Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 8232a7ddf77416b6…

MALICIOUS

PDF

89.0 KB Created: 2021-09-03 07:45:06 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-27
MD5: f443a0ffe1e74c29a71e4dadb5b324ae SHA-1: 49a137aedb8436c4b98ae144aa8aaa059ef23c4e SHA-256: 8232a7ddf77416b60bdbfa078b5ff2d80a3b7fb0cb6da5688a68679c72157442
196 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

The sample is identified as malicious by ML classifiers and ClamAV. It presents a fake CAPTCHA, a common lure to trick users into interacting with malicious content. The document also contains numerous links to external PDFs hosted on compromised websites, suggesting a phishing or credential harvesting attempt.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9976

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://www.focus.mu/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/30ab2fd63a8f805693340fd874b15032/gofatigezutiw.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://hoya-system.com/uploads/files/202109011759343364.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.weldcor.ca/public/ckfinder/userfiles/files/65557472652.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://law.com.sg/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/1766fcb390a7e8e83f5f4d85b33b1bc3/55981662719.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://bozoklar.org/ckfinder/userfiles/files/nobezaveriferapopofusep.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://bookatowncar.com/userfiles/file/40071855484.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://finestblogger.de/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/vbg70rpuqf7cs8ri0uae38ghpc/batew.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.glasswindowequipment.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/73152cd3b49ab38d0e88704531c68e69/84415887889.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ivepe-elearning.gr/assets/UserFiles/mainHome/file/zikafigavegunisiwa.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://gat-asset.com/CKEdit/upload/files/nafuja.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://pharmnet.cz/ckfiles/files/files/bonawobupovimazewuzuje.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://fatheragneliti.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160bec9905e5fd---28870247171.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://legacydockandmarine.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/fe4f5a4f0065b3e36d6f86103aae3814/jenepisutaf.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://5percent-design-action.com/upload/users/files/2275900789.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://fellowpeo.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/09f00c6b88edf95ceeda4c9505c81411/54841964265.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://xn----8sbpvg0afdbe.xn--p1ai/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/4ike97280324p6naarrg28nof7/banogovida.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://zdrowejaja.com/Upload/file/64240984508.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://alice-immo.com/userfiles/file/nogubutagiwutumudiluripot.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://eduomania.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608e36bd94e13---bojufezejaxosigalamarimo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://tort-art.ru/userfiles/file/rugirakewagal.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://weilandensemble.nl/ckfinder/userfiles/files/98017120291.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://jmcoverseaspvtltd.com/uploads/files/59578274970.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://sealand-pptc.com/userfiles/file/43452904302.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/1eyvgo/aqOO/~3/6naE_Nh8_CY/uplcv?utm_term=bearing+design+calculations+pdfPDF 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_off0000f5d7.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF5D7 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_01_sfnt_off00010de9.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x10DE9 18488 bytes
SHA-256: af383ebfa12ef3bd27dda5615c8ae89a58e090647320058fd58ce62361a7a4cc
font_02_sfnt_off00013d0d.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x13D0D 10948 bytes
SHA-256: 4dbf04c7e08bfb06a4e4d99a7e79ca30efa1fed9a16aa41c5f9cef5e4f9b7218