Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 d14dc17a6d29a1ba…

MALICIOUS

PDF

125.3 KB Created: 2021-07-01 13:52:50 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-08-20
MD5: ec151d17042f8931d26f6f1838db0b5c SHA-1: 4249885bef4994eb078ebb9a6dd44377bd4d8c40 SHA-256: d14dc17a6d29a1ba585f8570ccdff74e189416eb4976a4c7dcf3f71e85367ae5
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

This PDF file was flagged by a machine learning classifier and ClamAV as malicious, specifically as a phishing trojan. It contains numerous links to external websites, many hosted on compromised WordPress installations, suggesting an attempt to redirect users to malicious content or phishing pages. The presence of PDF_SEO_DISPOSABLE_LINK_FARM and PDF_COMPROMISED_CMS_UPLOAD_LINK_FARM heuristics further supports this, indicating a link farm strategy on potentially compromised infrastructure.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9957

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://crysiq.ru/uplcv?utm_term=colleague+mother+passed+away+message PDF link annotation
    • https://mygamedaysports.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/e49b4c01891f216ff4409cc0f4df62bc/49528187816.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://remontnoedelo.ru/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160ab691271329---53313627415.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://precisionautoandac.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/fdfb285d5204173fe5744f4a2b375799/11530302593.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://alexandrapanayotou.com/web/images/static/file/kisesolimawemosaloniw.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.onestopnaturalstore.ca/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/99ipa7uk1peauesisequ8ddavr/74259156320.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.unidacardoso.com.br/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16083c31027174---bunoxubi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://40parables.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/9d6a7a12160b96beab2d1d2654470d45/fumafip.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.puhito.hu/uploads/kakitefajitisawezawaz.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.chartsunlimited.com.ph/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609ab8804b25d---85148674957.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://dsodrecital.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608075450e66d---bumef.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.molinoag.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a9239e4f8c6---ratijejodobelexaladitak.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://aksaaydinlatma.com/img/editor/image/file/76323246528.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://arci-mp.fr/admin/File/nuzezafisuputazisuj.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://addsfly.com/userfiles/file/10882122722.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.oasipizza.it/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609fdf9761dbe---21686343445.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://vivaibonomo.it/userfiles/files/kutalive.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://albatrossmrn.com/konadnew/userfiles/file/siramokusovivana.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://expungemyrecordnj.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609cffc958d7f---26747455890.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.aluvascientific.com/UserFiles/file/tujazatavatofexosafogob.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.trimbleexpress.sk/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160acfbabbb182---49139385955.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.absolutecateringla.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a5e3eba73a0---42065831417.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://sip7.online/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/dbc74522cfae520073e18b4c225406f9/4578475835.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://mofrantech.com/userfiles/file/8201916901.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://cc-loges.com/uploads/file/tiwikolifogotibirokufuk.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_off00018bb8.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x18BB8 16276 bytes
SHA-256: 07908d434606c63d066762b11741c46c2aab90323a3d91d02fb3cd7b33026d42
font_01_sfnt_off0001b5c2.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x1B5C2 10976 bytes
SHA-256: 1e6c34ba8c269ed5171c283a3600d0173084585b81dbee6512e9d4d15b710c42
font_02_sfnt_off0001cf2f.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x1CF2F 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1