Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 3c8ddb7b0ac9288b…

MALICIOUS

PDF

106.5 KB Created: 2021-07-19 04:33:50 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-09-15
MD5: cc0f626f38623717d2f7441589aa8e3e SHA-1: abfada8e98653bdc5edb298c62d529230af1bfca SHA-256: 3c8ddb7b0ac9288b97d35e5f89dcb8454b907f1da3a40713a088aa37f41c2dd7
196 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The sample was flagged by a machine learning classifier and ClamAV as malicious. It displays a fake CAPTCHA, a common lure to trick users into executing further malicious content. The document also contains numerous links to compromised WordPress sites, suggesting it is part of a link farm designed to distribute malware.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9973

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://www.alertgy.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/0c6a5bb2d457ab5a0f36e0270cdd8f72/dizujiradesutetito.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://www.holzbau-hoelzl.at/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607ddbc59a742---favuvubazubose.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://theemperorsoldclothes.co.uk/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/kk8lkddjlufg51636j8fec8ml5/nodusajoritejonuvegunezo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.infratechgroep.nl/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/3576f774c25dcc67c2a0d377af359285/wanirariduwexosezu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://fruzsiflame.hu/userfiles/file/26428195756.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://shrmivirtual.org/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/dd253be99f247ff95fb78fc1d239ee8e/54885331473.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.zopfitravel.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608dba421b302---mobukupo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://vildmarksjagt.dk/userfiles/file/penedu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://besttailor.info/ckfinder/userfiles/files/52453335353.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://xperion.hu/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/0bf1d124a1415858ec960c64d3537e43/nawat.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.appsolutely.sg/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16086766a825f9---80604182356.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.roosprommenschenckelfoundation.nl/ckfinder/files/files/rulivovijefapevixaxuni.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://rialta.ie/userfiles/files/tewakixujotosezof.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://glosunspa.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160c4878d48d9b---nopefobuberemudoko.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.linkkorea.co.kr/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607d8c8f13394---tivolipewozexotijulu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://hk-dcc.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/53svnbplljsok05jl7s4u52rac/52041940908.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://dok-vo.ru/userfiles/file/6324544364.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://moma-restaurant.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160b0bc7186120---78229665248.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.geosuiteonline.de/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160ed949dbc4ae---wuxipibobotutokunu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.frankcapassoandsons.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16078d334549a9---97073644404.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://readxyz.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/4459cb17783f6443dbbe227feb1dd6f3/35847911803.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://luckyassessoria.com.br/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1606feab2bd9f8---menebum.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/1eyvgo/aqOO/~3/BkSY9tpko7c/uplcv?utm_term=how+to+rejoin+a+discord+server+you+leftPDF 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_off00013cfc.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x13CFC 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_01_sfnt_off0001550e.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x1550E 17740 bytes
SHA-256: b7c3eb0d7f2b30e15ac6eb77e63796ed51bca0283692d88dd74127a68ad560d7
font_02_sfnt_off00018361.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x18361 10956 bytes
SHA-256: 480af449e8235d117684c81225f616ad7cd8e1c5bb53a0ee2d0e6b8653239487