Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 a9299032a115247e…

MALICIOUS

PDF

86.5 KB Created: 2021-09-21 21:18:08 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-26
MD5: 45e7f5eabf47b1b07eae628931484204 SHA-1: fd645df66cfa8629e9847fbe72fe858dac8c2ba4 SHA-256: a9299032a115247e877715d7841da5d8b486610ae68441fe9f9f6c75239146c7
204 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The sample is a PDF file flagged by ClamAV as a phishing trojan. It contains embedded JavaScript and numerous external links, many of which point to disposable hosting or compromised CMS upload directories. The 'Fake CAPTCHA' heuristic indicates the document's content is designed to deceive the user into performing an action, likely to facilitate malware download or credential theft.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9974

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.
  • Embedded JS stream low PDF_JS
    PDF references a /JS stream. Generic JavaScript is common in benign forms; specific dangerous APIs are scored by separate rules.
  • 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://chcial.ru/uplcv?utm_term=gta+5+mobile+apk+without+human+verification PDF link annotation
    • http://highdeal.linkeo.net/ckfinder/userfiles/files/pivanijarozuj.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://leadingedgecorporate.com/user_images/file/xifubefejowuwavolof.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://etepi.pt/js/ckfinder/userfiles/files/vobovegesumapowiz.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://thokhoavietnam.com/upload/files/32918925346.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://neilreardon.com/customer/3/d/9/3d947ad6ce2568d98b832ccf5548371bFile/gasimakenomafuzirijidevuz.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://kutscher-customs.de/gfx/userfiles/files/gaxikidijamive.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://kleinschadenexpert.com/userfiles/file/90321813360.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://web-idea.ro/app/webroot/files/userfiles/files/49115680305.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://alocainghien.com/uploads/userfiles/file/92625632296.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://giaphutelecom.com/tctt/sites/aaa/file/98923569125.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://orthodoxnews.us/file/tumuvuxuveripamavupaga.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://too.kg/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/457a3e83037b3ff83bdab5b9ed7401a8/vagujolujetob.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://achwvs.love-mrt.com/upload/files/62628812348.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://cbcom.eu/ressource/site-image/files/vodorusezuzezedibifed.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://zhymwz.com/upfile/file/ralijosexomupo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://khachsandomino.com/hinhanh_fckeditor/file/51106609774.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.gryf-wet.pl/ckfinder/userfiles/files/88573914911.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://principessavencanice.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16147d4ba3c58f---92847111069.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://3xlove.com/uploadfile/file/35590869696.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://nedimgame.net/calisma2/files/uploads/49880474102.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://salamatekhanevadeh.ir/ckeditor/files/files/89588338792.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://xn--c1ajalgzu0a.xn--p1ai/userfiles/file/baviwesupemifosawupolak.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://tion.hu/upload/file/87522441725.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://joyfool.art/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/1aa8410c8105fd2d05abe01ffa35db86/kipadokijomez.pdfIn PDF document text
    • 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_off0000eab6.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xEAB6 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_01_sfnt_off000102c8.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x102C8 18024 bytes
SHA-256: d00b9af81ef47cc41630c9bc97c03ebf9b9cad0bfc4315bc70d17dd86f7fa396
font_02_sfnt_off000131dd.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x131DD 11236 bytes
SHA-256: ebd30c0c1ff6afc5bb8164698205a77cebc1131da62ef63d02d792ca6913d12e