Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 c55bb53e55d88183…

MALICIOUS

PDF

82.5 KB Created: 2021-09-07 08:53:29 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-12
MD5: 6f96a76ec07b2573ea2ff296dcad779a SHA-1: 86e838d1b66612533cd0ccc8a8c644f4d565a03b SHA-256: c55bb53e55d881833c610eb991c5b8035c5c3e65ffe0dcca344457ab34205598
204 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

This PDF document was flagged by ClamAV as a phishing trojan and exhibits characteristics of a fake CAPTCHA lure. It contains numerous links to potentially compromised WordPress sites, suggesting an attempt to redirect users to malicious content or downloads. While no scripts were directly extracted, the presence of embedded URLs and the fake CAPTCHA strongly indicate a phishing or social engineering attack.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9960

Heuristics 8

  • 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.
  • Visual download / call-to-action button lure low SE_DOWNLOAD_BUTTON
    Document contains a call-to-action phrase ('Click here to download', 'Download Now', etc.) — low-signal unless other findings point to a malicious workflow
  • 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://sinara.org.br/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609a1c0480f95---66627139642.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://nowyhotelik.pl/userfiles/file/15888119716.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://gorisum.net/fckeditor/upload_file/file/gojelulitomanuvapinaxid.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://spazmedia.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16079875ef3cc5---430389084.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://smartmedicaleg.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160abbbb3e6177---37369054002.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://iideree.org/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16072dc1886e09---rosewo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://asiquim.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/86471720654.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.shipsupply.co.mz/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16087156591226---21778088432.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://darienhigh69.com/clients/866565/File/givasaferanepa.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://cn-junsheng.com/upload/file///2021528175811690.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://plswa.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/2b781e5adec38395f9af4e3bb7c48bc0/lonukesikomirexit.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://theemperorsoldclothes.co.uk/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/8agf216uut8e5npomfbnvvn4ed/82370456148.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://mymovingestimate.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/7c3cd9c7c0b7c280fc754cc33af1eadd/34330995837.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://adanateknikservis.web.tr/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608b80f7101b5---77898155124.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://kingnature.ru/files/files/libifo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.bestlifepolicy.co.uk/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608e17f0f0624---81434722503.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://anhuishangbiao.com/upload_fck/file/2021-6-24/20210624005633121297.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://al-farh-iq.com/upload/userfiles/file/dativanem.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.1000ena.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160c59423b5ffe---27998173274.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://hayatteknoloji.com/webimage/file/ropesenuli.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://thinkglobalcompliance.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/vokagewowekaka.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://isystemlab.com/admin/ckfinder/userfiles/files/soburetagejado.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://manufim.co.il/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608c709ced40c---nosujon.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/1eyvgo/aqOO/~3/BvfzZFkJO3s/uplcv?utm_term=msba+maryland+lawyers+manualPDF 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_off0000dcea.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xDCEA 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_01_sfnt_off0000f4fc.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF4FC 18044 bytes
SHA-256: 39bc8c04c1c5f73dcd6ff59245ac1784c06a0e57204fe6628202475dc532e97c
font_02_sfnt_off0001246f.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x1246F 10532 bytes
SHA-256: 338506a0e21093d2edb952e83d639862e4cd29d14b8ff116264a9b74fdc3b5d3