Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 8b9f80cfbb4907c0…

MALICIOUS

PDF

91.4 KB Created: 2021-07-06 03:26:41 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3)
MD5: f1acbb751595397318208928e794aac9 SHA-1: 7a8b328eeff174a5f3f7cecf9fa3dc9a5b02e843 SHA-256: 8b9f80cfbb4907c029582163dca43ebe4f8152bf5fc7e6f268d53ddf616a88ba
196 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment T1204.001 User Execution: Malicious Link

The PDF document contains a fake CAPTCHA lure, designed to trick the user into clicking malicious links. These links are hosted on compromised websites and disposable domains, suggesting an attempt to distribute further malware or phishing content. The ML classifier and ClamAV detection strongly indicate malicious intent.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9942

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://garglob.ru/uplcv?utm_term=age+of+empires+2+full+torrent
    • https://vidolamerica.org/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/e29d9194098a35bc403bcbf65d1550a1/37619200956.pdf
    • https://www.ideaklinik.com.tr/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160b0beebd3649---912896884.pdf
    • https://tehnol.ru/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160bfcf7a9c2d7---94259663705.pdf
    • http://jncs.kr/page_data/file/20210702112909.pdf
    • https://decoveinvestment.com/userfiles/file/tupuvijo.pdf
    • http://dobraukraina.org/sites/all/sites/dobraukraina.org/files/fimukuwanosopiwusiwofi.pdf
    • https://clumba-indoor.ru/files/files/wapale.pdf
    • http://medicapoland.pl/uploaded/file/78123810370.pdf
    • http://thehawthornnyc.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16074a93cc9c9b---20521925437.pdf
    • http://metamorfoza-krosno.pl/userfiles/file/57661503885.pdf
    • http://wypelnienia.kratex.pl/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/c0f12e49d096d2d5d3b505c2aca44d6a/nuvamuluxakexogig.pdf
    • https://lcd96.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/a83b737260c4d584afb08629673266c3/zegegefogemuzevomurifazo.pdf
    • https://htfcompact.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/259c7259f950efa335d9bc1a94284597/sevoni.pdf
    • http://lifestyleufa.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/e8369ce3561d57e401f297a45915c591/22125265621.pdf
    • https://argekaucuk.com/nbg/upload/files/mevurivazavugabid.pdf
    • http://2girlstrippin.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160cc62cd53683---tabegajozagedutugizenis.pdf
    • http://toshiba-center.ru/uploads/files/67535417604.pdf
    • https://betentour.com/sites/default/files/file/22092086806.pdf
    • http://anvlaw.com/userfiles/file/kiwoposip.pdf
    • https://ocvirapuato.com.mx/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/82616d866d1b7861c375308c15c553d1/tukixekewepiwajoxo.pdf
    • https://cairparavel.ro/app/webroot/files/userfiles/files/99147764198.pdf
    • http://zhouzhuank.com/v15/Upload/file/202172181223636.pdf
    • http://nuyewrecruitment.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/0d9e9f6c46b68a2ad2bcdf4ea5d1a082/gubonotuzesesevaz.pdf
    • http://www.w3.org/1999/02/22-rdf-syntax-ns#
    • http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/
    • http://ns.adobe.com/pdf/1.3/
    • http://ns.adobe.com/xap/1.0/
    • http://ns.adobe.com/xap/1.0/mm/
    • http://ns.adobe.com/xap/1.0/rights/
    • http://dejavu.sourceforge.net
    • http://dejavu.sourceforge.net/wiki/index.php/License

Extracted artifacts 3

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
font_00_sfnt_off0000fefd.bin
70ed079b6383f62fcd2d857f1cadab1a84e2b14e00f4738f9abbaddfa019914b
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xFEFD 10740 bytes
font_01_sfnt_off000117b7.bin
0a336e00e045b9243ce92455d3251c50f59d61397b7b35709b0ee2c67119da18
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x117B7 18276 bytes
font_02_sfnt_off00014844.bin
9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x14844 16792 bytes