Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 ea77a65c38937ce3…

MALICIOUS

PDF

73.2 KB Created: 2021-06-26 12:09:19 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3)
MD5: 60c213a491b9604306f958886480e164 SHA-1: 079414859910342e7658617408a1583980824620 SHA-256: ea77a65c38937ce37321a9c4e94a46f697076fb789f920baf1199ef0604d7bd1
196 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

This PDF document was flagged by multiple heuristics, including a machine learning classifier and ClamAV, indicating malicious intent. The presence of a fake CAPTCHA or human verification prompt suggests an attempt to deceive the user into performing an action that could lead to further compromise. The document also contains numerous links to external sites, many hosted on compromised or disposable infrastructure, which likely serve as part of a phishing or malware distribution scheme.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9971

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://www.puhito.hu/uploads/8573295162.pdf
    • http://www.microsinusectomi.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16078d35bdd589---80807090963.pdf
    • http://bagumul.com/file_upload/spaw_upload/file/20210507072115.pdf
    • http://amon-syotengai.com/userfiles/file/67388007803.pdf
    • https://kfz-gutachter-oliver-schiller.de/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607d18d47a9b2---wobero.pdf
    • https://atlanthealth.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/955a1194bbad8a218666a1d77870a2f6/74357819875.pdf
    • https://alate.org/admin/fckeditor/editorfile/pidumazokaviwipewegodisi.pdf
    • http://escolacaritas.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a86303c22d9---zalax.pdf
    • https://ptogel2.com/contents//files/tarelofumapasorutulu.pdf
    • http://austria-ex.com/images/blog//file/51233250696.pdf
    • https://traonguoc.vn/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/270ddpqv3fn5m6erh055v9l4e2/degewop.pdf
    • http://dongphuctqueen.com/upload/files/18155539223.pdf
    • http://ip-golubev.ru/ckfinder/userfiles/files/tosemokaxipetagepodosod.pdf
    • https://stiff.pl/ckfinder/userfiles/files/rumivafezatol.pdf
    • http://sinara.org.br/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a322f3120ed---wumopirixefedovijaguzima.pdf
    • https://grafitpoint.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/c672632d14114cb9caeef90f2f4ed52a/45691268104.pdf
    • http://gapoom.com/upload/fckeditor/file/36715652802.pdf
    • https://refundsrefunds.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608c0081afc9a---pugividafimos.pdf
    • http://call.ae/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160915de343531---xivonipokaxadinuwe.pdf
    • https://www.kngroup.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160982506a198b---muvikubezebebagutazep.pdf
    • http://wittlich-luexem.de/userfiles/file/vigeruxad.pdf
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/skout/mBVl/~3/BvfzZFkJO3s/uplcv?utm_term=our+lady+of+the+fields
    • http://www.w3.org/1999/02/22-rdf-syntax-ns#
    • http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/
    • http://ns.adobe.com/pdf/1.3/
    • http://ns.adobe.com/xap/1.0/
    • http://ns.adobe.com/xap/1.0/mm/
    • http://ns.adobe.com/xap/1.0/rights/
    • http://dejavu.sourceforge.net
    • http://dejavu.sourceforge.net/wiki/index.php/License

Extracted artifacts 3

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
font_00_sfnt_off0000bd55.bin
bbee432f1fa1e3cd1341df822f76903567b4c3f1a58595e2e4d73f3ecc9bb74d
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xBD55 10588 bytes
font_01_sfnt_off0000d5ab.bin
0266bad3bdbe688a6f7b8e58a75535f801b20b8014d48874850393538eab1e0e
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xD5AB 16244 bytes
font_02_sfnt_off0000ffeb.bin
9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xFFEB 16792 bytes