Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 e50d439746b15687…

MALICIOUS

PDF

88.6 KB Created: 2021-06-21 08:11:16 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7) First seen: 2021-10-01
MD5: ab52e7533f690645a22a844e2aed4098 SHA-1: 97f845e7fd0f31be01312c0315b9b31cc34bc092 SHA-256: e50d439746b15687b7986053f18adfcf177caf65934648f21da364a610b10b1b
196 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment T1203 Exploitation for Client Execution T1059.007 JavaScript

This PDF document was flagged as malicious by ClamAV and an ML classifier. It uses a fake-CAPTCHA lure. The file embeds a large number of external links characteristic of an SEO link farm, many hosted on compromised CMS upload directories. Specific URLs and indicators for this sample are listed in the indicators section.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9996

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://www.bocamvigliesrooms.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/8c61010d9a5896634d2ad633e5d2f548/vadibalojidabofunedo.pdf In PDF document text
    • https://sportli.co.il/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160b5f580c013a---luzakug.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.publicitymailing.ie/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609f88720c581---jatuz.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://bodwellassociates.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/1e939cf7f2c4487180bd848a1406e230/devafazakivorixukaxiwa.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://apexhealthnutrition.com/newerac2c/userfiles/file/pivis.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.zaantraining.nl/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607e50e942223---3744330238.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://borderpak.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/d8aa09a1bff77c0afbd575d6fe03b1f2/37533000141.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://baikalspring.ru/ckfinder/userfiles/files/jexetezila.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.morenoroofing.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160bfbbd4930fa---95885896989.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.analfissur.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16075d47b6eed0---95595821593.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://thewentworthco.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/v2su3aie83nlgua3as1nitesaq/lazubitazegugasulolig.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://smartcookieacademy.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160cfd08513ed8---xumudij.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://asustainable.com/global/file/4399077501.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://scbczy.cn/up_files/file/20210620_085149.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://agroadvanced.com/app/webroot/newsletters/editor/files/62270480985.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://santeh.md/img/files/xutinovumorumiwizoxarif.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.benvenutialmare.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160c92d72b54df---81159628854.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/In PDF document text
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/typedesigners.htmlIn PDF document text
    • http://www.daltonmaag.com/In PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Uplcv/~3/ngfLrbzwjls/uplcv?utm_term=free+internet+stresserPDF 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://scripts.sil.org/OFLIn PDF document text
    • http://dejavu.sourceforge.netIn PDF document text
    • http://dejavu.sourceforge.net/wiki/index.php/LicenseIn PDF document text

Extracted artifacts 4

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
font_00_sfnt_off0000fd90.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xFD90 4068 bytes
SHA-256: 78202e610571f9f187d51c316f10b02239799a07befd5abdceb14075864a7153
font_01_sfnt_off00010b51.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x10B51 11576 bytes
SHA-256: 8b319153eadf5100d2f433ae69f2e27a9c75b1efa0e45bebc475f9a1071afde3
font_02_sfnt_off000131e5.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x131E5 16116 bytes
SHA-256: 3dae81b76154e7c62b3b0d30507344c78f02ee9172d09a03fe7a9af96af9e849
font_03_sfnt_off000146c2.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x146C2 4324 bytes
SHA-256: 0d0f64e27578eb124b8bc81c7eceacdd166e22eddd95c81328e9fbd7de2a6333