Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 d14ec698b2a6160a…

MALICIOUS

PDF

90.3 KB Created: 2021-07-07 01:00:09 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3)
MD5: 5c78beaed4cccbd9a753a41d74d8131f SHA-1: 14765f5187ffff4f46dec760c0249d78a073fc47 SHA-256: d14ec698b2a6160a4997ea72241672b113d83cf0f4468043fd924f764f4778bd
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF file was detected as malicious by ClamAV and an ML classifier, indicating a high likelihood of malicious intent. It functions as a link farm, with numerous embedded URLs pointing to compromised WordPress sites. These links likely serve as lures for phishing attacks or to distribute further malware. The document body is unreadable binary data, suggesting it is not intended for direct user interaction but rather to exploit PDF vulnerabilities or host malicious links.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9937

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://krisoc.ru/uplcv?utm_term=djibouti+is+capital+city+of+which+country
    • https://fitnessrev.net/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/k3ulj8bj2jn2ciep4up1nfqcfc/35890197606.pdf
    • http://aligokdemir.com/resimler/files/buxoxaxod.pdf
    • http://brightwayconsultancyservices.com/userfiles/file/38025013474.pdf
    • https://pensionatiitalianiinportogallo.it/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/9f5d387891c462ae4f66297d4eaf25b6/93529066087.pdf
    • http://bilagroup.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160703443e4858---53990086658.pdf
    • http://chagatea.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/03bb4803c854eee4ac81fe5619d3ff45/mizubovirurozajo.pdf
    • http://www.alex-vasilkov.ru/images/wisdom/file/57340145346.pdf
    • http://amwordpress.org/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609f8404066ee---bumuvijabuniwu.pdf
    • https://doitsolutions.co/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/cad3e507c4144ea067753d04ffcabdb5/webopemubabobuko.pdf
    • http://burragebrothers.org/demo/jolie/beta/userfiles/files/mesoxutedex.pdf
    • http://interface-referencement.com/userfiles/file/favibuw.pdf
    • http://thesetnews.com/images/fckeditor/file/63425459510.pdf
    • http://remontnoedelo.ru/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16079ce97a810d---83997871235.pdf
    • http://orgue-chantepie.info/FCKeditor/upload/file/sejetisaruf.pdf
    • http://progetec.org/userfiles/files/12854044991.pdf
    • https://wentworthre.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/c8b6dffe37ccabfb7ba8eff0cde385c1/dijavibuvesulezalagonoz.pdf
    • http://anhuizhkj.com/upload_fck/file/2021-5-5/20210505214727899085.pdf
    • https://at1-turbo-j3t.com/contents//files/32556363568.pdf
    • http://www.danvillern.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/5c1reua51pqa0sfcagmrk0e8f2/5917350605.pdf
    • http://luvnchrlysenglishtoys.com/clients/861429/File/musaduziviwu.pdf
    • http://frederickfollows.co.uk/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160b2d22c46295---44873137505.pdf
    • https://gulyaskantin.hu/uploads/frontend/files/88085158688.pdf
    • https://www.ppmcare.co.uk/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/co1dmrg7iv49e9nsjv0uu63ah4/57280165201.pdf
    • http://xn--80ackbssfuieecff0e8c.xn--p1ai/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/8nt9la2n9866bcmbsl9ps225g1/58280699623.pdf
    • http://reelproductionshd.com/userfiles/file/28306734289.pdf
    • http://www.w3.org/1999/02/22-rdf-syntax-ns#
    • http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/
    • http://ns.adobe.com/pdf/1.3/
    • http://ns.adobe.com/xap/1.0/
    • http://ns.adobe.com/xap/1.0/mm/
    • http://ns.adobe.com/xap/1.0/rights/
    • http://dejavu.sourceforge.net
    • http://dejavu.sourceforge.net/wiki/index.php/License

Extracted artifacts 3

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
font_00_sfnt_off0000fde3.bin
9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xFDE3 16792 bytes
font_01_sfnt_off000115fa.bin
db98ff321a37daf7dec53b4edac7699db4ece9ae497558c46a8fa3d73be1e826
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x115FA 11016 bytes
font_02_sfnt_off00012f58.bin
1789d801f83e91d73d88872887fe5b4083b79362be3372fa917f350d68b4c3b0
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x12F58 17240 bytes