Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 bcc1f7e1890f69de…

MALICIOUS

PDF

89.2 KB Created: 2021-09-02 06:11:41 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-07
MD5: c4318e558bd11c9e2e54d8d3e806dbbc SHA-1: e20e832dc36207d6465ec891caedb26e052f9ffe SHA-256: bcc1f7e1890f69de862fb280e06b345f6d07b2efca85bfe6c4d3a7ce8320e005
196 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The sample is a PDF document that employs a fake CAPTCHA lure to deceive users into interacting with it. It contains numerous links to compromised WordPress upload directories and disposable hosting, suggesting a phishing or credential harvesting campaign. The ML classifier and ClamAV detection strongly indicate malicious intent, likely to download and execute a second-stage payload.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9990

Heuristics 7

  • ClamAV: Pdf.Phishing.Trojan-d2528dad23a95d95-d2528dad23a95d95-10044376-0 critical CLAMAV_DETECTION
    ClamAV detected this file as malware: Pdf.Phishing.Trojan-d2528dad23a95d95-d2528dad23a95d95-10044376-0
  • 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 http://kd-council.com/upfile/files/61350774304.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://lynxitservices.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/14063712005.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://macautemple.com/userfiles/file/zimowoberow.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.sacproblemleri.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160b402dfea7ca---fezodixelakidebamid.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ergo-logo-bamberg.de/userfiles/file/55396171194.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://amesmedicalservices.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1611b41e7b3713---96446319004.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://luingpyrex.cz/foto/Image/file/95598200495.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.teppiche-waschen-hamburg.de/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16108e82091d20---sefasanomizamagusilove.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://josephfellerlaw.com/customer/3/d/9/3d947ad6ce2568d98b832ccf5548371bFile/futew.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.hotel-palladium.gr/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/iic4jfn7jf1qtacl06t4n6dhih/ravuririro.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://acetuitioncentre.com.au/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16081d84b15d25---xoviguvitura.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.goldenlantern.co.za/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a1855204b81---vekonijajawoxatovuzivof.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.rydalmereprestige.com.au/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/0dl0qfarshm9c1oiuhug2mie60/bukalegovived.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://geometrarontani.it/userfiles/files/xapuduzovasazuzuwuk.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://cmtoolsrental.com/user_img/files/63013276302.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.kadeavenue.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/50313b4740469a3ae62329bc52acf05c/vokek.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://sieckultury.pl/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/724d9004007f98bca7334198ec841572/fizaj.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://draftingfloorplan.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/rixafolanovukitulikopas.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://shsalumniauditorium.org/clients/f/fa/fa32e32112b7cad64a7d7e78b95ed61b/File/4183516725.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://severstroysnab.ru/userfiles/file/wukuwisagaxujodevaja.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://alkanboya.com/files/file///9859938114.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ke-sen.com/userfiles/file/1628741328.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ixtvs.de/_upload_bilder/_filemanager/file/41342303407.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://igigeothermal.jp/userfiles/file/19791952158.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/skout/mBVl/~3/ngfLrbzwjls/uplcv?utm_term=certificate+of+address+by+gazetted+officerPDF 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_off0000f575.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF575 10844 bytes
SHA-256: f1614bde20fd0be9554eed14f10d8fee5012286598fbb3396b7c54003efe6223
font_01_sfnt_off00010e8e.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x10E8E 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_02_sfnt_off000126a0.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x126A0 17740 bytes
SHA-256: 66492283ea86a77ea8a8ec9ad322b06ccdfb7b4553e98b649409fcf4e9b73132