Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 fc52ad145504bfdc…

MALICIOUS

PDF

85.9 KB Created: 2021-09-07 18:48:58 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-05
MD5: 2aac32a3778e298037a56a5700054f6f SHA-1: abfb0b70d21e6604d9224aaf3a2701f77265d218 SHA-256: fc52ad145504bfdc58d8380cfd5743f748a5fe91a62f09fb8e0683db7ad3978b
196 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

The PDF file was flagged by a machine learning classifier and ClamAV as malicious, specifically as a phishing trojan. The heuristic 'SE_FAKE_CAPTCHA' indicates the document presents a fake CAPTCHA or human verification prompt to the user. This is likely intended to trick the user into downloading a secondary payload from one of the numerous embedded URLs, many of which point to compromised CMS upload directories or disposable hosting.

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 http://ancheng-medical.com/uploadfile/files/wegexotuvemam.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://la-roofers.co.uk/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1612b13e8b4ff9---pilulanivurojo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://project-lovcen.me/userfiles/file/xafow.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.temsilcisitesi.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a8feab8bc9d---75141954114.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://uniquehotelsolutions.com/files/others/rojejere.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://creationart.hu/files/file/guxivilixetuwafevuzami.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://schs1968.com/clients/861610/File/gofunobu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://kondicionery-vidnoe.ru/upload_picture/file/buteranumowavex.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://cheapneasytrafficschool.com/CheapNEasyTrafficSchool/pa/trainstation/uploads/image/file/61994195515.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://guides2alpes.fr/uploads/file/84762628863.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://neoneophytou.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/53397245177.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://bazatalty.pl/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/d38cf9f013fcf776155ba4055f8d8ff9/fawovuwebiravimub.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://morethancleaningservices.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/5154d20ebcc50a79bff1411d92c29a43/61786786032.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://acm-medicali.it/userfiles/files/barotovewuxewijetuve.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://hkbroadwin.com/userfiles/nesanejufaxefixejanu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.rydalmereprestige.com.au/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/69qtiqa42rgt4bujskdt06n6mi/64068883769.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://hochrainer-elsner.at/upload/files/baleruvodaxadipimalejenu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://nghieuphong.com/upload/files/68472887641.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://refundsrefunds.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160c0cc3456f58---77009642218.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.penyembuhanholistikreiki.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1612f2d984ecaa---37445210202.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://zadonskiy.ru/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16084c2973b0c5---venipejozositapoxup.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://payassistinc.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16099a9f174709---60181433609.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://sns-russia.ru/userfiles/file/viripodonerujel.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.kinoimaging.nl/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607aa2abb660b---defoguxojejifunexidanabex.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/1eyvgo/aqOO/~3/fzgW7-mxBc0/uplcv?utm_term=hospital+feasibility+and+business+plan+study+pdfPDF link annotation
    • http://kioskcondoweb.wpengine.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1606d1f6aacfee---72341535832.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_off0000ed90.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xED90 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_01_sfnt_off000105a2.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x105A2 16788 bytes
SHA-256: 1addbef0e624771e94897584daef482cd6bf8b968f003367802b2d14546bf0f0
font_02_sfnt_off000130f6.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x130F6 10736 bytes
SHA-256: 5c97bfaf85605e795dba5162057a7621673856bcc2a80831e07aa7d4e4f87683