Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 5eef7cc61f3e68f7…

MALICIOUS

PDF

75.9 KB Created: 2021-07-08 02:25:12 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-11
MD5: d8c32f84de00d71e156c4fd335b1db08 SHA-1: ad14576152220dacb9bb73fa72d9215945e95af0 SHA-256: 5eef7cc61f3e68f7fc156fe32dff7a07c8896288524d4d4095c65d4e2e25f418
196 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

This PDF file was flagged by multiple heuristics, including a high-confidence ML classifier and ClamAV, indicating malicious intent. The 'Fake CAPTCHA' heuristic suggests the document's primary purpose is to deceive the user into performing an action, likely to bypass security or initiate a download. Numerous URLs were extracted, many pointing to compromised CMS upload directories, suggesting a distribution network for malicious content.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9963

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://kompaspt1.com/contents//files/fonijurunofozetinegaf.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://webhenevents.com/clients/868374/File/jibalaraxapavafim.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://rethabise.co.za/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160ae1d1b35f62---34465728378.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://svetpoznaniyaonline.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/9badebb0204c6ab4ae7e692389a486e4/10621024230.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://relleno-acidohialuronico.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/7735b103695ef3de2c2a11e78ad55bad/tubenif.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.alwaysflorida.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a632c88a35a---29701421347.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.tif.cn/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/qjshtu40cb7cfu1qdurnciio6i/mutedi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.circoloaletrium.it/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608910c0d31d7---vatapogafukawevikopatezit.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://interesttour.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/e31ea278793701f2d92d34319bd6de3c/vikidanuto.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://kernenshepler.com/customer/3/d/9/3d947ad6ce2568d98b832ccf5548371bFile/13421372581.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://alkhairi.co.uk/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/966ec18afd48197335178f1285b9ee57/30717959280.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.pirac.org/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/eb5dbbb12d65c3753c2eee1867f4a695/41490652062.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://boldvision.tv/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160d1e3ebda7c1---58867550893.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://cmrivestimenti.com/userfiles/files/62498908992.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://quatanggiabao.com/images/uploads/files/diderefevebologij.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://bellezaeimagen.com.mx/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160afb6f518b1f---39665722358.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://lerong.vn/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/3b913f370af34eed822d42bb89ff53b3/fawufimurekulogabujibude.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.isnb.co.uk/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/43780e2c2459350648b7ea40fb774621/91198883269.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://popa.com.br/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/1ddc71e2a5364b95bef8dfbf360e7a95/94809540542.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://kondicionery-ivanteevka.ru/upload_picture/file/daruw.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://binarbaidfabrication.com/public_html/userfiles/file/7906134861.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://actionelectric.pt/www/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16088e2408d9bf---suvurep.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/skout/mBVl/~3/YTWXjIUwRh0/uplcv?utm_term=st+gertrude+cemetaryPDF 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_off0000c41c.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xC41C 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_01_sfnt_off0000dc33.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xDC33 10472 bytes
SHA-256: e22c89d624047ecdf736a9fee65d0b0be3589e5a0bf8b3a26eff5b5a976c8f57
font_02_sfnt_off0000f3da.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF3DA 17468 bytes
SHA-256: 1466434eaaa32537588ce1abb2e793c33234865cbe16420edb80af8c5888bf35