Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 e7ff60373d18c032…

MALICIOUS

PDF

86.3 KB Created: 2021-07-07 03:45:10 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-09-15
MD5: c4e221f661ec0309a97ad81deda6fe1f SHA-1: 857a49470d85a9a96a401272f5e0920e23080ed2 SHA-256: e7ff60373d18c032dde9457d338004a8849953b4ddc6163c441bb4cf7b32d2d5
244 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

This PDF document exhibits multiple indicators of malicious intent, including a fake CAPTCHA lure and a link farm pointing to potentially compromised hosting. The presence of a password-protected archive lure suggests an attempt to bypass security controls. While no scripts were directly extracted, the overall structure and heuristic firings strongly indicate a phishing or malware distribution scheme.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9970

Heuristics 9

  • 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
  • Password-protected archive handoff high SE_PASSWORD_ARCHIVE_LURE
    Document gives password instructions for an archive or attachment — often used to keep payloads encrypted until after gateway scanning
  • 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 https://queure.ru/uplcv?utm_term=need+for+speed+most+wanted+2005+cd+key PDF link annotation
    • https://nasroglobal.com/userfiles/file/23864829169.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://aedwea.com/upload/foto/lejaxufi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://veronicanealhome.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/2/1607b37cd84f0b---43551673874.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://maidnheaven.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160758dc8d1639---kabavofilejijakutikivodeb.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ziepniekkalns.lv/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160bef6173db32---35299057828.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://harkakotony.hu/UserFiles/file/mebinokewidixarejolepa.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://dachastyle.com/userfiles/file/pipuvitisobivikarunariwar.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.ogblfrontaliers.fr/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/mjss9eqbqv0aakvibof78kouf5/51734133539.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://aarogyamedico.com/userfiles/file/bilesazirewalilevokes.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.unicodesystems.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/ct912cmotank55ik2fbt3a3p86/guzidarefejemanozas.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://security-m.jp/tool/images/file/fegizutexiwutirirav.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.infranetltd.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a27d99dfe63---tawepajiteza.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://averon.ca/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608fc7c18392a---tuzidugesizegoxuvem.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://calldidocta.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/bc33dad1ed6db61ca6e12dd672d608b2/revoxitiba.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://mps-india.com/userfiles/files/70225834216.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.ibadirect.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607c57b3a6de1---21218036821.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://em-mould.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/46187743492.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ajwatravel.com/wheelmarine/userfiles/file/72477680682.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.advids.co/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608bca99452d1---37547341217.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://shared401k.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/26c141ad3583b0a1fb63f3dddf0d7e9f/91712270337.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.annaleehuber.com/content_files/file/50083239004.pdfIn PDF document text
    • 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_off0000e83a.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xE83A 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_01_sfnt_off0001004c.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x1004C 18396 bytes
SHA-256: e7ac058c53e9c6a188f1cefd9f82664ef7344a046d8e539d1828a674ec75d2d0
font_02_sfnt_off0001310b.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x1310B 11288 bytes
SHA-256: adc26cd900fef208e10910c79ec18015b64386b3c68355871833a3bc3467495d