Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 298b8916561f0d89…

MALICIOUS

PDF

73.9 KB Created: 2021-09-17 19:02:24 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3)
MD5: 1119338e77701f9ba0ff61c30e547149 SHA-1: e131044078b97c876f5baee9422c68a2dd12bcab SHA-256: 298b8916561f0d890527b197284ccf9645c9d3661bd4b40f3de4906971360586
196 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

This PDF was flagged by a machine learning classifier and ClamAV as malicious, specifically as a phishing trojan. The 'SE_FAKE_CAPTCHA' heuristic indicates the document presents a fake verification prompt to deceive the user. The numerous embedded URLs, many pointing to compromised WordPress sites and disposable hosting, suggest a phishing or link-farming scheme designed to redirect users to malicious content.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9973

Heuristics 7

  • ClamAV: Pdf.Phishing.Trojan-d2528dad23a95d95-d2528dad23a95d95-10044376-0 critical CLAMAV_DETECTION
    ClamAV detected this file as malware: Pdf.Phishing.Trojan-d2528dad23a95d95-d2528dad23a95d95-10044376-0
  • 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 http://mebel-moscow.com/content/xuploadimages/file/pivawedajerikelited.pdf
    • http://zsmnowakowski.pl/userfiles/file/worigerobide.pdf
    • http://biondiairsystem.it/userfiles/files/xumabedokoputefuxil.pdf
    • https://angem.fr/userfiles/file/20267215178.pdf
    • https://atcotourismtravel.com/userfiles/file/jurino.pdf
    • https://www.toptalentusa.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1613ad52bb6f7d---69479864216.pdf
    • https://bentzendesign.se/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1613f9d88c1828---biwukegajepozojototel.pdf
    • https://edarky.net/data/file/besepepimuxiworala.pdf
    • http://dothi.info/images/files/lakatolala.pdf
    • http://m-s-g.ru/userfiles/files/88375593265.pdf
    • http://makaifruits.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/161355ac68d519---miforebazasujosu.pdf
    • https://matricula.arendic.cl/files/wakugazu.pdf
    • http://sungwoneng.com/upfile_editor/2021/files/sesuvebuvuwusijuminiwaxe.pdf
    • https://www.euroservicemilano.it/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1613b2fb3c200a---tajidoju.pdf
    • http://www.drivingschool-brno.cz/files/files/nagagijezin.pdf
    • http://katela.net/userData/board/file/foboku.pdf
    • https://facades-et-traditions.com/actualites/file/muzurazanunomuluvogutova.pdf
    • http://globalroomplus.com/bot/ckfinder/uf/files/64243764731.pdf
    • http://unseenadventure.com/userfiles/file/kosezopubozivifadogevizab.pdf
    • https://tomorrowhubs.com/upload/users/files/semupeta.pdf
    • http://harposwebdesign.nl/app/webroot/files/userfiles/files/kazexuweruwo.pdf
    • https://keralatemples.info/ckfinder/userfiles/files/kibebafuveter.pdf
    • https://www.funes.gob.ar/ckfinder/userfiles/files/lugosupuzanogokixawotin.pdf
    • http://nokianhakkablue.ru/ckfinder/userfiles/files/fibire.pdf
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/skout/mBVl/~3/ngfLrbzwjls/uplcv?utm_term=splash+music+maker+apk
    • http://www.w3.org/1999/02/22-rdf-syntax-ns#
    • http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/
    • http://ns.adobe.com/pdf/1.3/
    • http://ns.adobe.com/xap/1.0/
    • http://ns.adobe.com/xap/1.0/mm/
    • http://ns.adobe.com/xap/1.0/rights/
    • http://dejavu.sourceforge.net
    • http://dejavu.sourceforge.net/wiki/index.php/License

Extracted artifacts 3

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
font_00_sfnt_off0000bd3d.bin
9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xBD3D 16792 bytes
font_01_sfnt_off0000d554.bin
4fd39cb07d5af8caf04a201ac79b8c98ad49eac55bcfa4eca705e586736679e1
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xD554 10584 bytes
font_02_sfnt_off0000ed67.bin
8e5a9c8d22953ed61a857b5b75bd8f24e8391c30264f64eef024572ebbdc9ba3
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xED67 17156 bytes