Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 9e5b2899974cca5f…

MALICIOUS

PDF

80.9 KB Created: 2021-06-26 06:07:03 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-08-20
MD5: df963aef6d7ed9524ab5c23f37ca361b SHA-1: 11b63f50098c171ed6c0c7a245910e8a3faeae27 SHA-256: 9e5b2899974cca5f9107ed11919beaed8d2bbb00fb0fba68618bb42c36cdfe4e
196 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The sample is a PDF document that utilizes a fake CAPTCHA lure to deceive users into clicking malicious links. The ML classifier and ClamAV detection strongly indicate malicious intent. The document body is unreadable, but the presence of numerous links to potentially compromised websites and the fake CAPTCHA heuristic point to a phishing or credential harvesting attempt.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9960

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://jjmassociates.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/b4047cf9803611b09ee66b0ecd377184/palivo.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://tydafa.com/dafa/uploadfiles/20210612120905.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.holderit.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16081d92feafec---sisumeviwilolekevaxinis.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://mamsongdamchoi.com/images/chua-phan-loai/files/93252957269.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://amirep.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/e063f5238951e2d8da435e88fdf8275b/96321427970.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://greenplanetnepal.com/userfiles/file/dusupiteka.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://michaelwilliamslaw.com/customer/3/d/9/3d947ad6ce2568d98b832ccf5548371bFile/nijixa.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://samafb.org/uploadfilefiles/nujedonewasa.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.straightmyteeth.eu/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/98b121d91c61e60b958f6e8f5c3590a5/nasowateremokagoteto.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://kuechentreff-schmid.de/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/a4i1jhfpafjgd684sa14nbt3fa/veviwukoluwetumokapaga.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.stockholmswingallstars.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16073df1ec048e---wepikagebenogewigezo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://laneopx.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160b2c66f6d644---86503236274.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://binarbaidfabrication.com/public_html/userfiles/file/24357343647.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://sarujiovalente.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/b2uleh5tiobdah5todf2g2fsl1/rigutavoxuwisu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.endthestigmacounselling.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/niv6fst59nmed5ln75sn43jp10/91450587264.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://iideree.org/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16083454c75c27---25623099725.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://jeugdopdewetenschapsagenda.nl/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160801ad861371---wodogururikigus.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://suhrsmad.dk/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16094bc26d87bf---63273918263.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://smarttactic.ro/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160bd5bf23100a---pukisix.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.enviedecrire.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609415abdc605---guzajuz.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.lavalledesign.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16079b1ea0d7bc---83400252040.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://envomask.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/c9b314154ecd0379b52afac2c558f7a7/mitotexuv.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://cuacongtudongbinhduong.com/upload/files/46059733550.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/1eyvgo/aqOO/~3/fzgW7-mxBc0/uplcv?utm_term=android+5+messenger+apkPDF 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_off0000d974.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xD974 17844 bytes
SHA-256: bc9577557500eff9f685e195dd988737201861d82f735624f5e3b35a29cfda50
font_01_sfnt_off000105cf.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x105CF 10800 bytes
SHA-256: 4a1ef4cf3833b4af4db45695df2900823249f2e8fe871a329bcd47c9b9663dc1
font_02_sfnt_off00011e83.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x11E83 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1