Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 63381d109e27d04b…

MALICIOUS

PDF

86.5 KB Created: 2021-06-29 06:00:24 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-09-13
MD5: 948f61aae44758b88e00b2994820643c SHA-1: 9739b1769e25bf733d24546854fd04f59b5b6ac4 SHA-256: 63381d109e27d04bb323733b89faa47bacf2948bc9897fd19d122bfa05b535ee
196 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

The PDF contains numerous links, many pointing to compromised WordPress sites, suggesting a link farm or phishing lure. The 'Fake CAPTCHA' heuristic indicates the document's primary purpose is to deceive the user into performing an action, likely to download a secondary payload. ClamAV detection further supports its malicious nature.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9848

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 http://nc2e.fr/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608d49e6e2d5d---2009087229.pdf In PDF document text
    • https://www.prowallpanama.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/992fffa6bef815da63d2aabe6a1f9c9e/71793857596.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://cosmikkino.ru/sadm_files/nitakovotusasefenisixax.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://sasalidayanisma.org/uploads/file/87059162895.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.kalirich.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/542ikrnr9ttlgamhmn1hun0rf4/tupepunaxadomusegaforuja.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://dharmapremipariwar.org/userfiles/file/62094255543.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.kissdocs.com.au/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16078ed0cd1b3d---60390260342.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://energy-labels.com/userfiles/file/17854308505.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://asustainable.com/global/file/zuzesop.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://areshin.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/aa8c20bc79eb9554dca39c2679e62554/kofev.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://vizcsap.hu/files/file/11046160857.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.hj-bouwt.be/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607b4f0767576---kexipuvude.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.entornopublicitario.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/3e00f69ad65203fc4834c06abe8898e2/rejugudurokesoledox.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://a2designbg.com/userfiles/file/vuxisosopitijibujat.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.megasaludips.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609b0529543b2---42184771650.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://3dreamstudios.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/8aeff85fee9d9869f6b9e81b3019523c/51459896831.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://technocom.pl/editor/file/weped.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://floridaholidayplanner.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/26b6aed90be90397eb723099ce3d8d04/22422079743.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://pelesiuvalymas.lt/i/File/83970096823.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://stcc-sa.com/motakamel/Ups/files/58435159756.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://aaz.sk/editor_uploads/files/46178568217.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://staging.impactredevelopment.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16095e4d8aff5d---31830698884.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://gavinlawoffice.com/customer/3/d/9/3d947ad6ce2568d98b832ccf5548371bFile/susabenetogatu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.chesapeake-lighting.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/6005c5c8d68768937c1f1b1e04db7e9f/68699326644.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://statewideroadservices.com/clients/879378/File/batibiputifazilariliw.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://cn-junsheng.com/upload/file///20216333327064.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Uplcv/~3/cv9VXjIrmdE/uplcv?utm_term=i+believe+writing+a+bibliography+is+important+becausePDF 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_off0000ebd1.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xEBD1 17160 bytes
SHA-256: ea0a982d841a6f5e5fe77f643fd900944b6f46bcab2f75c398afc6fbe3a338e8
font_01_sfnt_off000117ea.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x117EA 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_02_sfnt_off00013001.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x13001 11280 bytes
SHA-256: 89a868408830b9a3ac697057b38af349d95600c2f42f9a228481cae4d6c5d75e