Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 138d11e5d2199030…

MALICIOUS

PDF

81.6 KB Created: 2021-09-18 21:35:34 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-12
MD5: 5c1e3d828d037237e11ed1e1522b9935 SHA-1: 683a047341adb06b056127f91d5a08db0bdd204c SHA-256: 138d11e5d2199030fd1536beb6b3c86219f2e0deb7bc54145d1f9b3f7e7fc075
196 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

This PDF document was flagged by multiple heuristics as malicious, including a fake CAPTCHA lure and links to compromised websites. The presence of external URIs and link farms suggests an attempt to redirect the user to malicious content or download further payloads. While no scripts were directly extracted, the PDF structure and heuristics indicate a phishing or malware distribution attempt.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9975

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://philabc.ru/uplcv?utm_term=legend+of+zelda+mobile+game+free+download PDF link annotation
    • http://villa-margherita.biz/userfiles/files/babujajirisujuzamul.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://denprokhorov.ru/images/file/24247462922.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://khonggiansangtao.com/platformecom/img/upload/file/palepesuvobasukimix.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://easyliveconstruction.com/ci/userfiles/files/ravuwizu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://nd-58.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/9ba8e40fca12c9d60f013c7089c01830/gutewabigotoluw.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://paeonia.ch/userfiles/files/93210185185.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://cutskytools.com/d/files/liludofovowota.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://tjsijiqing.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/2021/0911/c473c9165ac5f4905107b89b5f62763f.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://moniimpex.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16145939ab339e---wipogi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://bassbasement.org/userfiles/file/varadufixivi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://vandofigueiredo.com/userfiles/file///41100608985.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ateliergermain.club/sites/default/files/file/nasavitevarexixunakidope.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://struttur-arch.it/userfiles/files/96842643794.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://pronobile.com/catalog/file/78855831893.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://thekitchendesignstudio.org/uploads/files/87924590318.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://intechsol.kz/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/161411d516df73---13040120326.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://votejoedestefano.com/editorData/file/ledizawowivafaka.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://dietgame.net/admin/fckeditor/data/file/20210905022558.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://psychotherapie-coeppicus.ch/userfiles/files/47266640684.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://sogelec-eng.com/files/ckfinder/files/32314580092.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://galeriejacqueselbaz.com/userfiles/file/19113475187.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://pixel.bg/img/file/wutip.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.cascinasorigherio.it/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/161302d7a6f0e7---81028754097.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://bolt-go77.com/fckeditor/userfiles/file/64503565531.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://willes-gb.com/uploads/files/202109071238223063.pdfIn PDF document text
    • 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_off0000da0c.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xDA0C 10672 bytes
SHA-256: b42e78613f204a6ded4f89485db6e5d0ac6e7f4507a56da9ac6b753f4bfbd6f5
font_01_sfnt_off0000f245.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF245 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_02_sfnt_off00010a57.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x10A57 17808 bytes
SHA-256: 56ed40202ebe2915497a65c876ee98865508e9989324120db9aa33681a850672