Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 cd6732f0a7212bd2…

MALICIOUS

PDF

75.0 KB Created: 2021-07-21 00:27:16 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-09-14
MD5: 1e85e8e960420460d7e65e7b05d2f88f SHA-1: 17fcf13131733cdecb4ce7c9c524d94c4d545115 SHA-256: cd6732f0a7212bd29d909926583b496b41523e12d3baadf3193e67f5393ce971
196 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

The PDF file exhibits characteristics of a phishing lure, specifically by presenting a fake CAPTCHA to deceive the user. It contains numerous links, many pointing to compromised WordPress upload directories, suggesting an attempt to host or distribute malicious content. The ML classifier and ClamAV detection strongly indicate malicious intent.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9963

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://sarahscupcakery.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160c9fad58b452---78352701721.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://blog.crowdly.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609fd4f15635e---92129559001.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://security-m.jp/tool/images/file/lobadaloxixozadasiji.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://afriqueitnews.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/06dfc17800712065c4807a6e75a4760b/82934835591.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://sztarmedia.hu/_user/file/gupaxelibagumozamu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://accessiblevehicleservices.com/userfiles/file/72110098524.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://candientushinko.com/images/file/78562529225.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://techielingo.com/fck_uploads/files/39650726387.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://hrmconsulting.biz/upload/files/voxavefi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.melloecastro.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16076bdd5cdf4a---31122853225.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://wagnerpc.com/userfiles/files/lakavavilo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://qualitylightsolutions.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/2a9abe577c57a37058188f71f14b136e/31566663257.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://protechlighting.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/83a002c594f7c55f5cb079fa88d9ad2d/68955770840.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://mollis.rs//files/79598799457.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.rlktechniek.nl/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160f15ee2dcd06---webiket.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ricarda-allegra.de/userfiles/file/nujuzekusakexaz.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://siphouse96.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/e43abd7c6b52704dcf18f5b8f42ab646/todopolifesotujovo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.sunarpazarlama.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/9ko2915ir2gh081dg52dtj2mu4/81756511385.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cffcommunications.nl/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1/16096c7f199867---43822558915.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://savitapiti.org/ckfinder/userfiles/files/65904654155.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://tecsun-moscow.ru/docs/file/63258361672.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.sindafaz.com.br/admin/editor/ckfinder/userfiles/files/kupefibojawedi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Uplcv/~3/YTWXjIUwRh0/uplcv?utm_term=ge+hack+free+firePDF 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_off0000c440.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xC440 17088 bytes
SHA-256: e1d49cc791046e46b694d07d1c8f9e8f2d00227e45a4b77da44628981d05fdc3
font_01_sfnt_off0000f0a5.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF0A5 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_02_sfnt_off000108bc.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x108BC 10028 bytes
SHA-256: 6290dd0ff767aec1037e8b11b1b85779d73967d65eb3752c9a21c679c60d01ca