Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 425b61dbab0d45db…

MALICIOUS

PDF

80.7 KB Created: 2021-09-19 03:01:43 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-31
MD5: 04ed6782e68dc5db627afc7070acd744 SHA-1: b361a15eec9c3b7c563e41bdc6cb2bf927de9649 SHA-256: 425b61dbab0d45dbe13546f8918c9a19b51b0ffbafe6a09708833d584961ebeb
204 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The sample was flagged by ML classifiers and ClamAV as malicious. It contains a fake CAPTCHA lure, designed to trick users into downloading a secondary payload from one of the numerous embedded URLs. Many of these URLs point to compromised CMS upload directories, suggesting a link farm strategy to distribute malware.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9949

Heuristics 8

  • 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.
  • Visual download / call-to-action button lure low SE_DOWNLOAD_BUTTON
    Document contains a call-to-action phrase ('Click here to download', 'Download Now', etc.) — low-signal unless other findings point to a malicious workflow
  • 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://www.qookspot.kitchen/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16145dcf8be88a---63331842016.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://gzmzwl.com/Uploadfiles/files/wonumabusuvafono.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.tonygssoulfood.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/7cc013c14dcd3fe61f1e955c8f68c789/daxarot.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://brucemayrockinstitute.com/assets/ckfinder/core/connector/php/uploads/files/18063992210.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://myucpb.net/userfiles/file/bevizigezikas.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://privateeducation.sg/verzsape/demo/upload/admin/files/36680629890.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://mi-stores.com/basketballtotaal/images/editor/file/32862211389.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://koltoztetes-szallitas-lomtalanitas.excore.hu/ckfinder/userfiles/files/pitomonamolo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://premiumvipbusiness.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/6737656c0d407c8640178f0f822325e8/favavijabap.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.koeru.eu/failid/file/kuzosuxukisorabonorelije.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cremeconferences.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/55a8c0396efefb10a8ef982666a622cd/pubebuve.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://dungculamdep.com/fckeditor_userfiles/file/46984392081.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://campfirewtx.org/userfiles/file/dimafopudipe.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ahzycw.com/upload_fck/file/2021-9-10/20210910135323695753.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://chiaranannini.com/userfiles/files/xikokemixuvun.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.barankayalar.com.tr/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1612fe4d28a8b0---filezibulivupakikiguwisi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://friulanamarmi.it/images/file/pemijedumowunoredudusazij.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://dongytueduc.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/9egm5skadtjpjevjgaqgj13j2d/bofodaseg.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://punaide.com/userfiles/files/nokopoka.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://westhollywood.ilovepokebar.com/uploads/files/xinofawaxutefeganegigi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://tocgia247.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/mifuntpm112mm4t95hiri6e7m6/bawepukavumawixegog.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://infinity8talents.com/userfiles/file/49686564331.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://inphuduong.vn/upload/files/mepebodoto.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.jysunshine-hotel.com/up_files/file/94350985830.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://kitpaisal.com/mypicture/file/60786656280.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/skout/mBVl/~3/Om9ozkHLxGw/uplcv?utm_term=sites+utorrent+download+movies+freePDF 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_off0000d6d7.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xD6D7 17744 bytes
SHA-256: 0e3bc42b62cbc0abf3a06f6927954636f9b4c4e742dba43b753174da0843f64e
font_01_sfnt_off00010475.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x10475 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_02_sfnt_off00011c8c.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x11C8C 10844 bytes
SHA-256: db3649eb3a9952520d39c2c503bb8f0016f1103b97b37078e852515f3c26d9fe