Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 f0c20269678d8065…

MALICIOUS

PDF

82.3 KB Created: 2021-09-21 02:16:49 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-11-24
MD5: 24cee6e0cc08fadac3b05ab8217c291b SHA-1: f95d0258a9b219d740ea4392fba6e112dbdf91fa SHA-256: f0c20269678d8065b22ead994eb6fce1bd87f24c7fd9194e9906465c998be3bf
196 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The sample is a PDF file flagged by ML classifiers and ClamAV as malicious. It exhibits characteristics of a link farm and contains a fake CAPTCHA heuristic, indicating an attempt to deceive the user into performing an action. The embedded URLs point to various domains, some of which are associated with compromised WordPress sites, suggesting a distribution mechanism for further malicious content.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9974

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 https://smidgel.ru/uplcv?utm_term=apk+super+smash+bros+64 PDF link annotation
    • http://ahxxzx.com/userfiles/202109/file/96736191464.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://intelean.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16148f8ffa5e04---14733741023.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://phayaotechno.com/UserFiles/File/wonelowomasezazerexu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://dayou.tw/uploadpic/files/202109180220162903.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://dralituncer.net/userfiles/file/21644071872.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://horvathortho.hu/tmp/31034996449.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://plymouth-logs.co.uk/ckfinder/userfiles/files/94743865409.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://maidintown.co.uk/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/b8acb6544b54b51a680a7ebe0149989a/43936551388.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://trans-serwis.com/userfiles/file/melorewuzedulalefawilezo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://bienbao.net/uploads/files/95094503049.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://mmagame.com/userfiles/file/71874654579.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://jowinbio.com/upload/files/202109100438014104.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://unipell.com.br/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16146753eafe7e---48671506808.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.booster-p.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1612ef738325f9---fesenaledinisudusikepofe.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://dfa-finanz.de/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16145453571456---riwazemexatamebavididogin.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.karelo.com/uploads/File/51435743702.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://swancentive.com/cote_dor_import/admin/ckfinder/userfiles/files/valoxaxegulaw.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://drxzhang.com/userfiles/file/dekuparomoligogixelavere.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.a2zmedical.com.au/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16133dcfda52fe---xozomaderejiwuk.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://zhengfutz.com/v15/Upload/file/20219162225437139.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://siphouse96.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/72750f1964cf8b9b9056d58432e133ca/10360042042.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://073741256.com/uploads/files/202109070909046211.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://childconnect.com/swi/fckfiles/file/77326320353.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://badrivishal.com/media/rejurumikefazosakujed.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_off0000da68.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xDA68 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_01_sfnt_off0000f27f.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF27F 10736 bytes
SHA-256: 48d6a9289804e83d5f740e103d9b615b4ed029b2a0bc668d3a0183aa79deea8a
font_02_sfnt_off00010b0b.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x10B0B 18604 bytes
SHA-256: f4009edff930fd03e229f079c4ac62a51e4203e4c4668625252a98c5cc8495b7