Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 2e7d894fcb149b01…

MALICIOUS

PDF

83.3 KB Created: 2021-09-19 21:14:50 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-14
MD5: 5a1e36e07bf1b73550ae8b22c45cf621 SHA-1: e88f324bdde523922bca15957dc6dde5a888e6bf SHA-256: 2e7d894fcb149b01759e71df2496202737a2b80775056ace90430e5ace355cb9
196 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF file was flagged by ML classifiers and ClamAV as malicious, with heuristics indicating it functions as a fake CAPTCHA or human verification prompt. This suggests an attempt to lure users into executing further actions, likely to download a second-stage payload from one of the numerous embedded URLs. The presence of multiple external URIs and a link farm heuristic further supports this phishing and download-lure pattern.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9991

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 https://chcial.ru/uplcv?utm_term=ets2+for+android+without+verification PDF link annotation
    • https://aokman-drive.com/d/files/pujodelonuka.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://elementyzlaczne.pl/media/file/7159815219.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://indiachristian.org/uploads/files/mifogimezak.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ontech.vn/images/ckeditor/files/15310723519.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://crimesla.com/customer/3/d/9/3d947ad6ce2568d98b832ccf5548371bFile/rofelenejikurovokure.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://tpijobportal.com/ckeditor/ckfinder/userfiles/files/60686830984.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://bor-diing.com/upload/files/55266192776.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://eros-arena.com/eros/userfiles/file/92604854995.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://hondasushi.com/uploads/files/11352373825.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://penzion.sarmo.cz/Images/file/mirivesovadagenejibevikab.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://abwmercury.com/uploads/files/7302335538.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://izumrud38.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/10649049558.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://aylabawadi.ae/userfiles/file/1885555673.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://textosl.com/upload/editor/file/48830543657.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://rffsev.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/98acfb3cbd5084ba1627a158c51bf4d4/sonetapiven.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://aloisiquadri.it/userfiles/files/kasejilogu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://7mark3t2-7aya.com/contents/files/muruvuxopaguvakeroge.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://spencershaulageltd.co.uk/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/b055685cd1ddabcae5b971cde9ce8075/18692409148.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.hkqi.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/161403a397901b---viwinizekunezedavovefive.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_off0000e170.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xE170 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_01_sfnt_off0000f987.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF987 10880 bytes
SHA-256: 446190ccb8e6795f4fbf2934649a2f58860466d8c0e04345c3f3170ed2f15ec4
font_02_sfnt_off000112cb.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x112CB 17376 bytes
SHA-256: b3045c394c9b26621b3e1b8b6ccedf98617154b8ad3b62289317d429bbf21587