Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 0c0d4aa6a3986cbe…

MALICIOUS

PDF

85.6 KB Created: 2021-07-06 10:18:30 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-08-25
MD5: c1a0b9668c0af7aaa4ac44e055072c80 SHA-1: b1114a63035e415b82a09c5589d156d3908538fc SHA-256: 0c0d4aa6a3986cbe6303d2d989d3baa56b0cbfb7e894bed030bb1bd7183d5902
196 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment T1204.001 User Execution: Malicious Link

The PDF document was flagged by ML classifiers and ClamAV as malicious, exhibiting characteristics of a phishing or trojan delivery mechanism. It contains a high number of links pointing to compromised CMS upload storage and disposable hosting, likely intended to host malicious payloads. The presence of a fake CAPTCHA heuristic indicates an attempt to trick the user into clicking these links.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9951

Heuristics 7

  • ClamAV: Pdf.Phishing.Trojan-d2568dad23a94d95-d2568dad23a94d95-10044375-0 critical CLAMAV_DETECTION
    ClamAV detected this file as malware: Pdf.Phishing.Trojan-d2568dad23a94d95-d2568dad23a94d95-10044375-0
  • Fake CAPTCHA / human verification prompt high SE_FAKE_CAPTCHA
    Document displays a fake CAPTCHA or human-verification prompt — used to trick users into running commands or pressing keyboard shortcuts
  • 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 https://costumeworld.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160812ab04289e---tozeliraliluve.pdf In PDF document text
    • https://f1com.ge/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/73d2f3c1b628079d11399109217957d8/56756203844.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.waterlooarmsnewforest.co.uk/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/aa3eb0ed1878581675c9731034d1c1f8/61718380473.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://stuarteisbrucklaw.com/customer/3/d/9/3d947ad6ce2568d98b832ccf5548371bFile/20470707849.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://orderbestwings.com/uploads/files/49291564179.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://andreagarciam.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160972d5d41b41---didoki.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://inclinedigital.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a328b120faf---lubobubalofodenu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.oschouston.com/osc/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609f6bb2cefc8---dodewifazufa.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://sklepjola.pl/userfiles/file/rikazejobufibo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://beetsom.com/PROGRAM_FCKeditor_UserFiles/file/1320774428609e63034e544.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.kidnuri.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607c0016b4c39---58705522430.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://frontiersneurophotonics.org/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1/1607eeae2e1aa3---22256929755.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://sheeld.org/clients/d/d0/d021426cee8527c21a172be12ef3d645/File/fivewivoxizoj.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://pypconsultores.mx/userfiles/file/xewipi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://hattrick-sports.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160c45b4860f37---jibimala.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.infranetltd.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607281b1a0605---26296873050.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://biblioteka-koneck.pl/ckfinder/userfiles/files/ruxoxozawewilu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://bodymason.com/user_uploads/files/vuxes.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.lumisolar.pe/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160ce4f23a44ee---10185120198.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://promise-land.com/upload/file/telonetulenobem.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://sam-global.ch/files/file/77124821615.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://abimobiliare.pl/pliki/File/14541448662.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.petersmetalstitching.co.za/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1606cc4ec6e341---wuwabatukij.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://bursac.net/userfiles/file/gegotumudisiv.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/1eyvgo/aqOO/~3/1KS0DP0cxss/uplcv?utm_term=words+with+au+soundsPDF 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_off0000ed1a.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xED1A 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_01_sfnt_off0001052c.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x1052C 17148 bytes
SHA-256: d6964ec84090302c2cc045e18fe3939bfc40bed150659b9f0669de36a07e2b4b
font_02_sfnt_off00013208.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x13208 10348 bytes
SHA-256: 37c813c29e3e1a5d250d36d3498f8918fdb4a9a025bc874682e758c6c3a1dd0c