Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 6d2914d2eb045251…

MALICIOUS

PDF

88.0 KB Created: 2021-07-26 19:33:25 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-09-14
MD5: 6b4edfb781b25b81fb9169a70665b127 SHA-1: 2048294afa8a4c4c2453593b0ebf6235b6ff8f6d SHA-256: 6d2914d2eb045251eaeb68868ddb0ff1009eb0e19354fa9075d7c9a189ebc2c6
204 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

This PDF document exhibits characteristics of a phishing lure, presenting a fake CAPTCHA to deceive users into interacting with malicious links. The presence of numerous links pointing to compromised CMS uploads and disposable hosting, coupled with ClamAV detection as 'Pdf.Phishing.Trojan', strongly suggests a malicious intent. While no scripts were directly extracted, the document's structure and embedded URLs indicate it's designed to lead users to further malicious content or downloads.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9972

Heuristics 8

  • 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.
  • 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 https://118highschool.am/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/55fc471a7608755d30766eeac18abb98/gowupuwowu.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://sakuragiramenandsushi.com/uploads/files/16245687902.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://an-professional.ru/img/files/file/99220816327.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://hz-karavany.cz/ckfinder/userfiles/files/suzivig.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://bsbcarpet.com/userfiles/file/sireboreminanimorute.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://folklorebridge.eu/uploads/pictures/files/58967916533.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://xn--80ackbssfuieecff0e8c.xn--p1ai/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/ch75a65nk4jmfrel39cfp9ihb6/wuguxan.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://sharidendesignasphalt.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/f44e50ecdbb173cc4a084c09ea8f049b/62730047609.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://kund-in.com/userfiles/file/64560905371.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://borderpak.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/3b7fb8d1a76595d92312026c9d76543d/lofijisomux.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://arci-mp.fr/admin/File/fawofumodididesujo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cbolean.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/apgunm3ujqsgvr6c84tmoj8ju7/90989283207.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.hotel-palladium.gr/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/9s4gdbl8e5kl53329bd9geloc5/noruvufanopofogomeriritul.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://floraplant.gr/FCKeditor/userimages/file/39028916544.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://agataklimowska.pl/userfiles/file/36500483467.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://travolution.travel/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/f246c7d98f70147b83e9e52cc23cc37c/98970460347.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://monyetjoget.com/contents//files/bajefusopibopewikije.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://dentalclinicbangalore.com/uploads/67820555869.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://odpadykj.cz/UserFiles/File/52217617989.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://kondicionery-lubertsy.ru/upload_picture/file/40319941972.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://afayl.com/userfiles/file/98732362620.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://divinesacredshakti.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/ccb085a46bc1973cf746ca8c535dfe87/41545142561.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://swotin.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160af7dc4ac3ea---39477183600.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://shimoltd.ru/images/file/22583906130.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.iycadana.org/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/mb6n7kqifsp90800nbj2m44gr7/47345155476.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/skout/mBVl/~3/BvfzZFkJO3s/uplcv?utm_term=come+si+scarica+spotify+craccato+su+androidPDF 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_off0000f338.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF338 10980 bytes
SHA-256: 487c1a8e5eadee07ac2382a127bed30af06304994ca0699d5f4c91883e62c734
font_01_sfnt_off00010cca.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x10CCA 16956 bytes
SHA-256: 8a1033f356e56df7266a1126aac0893580f00c78d38a8312833acd4fadfa91c5
font_02_sfnt_off000138dd.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x138DD 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1