Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 c00a2ec50ba4df1a…

MALICIOUS

PDF

102.1 KB Created: 2021-09-16 02:53:55 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-11
MD5: 500c89e6aac30b9a366adeaa5b46871c SHA-1: 97e68ee86463948194136a5de9b67051ee5a3eea SHA-256: c00a2ec50ba4df1a290678e4f74849673084397b579e7e2df98953e478aeafd5
196 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment T1203 Exploitation for Client Execution

The PDF contains numerous links to disposable hosting and compromised CMS upload storage, indicating a link farm designed to distribute malicious content. The 'Fake CAPTCHA' heuristic strongly suggests the document's purpose is to deceive the user into executing a payload, likely by clicking a link that downloads further malware. No scripts were extracted, but the overall structure and heuristics point to a phishing or malware distribution scheme.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9961

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://abwhopewell.com/uploads/files/dafademezomevekor.pdf In PDF document text
    • https://equator-maritime.com/userfiles/file/nuwabutejajabutixuna.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://rhondachem.com/d/files/48161538184.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://herborgthailand.com/file_media/file_image/file/tijuvurexizo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.hauptsache.cc/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16135997d92465---weluzizinikabuwexezunun.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://bebelino.ru/userfiles/file/87878185764.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://shesob.com/file/files/vurapofav.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://zhongyuemedia.com/filespath/files/20210901101032.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.santabriganti.org/admin/ckfinder/userfiles/files/japijesepodunetuxag.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://freedomtampons.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/51ca5de4acff832dc5a6c3dbd2112c8c/58488823758.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://pwmtqatar.net/userfiles/file/gokimenolomuvurileguboniw.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://rebates.forex/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/v6k1mg25a4274vg5rmq08o3rr6/7576568323.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://fzcce.com/aimgs/uload/files/padasuwapojetiwofitudedi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://officialbacknumber.com/editor_up/bizeluvuma.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://xtra360.net/campannas/file/sewopafefa.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://njbeihang.com/uploadfile/file///2021090504063333.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://sellmysayarah.com/userfiles/files/80567821179.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://tc-antey.ru/uploads/files/vazabufadimosinosedezupak.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://mcq-exambd.bdbabymart.com/app/webroot/ckfinder/userfiles/files/nasonoga.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://conblocmanado.com/pics/file/gomikujolaxokumonuwikat.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://dsodrecital.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1613ca809d88a7---judodapapeko.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://devitohomesorlando.com/userfiles/files/60027862976.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://bagpack.com.np/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1614264791a65c---4981755991.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://nacituran.com/userfiles/file/ruxemilupuni.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://patriciogaete.com/upload/file/gesasaza.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/1eyvgo/aqOO/~3/YTWXjIUwRh0/uplcv?utm_term=kickin+it+jack+and+kim+kiss+episodePDF 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_off00012737.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x12737 10744 bytes
SHA-256: bbe5b482df9784fe587eea667c666fdbdd8f1bbb6687f1758d29a31ea0d9e920
font_01_sfnt_off00013fe8.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x13FE8 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_02_sfnt_off000157fa.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x157FA 19544 bytes
SHA-256: 817d50e48805b49b1a2add98a4d9f8c2b3caba9b4a2cfe6082e6fbb6ecba79af