Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 7196826ddeaca490…

MALICIOUS

PDF

84.6 KB Created: 2021-07-16 13:53:29 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-31
MD5: 30e3f49cc5f61fad62538b2ecd46d0b2 SHA-1: 8f4a166e26727131e7f1fb4b2314c88a079e776e SHA-256: 7196826ddeaca49027c05597b2c53e399ead754be77f0180ab8559e26bed6961
204 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment T1204.002 Malicious Link T1059.007 JavaScript

The PDF was flagged by ML classifiers and ClamAV as malicious, exhibiting characteristics of a phishing or trojan delivery mechanism. The presence of a fake CAPTCHA heuristic strongly suggests a social engineering attempt to coerce the user into interacting with a malicious link or executing a payload. The document contains numerous links hosted on compromised WordPress sites, indicating a link farm designed to distribute malware.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9956

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://averon.ca/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607594a10a0d8---kilagufom.pdf In PDF document text
    • https://remoteworkerclub.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/e1b959c0b09f959c531c8f6a250b4afe/98155385232.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://bkdesign.ee/userfiles/file/feder.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://alenakovalchuk.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/ca3e657685d29a8dbdd7eca211a1759e/lenepamavevokaziva.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://hitecds.com/userfiles/file/dafitabedakavevegufu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://bursaceviritercume.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160853b05c982e---zevej.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://elitstroycraft.ru/source/file/19992616740.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://habitat3.eu/userfiles/files/39630691705.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.eflox.net/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1606c8a0d4d890---bobetafa.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://cukiernia-waltar.pl/qcms/userfiles/file/dogoviluraxuwoxodalatugo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://gdr.co.il/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/379717ceca7a8c2774e45ac2f6da7a96/47998375765.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://seataclighting.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/3dc5dd82c05b7e2e59d80df27988af6e/87952340683.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://koetec.com/home/~ptow/public_html/ckfinder/userfiles/files/xowipuvalubululet.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://kraljicabih.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609c24df2ff17---82206700231.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://scales-center.com/shop/fck_file/file/30021559322.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://service-panev.com/userfiles/getatisorifadewedol.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://sosnovgeo.ru/userfiles/file/45235115698.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.bistro-e.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1606f9c182e524---kuwogokimofenolotukalix.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://davidhammerstein.org/userfiles/file/wipemerafij.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.apsetedavisi.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1606d8f69e4b37---lugodumedizezazitotut.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://best-turbos.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/2f0e1c1cea1fb45439f495f1e8932621/68931386676.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://eyetracking.pl/userfiles/file/79502528690.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://elmiraclassiccountry.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/m40fid7tuqfjeg5qfkmmihng92/gelolijolu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/skout/mBVl/~3/Om9ozkHLxGw/uplcv?utm_term=dbz+kakarot+android+downloadPDF 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_off0000ea38.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xEA38 16852 bytes
SHA-256: d9c3fc08e223b40dc7211250f45d3a1bfbf135fedc16cc8a58b403d2019ac509
font_01_sfnt_off000115f4.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x115F4 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_02_sfnt_off00012e0b.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x12E0B 10320 bytes
SHA-256: bc2110267f4d643f540766944a2e41fa8764d912f6f331fb88dd3b6d4d96b9fb