Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 e14cdd2a59ccf625…

MALICIOUS

PDF

89.2 KB Created: 2021-07-27 11:05:59 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-14
MD5: 18b1a4b47a832ea27b722adae43777ea SHA-1: 9b878e6b35075e2af6ba1f1c1f02f6661daea6e1 SHA-256: e14cdd2a59ccf625d1fc3bf87674edcff5296d037518db32d97b4b7484f126d6
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

The PDF contains numerous links pointing to compromised WordPress sites, indicating a link farm designed to redirect users to malicious content. The ML classifier and ClamAV detection strongly suggest malicious intent, likely related to phishing or malware distribution. Although no scripts were explicitly extracted, the PDF structure and link farm heuristic are indicative of an attempt to lure users to external resources.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9922

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.blackhillsdancecentre.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a4713b57dd4---bepuvitugerewupepigo.pdf In PDF document text
    • https://forex-robo.org/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/c9d54a92506edbeef136382d83ae3066/99598248692.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.reachcast.ca/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/568aaa95a9b821158b042ef61050a6ec/65534124621.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.llgnjinc.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/b144e7e3c6e3f93b9bb60d509317ce07/zisemefaregaka.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ludbaegitim.com/calisma2/files/uploads/60293409840.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://penoplex24.ru/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160c61dc3d36fb---19829373820.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://maidintown.co.uk/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/e768b46736df87ce04c54738f4ae182c/rujuxebupinaw.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://anjilh.com/uploadfile/file///2021043000581884.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://vicotelecom.vn/static/source/images/file/43846377518.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://mamap.in/ci/userfiles/files/forenogasigexujud.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.cir.cloud/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160755a7b4667a---96493164162.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://stepsforstarlight.org/clients/c/c6/c668404594a1c08d975ab50c7bec58f6/File/30931070618.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://iltorg.ru/upload/file/bikutunomugufigakezotep.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.schroedersales.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/6366e0993b82ee85e1f950cce9d07554/9579012947.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://greshamgilessalon.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/b3242e411c3cd32079724f98867ecd2d/82695802614.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ruresept.ru/files/file/zijisasal.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://zit-tech.com/userfiles/files/nepunuwisuparoxotukevufo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://jointrilogy.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609862a0aa077---68761844381.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ristoranteyuri2.com/userfiles/file/zolovazikusaxaraf.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.lindopoint.it/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/7e59db14366618c9e561f5a924ce4e19/33821263237.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://cesmclassof68cheyennewy.com/clients/82478/File/8679274184.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://kodeac.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/3o69q2flttfpp8hqdrgbipd96j/48299233217.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://store-connector.com/_upload_bilder/_filemanager/file/75144930622.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.ebsjosepirosamaria.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1606c888386be6---3108587933.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ontheedgeofnow.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160ae79672b344---37932342131.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/skout/mBVl/~3/ngfLrbzwjls/uplcv?utm_term=yu+gi+oh+duel+generation+mod+apk+119aPDF 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_off0000ed08.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xED08 11068 bytes
SHA-256: 016617e34fd2eb1aa5de186edeecde7bf1802e57c7930518f01566b4086fd741
font_01_sfnt_off00010662.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x10662 1696 bytes
SHA-256: 28c5bcedffb0f63c0f18ed07264126f7c833899b916de9a351f9850be7cb6bae
font_02_sfnt_off00010e6e.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x10E6E 18828 bytes
SHA-256: 4c2edb3ddbf9b8821cdce2615a53fbf8055e3e54ce0f421635fe2a5c1d6ac4f3
font_03_sfnt_off00013e90.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x13E90 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1