Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 fc14ee0c3a481803…

MALICIOUS

PDF

104.6 KB Created: 2021-07-03 13:54:06 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-23
MD5: 0fa5d9b636d2524b36d132ec6263cfa0 SHA-1: 3e578abcef0cb19f75266adfde424d966179fbeb SHA-256: fc14ee0c3a48180398c9a28e659901ef2139c724f9cd14091dab6751a54ab890
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF file was identified as malicious by ClamAV and an ML classifier, indicating a high likelihood of malicious intent. Heuristics reveal it functions as a link farm, with numerous URLs pointing to compromised WordPress sites and disposable hosting, suggesting an attempt to redirect users to malicious content. The presence of external URIs and link farms strongly suggests a phishing or malware distribution vector.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9919

Heuristics 6

  • ClamAV: Pdf.Phishing.Trojan-d2528dad23a95d95-d2528dad23a95d95-10044376-0 critical CLAMAV_DETECTION
    ClamAV detected this file as malware: Pdf.Phishing.Trojan-d2528dad23a95d95-d2528dad23a95d95-10044376-0
  • 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://admio.ru/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160921dba49dc4---95923049551.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://massvt.sk/editor_uploads/system/files/gilinulodabepebef.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://alvasari.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608046f786309---21919801838.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.opdrrustukalac.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160bf2f7546b5d---kofugilez.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://sad-azov.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/6810f54d9b8b23914acb9024c619fd03/83746470048.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://flardochform.se/userfiles/file/latuwedebebeposaxetipupo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://1sis.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607948a4c0d00---viwujasotaketelekesedam.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.opencalgary.org/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160789349606b5---73501699038.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://pluviaterra.mx/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/ef39420d5ffef90876641d366b6cd990/ganuvexijigolanolapar.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.mondzorgvesa-voorschoten.nl/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609a397b2ba1f---89465977991.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://rhythmcprandfirstaid.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/b019366cab70a5683adf9df4746e43e1/8382033492.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://nek.ua/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160ad703553ffb---1346498565.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.inkfactory.pk/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160bb9fe69fec4---9001107933.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://prsnashville.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/078099525514bb1b36b65ee85071287b/kukomenoborafafutat.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://stefandes.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a081a9a8aea---jipowat.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://mkngsp.ru/upload/files/84726859065.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://bienbao.org/uploads/files/4506809863.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.sodigital.it/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16098f61fa8040---76745329713.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://xn--90ad5ackt1d.xn--p1ai/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/40146061d652cb305d48b372c3fe7e09/67671510350.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://bestmiamiturf.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/9d34537e1501a7969c05592500937353/jafilidewabidupadepo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://puertoestereo.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/529lr5d01ui1db66ienhcumlps/nexob.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://beaufortbond.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/fa3490fc372d9b7ffa8ca8e12648163b/dukununiv.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://angarakshaksecurity.com/userfiles/file/xutijex.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://klingende-zeder.de/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160c3e9cde4598---49472809904.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://masini-de-ambalat.ro/images/userfiles/79736743263.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/skout/mBVl/~3/6naE_Nh8_CY/uplcv?utm_term=critical+value+calculator+with+sample+size+and+level+of+significancePDF 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_off00013276.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x13276 18096 bytes
SHA-256: 72c837ae414502d6e942b8a2dbfed8aaff6a4a1f107ac93f1c1a12cfbd59b9dc
font_01_sfnt_off000161a6.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x161A6 11408 bytes
SHA-256: 35074e4bd9627ea2f15d909e203ab11e6b5f64035b2474b8615614e94acb4f59
font_02_sfnt_off00017c52.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x17C52 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1