Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 3760d3f613ebc0a2…

MALICIOUS

PDF

95.9 KB Created: 2021-08-07 13:23:44 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-04
MD5: d428f152dfb88f14a6a29d3f399cd6e7 SHA-1: 384fd32326ff763480839b732f3ccfeac42f7e9d SHA-256: 3760d3f613ebc0a21278d0553a93fb1fdbea5066bd8dd451a322e7a35212c1e4
236 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

This PDF document was flagged as malicious by ClamAV and an ML classifier. It uses a fake-CAPTCHA lure and a password-protected-archive lure. The file embeds a large number of external links characteristic of an SEO link farm, many hosted on compromised CMS upload directories. Specific URLs and indicators for this sample are listed in the indicators section.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9926

Heuristics 8

  • 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
  • Password-protected archive handoff high SE_PASSWORD_ARCHIVE_LURE
    Document gives password instructions for an archive or attachment — often used to keep payloads encrypted until after gateway scanning
  • 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://actaviaserica.org/board/file/files/zuzebosifi.pdf In PDF document text
    • https://www.keystonecare.co.uk/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/8529ab8677cc3d5f2e618dbfc1947fa0/11887548719.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://lentes123.com/aym_image/files/97669886415.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://anhbanglaw.com/userfiles/file/jorometevo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://widepolymers.com/userfiles/file/39494221533.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://nonstopsushi.com/uploads/files/wopunadejojanuwidine.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://mobilesamara.com/img/files/file/woxirusiwezadoxuf.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.sg-callenberg.de/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160b49bc393cbd---21761748915.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.adanakursmerkezi.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160c9ddbb2812d---topuni.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ptk-astana.kz/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/de06f4d8eb924806d2ab8c01d906a7f6/29768602036.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://3e-recycling.ru/app/webroot/filesfiles/51062493821.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://autoscuolemontagna.it/userfiles/files/nugexaxabuxo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.grupohk.com.br/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1606f39700cffc---46443657991.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://arqing.es/ckfinder/userfiles/files/28996834549.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.cuadernos.in/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16073d74d2398c---39306105154.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://controlcert.se/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160b3f38ae5176---leraxinajutirax.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cafesca.org/ckfinder/userfiles/files/topunenowinanabow.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://skrabl.pl/www/rpbd/fck/file/47139421371.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.farparts.cl/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16089db8b72e03---worudixexologobi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://fallsplat.se/file/1357557452.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://rmdschoolandcollege.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/q321os7tlsc4mi1d41tnd0mbc2/19421991501.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.rosabrockenhaus.ch/ckfinder/userfiles/files/71827441797.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://cnpair.com/userfiles/file/51793353663.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cutletsmeat.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160bc60fea0849---pawapa.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/skout/mBVl/~3/FevRqgeaUVY/uplcv?utm_term=cricket+wireless+login+to+my+accountPDF 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 4

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
font_00_sfnt_off0000f9e4.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF9E4 17880 bytes
SHA-256: fc181936d5a6f32636939e4a1b9df15ca0c07b57676c154ab620a6365b918dee
font_01_sfnt_off0001290e.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x1290E 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_02_sfnt_off00014125.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x14125 10996 bytes
SHA-256: 1c2b078a71402da2992defb1895688e30500cc5da8b81e3b21cc4b48161b516a
font_03_sfnt_off00015ace.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x15ACE 16384 bytes
SHA-256: 6bc4420bbfa61156f096b6f0725168f8601d7500e332933a6f3144c23c09a2fe