Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 d514261304e9ee3a…

MALICIOUS

PDF

90.1 KB Created: 2021-08-16 05:04:39 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-27
MD5: d0714e4ca72ee684eb4187e2adbdaed5 SHA-1: 7a2b770709a025ad094a1c20463bc50ac3da1dc1 SHA-256: d514261304e9ee3a5d93e22cfe68e312207f009c78923363729704a2e0df1c13
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF file was detected as malicious by ClamAV and an ML classifier, indicating a high likelihood of malicious intent. Heuristics identified it as a link farm, with multiple URLs pointing to compromised CMS uploads and disposable hosting, suggesting a phishing or SEO poisoning campaign. The document body was unreadable, but the presence of numerous URLs and the 'link farm' heuristic strongly suggest the primary attack pattern.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9984

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 http://www.pirac.org/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/a083ef6b452f3ef654583e1374135d99/pabakolukuposovigobojupi.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://renovator.cz/files/file/64225862069.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://alicekhenrylawoffice.com/customer/3/d/9/3d947ad6ce2568d98b832ccf5548371bFile/73840638754.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://hijaustabilo.com/contents//files/65820747299.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.sunarmisir.com.tr/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/ulosip4v2lrst4cg8isip7l016/70135513533.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://vernadoc.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/16374cc84fc1f5bf5ab174034ebbad2b/kezamopaxumu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.festivalmarrakech.info/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160ddfa59b77e9---2075274581.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://masterpieces-mallorca.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/e854b695d988293716a6d88a7ce53b35/pupenizol.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://aimara-bg.com/userfiles/file/jonerufizeruzelefafamepib.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.pranabkumar.com/fckimages/file/bijemiduwewetelelazavonuj.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://europartner2.pl/uploads/78237573326.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://verkoop-je-wagen.be/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160c4143d90201---137765046.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://reunionfamily.com/clients/6/6c/6c58f7de0247188f02debbcda007d80b/File/borobobomogapow.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://anhuishangbiao.com/upload_fck/file/2021-5-22/20210522072022443720.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://fc-junajted.com/upload/datoteke/37609792118.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://asiarsolutions.com/userfiles/file/16218751898.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://tw-sincere.com/upfiles/editor/files/41415251990.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://discoveryenglish.org/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609ab991d178d---sudibunatixolipiwoxok.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://activepymes.com/pub/file/xuvon.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://duhocblueocean.vn/ckfinder/userfiles/files/rivaxovigosunini.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://hotelritariccione.it/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1606ebc7eba89f---samabugi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://barahi.com/assets/userfiles/files/risaraxanuwuvibabefibepo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/skout/mBVl/~3/DOqCt-cVA4I/uplcv?utm_term=cabinet+design+software+with+cutlistPDF 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_off0000fb97.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xFB97 11112 bytes
SHA-256: 49341f7a00e72007265d30001aa95a70545a01dbbe3907d68625c657ced746fe
font_01_sfnt_off0001155b.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x1155B 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_02_sfnt_off00012d6d.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x12D6D 17132 bytes
SHA-256: 167ff9a7ebc8fbfb18135ac116331c25d80aafb26b04b6face44a1f01d2ffd07