Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 e14aa625ff266c0d…

MALICIOUS

PDF

80.1 KB Created: 2021-09-05 02:52:56 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-27
MD5: 61e32ca14ef73f4942fe1e41992be029 SHA-1: 033d5c2ef8f8b353047822e17ed4d5a9d6950664 SHA-256: e14aa625ff266c0d4de7517c78cd346170a5b77ba57748ee93fc2bccdcdccae7
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The ML classifier and ClamAV heuristic strongly indicate malicious content. The PDF contains numerous links pointing to various domains, many of which are hosted on compromised CMS uploads or disposable hosting, suggesting a link farm designed to distribute malicious files or redirect to phishing sites. The document body is heavily obfuscated and unreadable, providing no further context on its specific purpose beyond the link farm behavior.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9911

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://auxerretv.com/content/public/file/56045027855.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://bhk-aindling.de/userfiles/files/nipibibes.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://geredekombiservisi.com/userfiles/file/gefirajemi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://heydarbaba.org/resimler/files/11774843800.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://saint-florentin.charcutier-traiteur.fr/ckfinder/userfiles/files/32964608586.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.movingintofreedom.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160c4e6a698d81---sezolivu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://juha.be/_files/file/ganavaxenijofiru.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://123kozijnofferte.nl/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/f3hkisn7f8g3kvrg8clvqsimb6/wigusijusepijaradekon.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://goactive.hu/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/dd3e1f00e86cca93ef7577a4ed31019b/risosawiwebowemijojilani.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://counterreaction.net/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16076ef6c4824a---xuruzokaparobubiku.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.korayozelguvenlik.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160c11a9ee9c95---gepekirokananupiw.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://rybarict.cz/webpagebuilder/ckfinder/userfiles/files/37270147341.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://clubmaniacr.com/campannas/file/zugasemebulowifubibugelow.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://dfa-finanz.de/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16083928f6950d---63224200817.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://haitrungkim.vn/uploads/userfiles/file/gifezonikalupopulonemaru.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.emmabowman.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/3fae1ddb2b133f02e7459ea61ce4682e/55975904116.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://3dreamstudios.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/1736c1176015dde140764d90c39f8d5c/najumofutajedab.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://petgears.com/app/webroot/files/file/vixamin.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://aunay-sous-auneau.fr/ckfinder/userfiles/files/37781989028.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://mamproducciones.es/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608d32891b5b3---venuzimosegife.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://asalsold.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160e16bcd62c15---89101945801.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.puhito.hu/uploads/98955118249.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.saenger-ohg.de/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160836a2026884---70689105305.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.ortodonciaelisafarache.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/niviragizexejekoke.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://plenaadoracao.com.br/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160d67b1d6e2a3---58293335045.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://calmoinc.com/upload/editor/file/gujifakakuv.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.pferde-fuer-unsere-kinder.de/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16100ebd9143b0---sorizategupinameja.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/skout/mBVl/~3/A3Ryygt5BCM/uplcv?utm_term=qbasic+programing+language+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_off0000d2b9.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xD2B9 11164 bytes
SHA-256: b01a1535ced006183aa0fb216bf8d09a12eaa42406ecb1b2655afa13dfba3332
font_01_sfnt_off0000ec74.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xEC74 17732 bytes
SHA-256: ebd4be4cca90f3740ade1fca2e148fa97f469f9f839f2465dfa29aab648ff57e
font_02_sfnt_off000119f1.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x119F1 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1