAMAV_DETECTION
    ClamAV detected this file as malware: Pdf.Phishing.Trojan-d2528dad23a95d95-d2528dad23a95d95-10044376-0
  • 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://www.fliesen-brill.de/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160aec5743af8f---83300443624.pdf In PDF document text
    • https://www.tifdip.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608c3ce2ba44a---15428905610.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://mysistermyfriendministries.org/clients/85776/File/54005618710.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://adance0112.com/upfile/editor/file/59627063398.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://photographerin.agency/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/4pkpu4no64d9jd6ku9uq890q90/deraligibuzazetuvelum.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://londonvipchauffeur.co.uk/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/b8f7712721a4b18dfe77d3c414382490/31281170066.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.dj-csnl.nl/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608de0607e53a---waxajitewufuv.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.bestlifepolicy.co.uk/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608308e07f561---ganiwedevoneroruxanutitan.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ingpoggi.eu/userfiles/files/kafodopipe.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://mmdplus.com/userfiles/files/20210618_172742.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://aarogyamedico.com/userfiles/file/20219817767.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://edukiya.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/cf8d5663468f35e4ac249279bc5a3456/ligololatudum.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://lea-inc.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/791fbbd417decf94f68cb745be04d6e9/wopoxonekafisokonasol.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://tuzvedo.hu/elemek/file/tamunowigawag.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://call.ae/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a4456e427e9---raxumu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://insights3.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/45114d2f8aec7e962e0fa4dc085c18aa/47458342087.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.sunarsurdurulebilir.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/avjk6nq4in3hf07pnplsj523b6/778815742.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://anvlaw.com/userfiles/file/70937039473.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://simonhoirup.dk/userfiles/file/9946200070.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.mywil.ch/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16079bff51532e---lirubu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ludifrance.fr/userfiles/file/34245193331.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/1eyvgo/aqOO/~3/LPIa9PGmDLg/uplcv?utm_term=exercicios+opera%C3%A7%C3%B5es+com+intervalos+reaisPDF 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 4

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
font_00_sfnt_off0000d9b3.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xD9B3 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_01_sfnt_off0000f1c4.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF1C4 16312 bytes
SHA-256: 7d15b2d6d265aaca51dda18faee70a1b8fa9d95ed54cb111fb0895789092f9ae
font_02_sfnt_off000107cb.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x107CB 20040 bytes
SHA-256: 17e315bdfb40c575aa89f553463698c4efc0f60654e228c569e5522a68ab8fb5
font_03_sfnt_off00013ad3.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x13AD3 11108 bytes
SHA-256: e8dc7884e866d677c8fb0876dec314e6d3e0521e382f1adea79c9c01cc920cb0