Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 476b44adb71be862…

MALICIOUS

PDF

81.8 KB Created: 2021-09-12 22:15:21 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3)
MD5: be68b0e9f3a7a5d9f89ca641bf7c053a SHA-1: f04bd295ef08a0bd71094f791e246a9b100c194c SHA-256: 476b44adb71be862fd67488a73f84156f16b9d20cb48d34460f3a3cc9ac3ee00
196 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

This PDF document was flagged by ML classifiers and ClamAV as malicious. It contains numerous links to external websites, many of which appear to be part of a link farm designed to obscure the ultimate destination. The presence of a fake CAPTCHA heuristic strongly suggests a phishing or malware distribution attempt, likely using the embedded links to deliver a second-stage payload.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9981

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://krisoc.ru/uplcv?utm_term=download+game+attack+on+titan+for+android
    • http://sakulchaiplace.com/Uploads/file/282766449.pdf
    • http://baikalspring.ru/ckfinder/userfiles/files/44083018967.pdf
    • http://antoniolescio.net/userfiles/files/pujebalote.pdf
    • http://szymonadamczyk.pl/uploads/fck/file/11547984517.pdf
    • https://speedwayinfo.hu/uploads/file/93003590162.pdf
    • https://enville.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16134e4510f150---88222787481.pdf
    • http://studiotecnicomaglio.it/userfiles/files/kijon.pdf
    • https://netwindowvn.com/uploads/userfiles/file/50873552308.pdf
    • http://numere-mopede.ro/mm/file/65605921652.pdf
    • http://jowinbio.com/upload/files/202109111453347061.pdf
    • http://thewhitmerlawfirm.com/customer/3/d/9/3d947ad6ce2568d98b832ccf5548371bFile/sivamodizosovapikapemu.pdf
    • https://globalmediaminds.com/uploads/files/narupenefe.pdf
    • https://gkscam.com/userfiles/file/68227336436.pdf
    • http://eugensa.lt/app/webroot/uploads/userfiles/files/vusitokodulekuledixida.pdf
    • http://www.leesii.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1613ada092ea59---20287742426.pdf
    • https://8foro.exceltur.org/exceltur_nuevo/ckfinder/userfiles/files/23794153374.pdf
    • http://kronospan-mofa-hungary.hu/editor_up/kukexitosegomivi.pdf
    • http://unionnutritech.com/upload/files/58544601927.pdf
    • https://www.advids.io/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1613a773b184be---17634293507.pdf
    • http://mellorymotors.ru/admin/ckfinder/userfiles/files/kimakugezimiwasarokalidar.pdf
    • http://dakov.hu/_user/file/8412417008.pdf
    • http://asia-test.informacittadino.net/media/files/bixeliduziwexumezefed.pdf
    • 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_off0000db3a.bin
9b431c1ab455f2162a54a3e9de7a0706f547b3b931e82b25683b3e60052ec69a
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xDB3A 10832 bytes
font_01_sfnt_off0000f400.bin
2791c99272863683d25adf35fc61d9154a559d4692de74acff211d03c4e49ad1
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF400 17400 bytes
font_02_sfnt_off00012136.bin
9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x12136 16792 bytes