Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 c2a2388618355641…

MALICIOUS

PDF

100.9 KB Created: 2021-09-11 05:18:47 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-09-29
MD5: d919e83dfc83bb6fe4b116b2edb642c7 SHA-1: cc0dc6c2582ac0b74878f8e3fde29dd188989dd8 SHA-256: c2a23886183556417b1a2b0080879460a97e184e70562c97dd419e7485483246
196 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF file contains a fake CAPTCHA lure, designed to trick users into clicking malicious links. Several heuristics indicate the presence of link farms and compromised hosting, suggesting an attempt to redirect users to further malicious content. The ClamAV detection and ML classifier further support its malicious nature.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9929

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://haltia.mx/sii/ckfinder/userfiles/files/ganiligukelowukoropif.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://mtecommerce.it/public/news/file/fijosumivanivur.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://kolbiko.com/images/uploads/file/54613994815.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://polinagerz.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/esdnbo6dkn9jpud5e9iv8aoa1t/3316311288.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://nhatngudongkinh.com/upload/ckupload/files/xifos.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://gaushalango.com/uploaded_files/userfiles/files/tajuwefidaf.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://stavclearing.ru/upload/files/kolojonumigopekejamun.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://massimosusto.eu/userfiles/files/jidunafop.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://az4group.com.br/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16130319515dc5---29937795914.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://sambometal.com/dataroom/file/70854226359.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://lengthening-sldf.com/userfiles/file/rufoxovuxevajujewamilekav.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.e-oswiata.olesnica.pl/ckfinder/userfiles/files/53969170295.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ateliergermain.net/sites/default/files/file/gakotov.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://zhbiotech.com/CKEdit/upload/files/80503006978.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://scvumaichiramen.com/uploads/files/wutanixawuvetaw.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.jobibon.com/admin/userfiles/file/begedojelufi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://gdlejia.com/uploadfile/files/20210904_082333.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://classoft.ro/userfiles/file/wutolekelomuguviwiveso.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://miyisz.com/mingyi/images/userfiles/file/49475569856.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://j-club.eu/userfiles/file/21243529472.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://benrassam.com/uploads/files/88717922288.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://alismobile.co.uk/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/64dc17bf89f64801a7d1b87c89621a30/93736062662.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.moyekolodin.com/files/vogusuxaludugevawomomux.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://coolbiotech.com/upload/files/tebixas.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/skout/mBVl/~3/YTWXjIUwRh0/uplcv?utm_term=bellarine+aquatic+centre+timetablePDF 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_off000120cb.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x120CB 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_01_sfnt_off000138dd.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x138DD 19928 bytes
SHA-256: e56964076ce8b1654e3d45f01002ca90f6260000f0e1ca4cf94799f08636bcf9
font_02_sfnt_off00016e04.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x16E04 10540 bytes
SHA-256: c5ba1ea9602bbfd331db74aaec8f6ad5edf0e037668a64036a4689d096180a7a