Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 cc58b54f47ad06ff…

MALICIOUS

PDF

117.9 KB Created: 2021-08-09 02:47:22 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-16
MD5: ee30763852b6480d440f97e673a25f57 SHA-1: 8013fc19600c7a00a7380934ef68ac2fa2dfd90d SHA-256: cc58b54f47ad06ff21326800aaf858c015fc2e6df8e3568c4c62074c367ebf96
196 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

The PDF document contains a fake CAPTCHA, a common lure to trick users into clicking malicious links. Several heuristics indicate the presence of link farms hosted on compromised or disposable domains, suggesting an attempt to redirect users to malicious content. The ClamAV detection and ML classifier further support the malicious nature of this PDF.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9967

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 https://www.tai.gr/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160b284be5195c---fajetifiladiranarozu.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://www.olympussverige.se/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/ig3u5lsj4t9to67mlav2sjfkib/25992178915.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.theflightfest.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16081e72c561d2---fibijawifapivepugoxake.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://mps-india.com/userfiles/files/48413866321.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://akproauto.com/nbloom/fckuploads/file/rurevosasixidon.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://engravestone.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607bb3e01c3bc---nexemowibus.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://homini.eu/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607b05c23f3d6---turopexivimebixo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.meditech.cz/ckfinder/userfiles/files/juriv.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://planet-for-events.de/userfiles/file/femowazedalupajivige.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://magicfood-cn.com/files/20210626124805.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://simonhoirup.dk/userfiles/file/vakesezedubexavabojuj.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://english-island.pl/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/othartper7i55rir0uokahjij3/kaxutoruladetaso.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://christianboudreau.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160ac46f79281b---65363917744.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://thai-apsproducts.com/file_media/file_image/file/bomutagofozerof.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.advokat.com/app/webroot/img/fck/file/nujibigulasiw.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://postscriptproductions.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160aaa78390bd9---24383967492.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://dunaweb.co/bg_image/files/26207452432.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://btegypt.com/file/99196397387.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://praconsulgroup.ru/pict/file/65925260551.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://brmhn.com/userfiles/file/20210620224329_sh27e7.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.vpn-solutions.com.pe/ckfinder/userfiles/files/nobajemutagerorug.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://agrachoff.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/4a9d13299af15ce255ba431fd2cfbe4d/89561114091.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://milkexim.ru/imgeditor/file/buziguvikep.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://opalsolar.com.au/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160775f474ac6b---99297083585.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://whitelightdesign.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/344dd440c379a7db616380fb385670d6/3758672311.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Uplcv/~3/Om9ozkHLxGw/uplcv?utm_term=joy+launcher+alcatel+no+respondePDF 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_off00016506.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x16506 10724 bytes
SHA-256: f174c02b4db546e03c9afea1bb246a5481f92dc9213cbc423f8bf90c58282d54
font_01_sfnt_off00017db5.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x17DB5 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_02_sfnt_off000195c7.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x195C7 19488 bytes
SHA-256: 786fe3efdcd576e8cda0d9270335e85becb5dc7f00eb330c1cc300c61ad8fa9b