Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 fe14c0d530c550e0…

MALICIOUS

PDF

85.4 KB Created: 2021-07-19 06:20:08 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-12
MD5: d827ef05a2bbab72293f9d12e24eb900 SHA-1: b5a255d5f635f7a17e841a10d5d2fd87f5fac6be SHA-256: fe14c0d530c550e0533e502b74716e25ffa1a52d1ed4ab1d35ab99f0ff7c4f06
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF contains numerous embedded URLs, many of which point to compromised CMS upload directories or disposable hosting, indicating a link farm designed to redirect users. The ML classifier and ClamAV detection strongly suggest malicious intent, likely phishing or malware delivery. The presence of multiple external URIs and a link farm heuristic supports the attack pattern.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9951

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://heureka-cz.eu/files/fisikepowav.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://brooklynsmokeshops.com/admin/images/file/24518850878.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.peeryhotel.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/ae26e9054300714f91c88c60487250cb/gaxotasopusifipapatu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.sudburyhighspeedinternet.ca/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/c81a6d46d67b94f1acf1b4a95d00f619/bipapesasiri.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.loscam.com/lib_common/ckeditor/ckfinder/userfiles/files/28499243797.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://theydeserveastamp.org/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a7d52503b42---pojasorosorop.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://kiavysocina.cz/UserFiles/File/dororegudemimujixoxanob.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://renknh.com/ckupload/files/30001696178.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.onekaddy.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1606ca882169f6---judadena.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://scuderieverdina.it/scuderia/userfiles/file/jurutaluzetawijo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://proxima-design.cz/files/file/56941754126.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://michaels-limo.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160872bd8c48e8---xazavutafonasu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://stewsites.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/b151e591de88fb1d39d85682c1af5ca1/ralumovuvo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://menloathertonhigh1980.com/clients/6/6f/6f83464fe0b13873896cace574d4baa5/File/56544549394.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://kirakuramenandsushi.com/uploads/files/63927439836.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://partnermind.cz/images/files/namumir.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://acgroupenterprise.com/userfiles/file/bivejoda.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://intechsol.kz/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16091ea6268895---92695311316.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.businesswatchguardingservices.co.uk/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/1c1ob5ec5c5bnd2eh0a00m2n3m/12922099344.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://billsky.ee/files/file/kulogorexexorinil.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://pvsystexperts.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/6bvk3a8tv3c4jm0g51unke1sc1/66163443236.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://laxmigrouppune.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/aa907ae9383fba2b74a37836b1843053/dedeneli.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://noihoithanhtuan.com/media/ftp/file/setuzutuforabobipumageke.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://cargo3030.ru/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608ddb2dc1cfd---zelukidulojekubopuguwizav.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/skout/mBVl/~3/zMnd8XtcwSM/uplcv?utm_term=real+goal+achieversPDF 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_off0000ebd6.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xEBD6 17152 bytes
SHA-256: ad462185463d9136e243a82483e119e4ede1c1d78bc751061b82b8b55156ade0
font_01_sfnt_off00011888.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x11888 10420 bytes
SHA-256: a1e2e09fc283cb6cf50adc216641681d1139e1193afb813b382d25d9fb64027c
font_02_sfnt_off00013049.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x13049 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1