Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 d4611c1a6323bc0f…

MALICIOUS

PDF

102.0 KB Created: 2021-08-07 12:12:41 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-23
MD5: 7f4afcb809bd126e596c1f1846a20f9b SHA-1: 9a0906d5d2371a924539ea60d3577bdf9865047b SHA-256: d4611c1a6323bc0f416af7cd2872e458287d8f6ebb9713e31099732def30e940
196 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The file is identified as malicious by ML classifiers and ClamAV, and exhibits characteristics of a link farm hosted on compromised WordPress sites. The 'Fake CAPTCHA' heuristic strongly suggests the document's purpose is to deceive the user into interacting with malicious links, likely for phishing or malware distribution. The embedded URLs point to various PDF files hosted on potentially compromised domains.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9966

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 http://asesoriagarpe.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607affa328745---genuvuloxovejabupoze.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://shreejians.com/userfiles/file/51401209760.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://patc.fr/imagesfile/sopunuzewikunexi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://jfhcoaching.com/userfiles/files/65861530520.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.sacict.or.th/ckfinder/userfiles/files/dikutadaberibamuze.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.psoealora.es/ckfinder/userfiles/files/98557780583.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://bowlinggreenhsclassof66.com/clients/b/bd/bdf8ab256cd88a603fc2b95a051c5839/File/sizopemap.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.quatainvestimentos.com.br/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160f067880b357---duwogaras.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://vieclamday.com/userfiles/file/nurepakagalatilafu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://color-gateway.com/userfiles/file/32354553067.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://bokseinstituttet.dk/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160874301a9bec---23218383909.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ambulatorioveterinariocamali.com/userfiles/files/xabuwa.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://reflexlighting.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/d5a6cfbfd65e488777340aff604e8e33/fabenavi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://pensiuneavalentina.ro/app/webroot/file/jevokusuvilufarazoxifin.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://writtenmail.com/upload_images/file/fugutazozavukaliwa.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://gyorszol.hu/userfiles/file/88315563324.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://loskutova.site/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/33d635bc2c29b00696f68a892fded084/nanetuzibebejibefase.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://fence-alarm.com/userfiles/files/beniwojevulenudugikirag.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://funperm.ru/content/file/linuvodanofilumigibof.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://aspaeng.com/files/image/files/fewor.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.tonygssoulfood.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/5dfd6f86cf1545439b63b17eb85a5029/87350702965.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.webtony.com.br/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607a2b7e2f1ed---kuvulaluxu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://assignmentmart.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/dudirama.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/skout/mBVl/~3/cv9VXjIrmdE/uplcv?utm_term=madden+21+coin+glitch+ps4PDF 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_off000120f5.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x120F5 21636 bytes
SHA-256: 555e763f0762a8ecae935e03505abb0ded476d6573ac708fbc01838ac5546b73
font_01_sfnt_off0001590f.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x1590F 10936 bytes
SHA-256: 7e45ff69aaebefa4de2ae1e5dac799b351daaa762c7ab5e73e68a6e400aaf44d
font_02_sfnt_off0001723e.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x1723E 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1