Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 0769579e448838e7…

MALICIOUS

PDF

101.5 KB Created: 2021-07-30 07:29:47 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-05
MD5: 98c7e8ce8b54bb10f4a7237215ba1cac SHA-1: 24b2774c6b214e13a89ea3f351f72b3044e067b3 SHA-256: 0769579e448838e78d2abde6edc32b30aa1dfe1e6b09a16391cb39f90eb36715
196 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment T1539 Steal Application Data

The sample is a PDF document flagged by ML classifiers and ClamAV as malicious. Heuristics indicate it functions as a link farm, pointing to multiple compromised WordPress sites and disposable hosting domains, likely to obscure the ultimate phishing destination. The 'SE_MFA_LURE' heuristic strongly suggests the document's purpose is to trick users into providing credentials or MFA codes, consistent with credential harvesting.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9970

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
  • MFA / one-time-code harvesting lure high SE_MFA_LURE
    Document asks for a one-time code, authenticator approval, or MFA confirmation — consistent with credential phishing kits that steal session tokens or abuse multi-factor authentication
  • 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://shining4u.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/bea081800ecdded327bb4a808686cc1a/60356097494.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://vivaibonomo.it/userfiles/files/nigixedatudowedil.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://digireg.nu/upload/23914393357.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://botosani.ro/img/uploads/file/55781265603.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://quatcongnghieput.com/uploads/files/59444882236.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://coalcreekcentenary.com/clients/5/52/52f735e63eff8706e1a2a73a20aef632/File/51437977001.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ventilatoryzlin.cz/images/file/rerox.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://peusch.lu/userfiles/files/20989258100.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://aliancegroup.su/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160de60d20054b---42297882238.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://scpt.it/userfiles/files/temufenijizodebodix.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://livingcircles.ch/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16086b385a1b3e---zusepixetofigojipe.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://fusen-es.info/yamituki-n/uploads/files/69455938021.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://zemiigori.com/uploads/file/7751254898.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://mko-yug.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/d9ed7bd998d5265b6a59f80be3ff9197/38483857473.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://nepalaviationmuseum.com/userfiles/files/zewatig.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://sgdivorcelawyers.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/5389359002b9474ea4f0ed7a36b82869/jiwefikezud.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://festivaldeliteraturadepereira.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160c8e9c57204e---55898317733.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://aldea.work/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/5a25730ed93ced009214c2eeaee857ce/2250702998.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://wsbtitan.com/images/file/46757931580.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://graffitipaintstudio.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/9a69b89f8f61cf6b5ee0d5bcf872a2d4/14168707394.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://coffeetuanvang.com/Images_upload/files/zadutedodijafi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.maderas-navarro.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/69047641330.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://vralumni.com/clients/7/71/71e0d721b250bdad3664bf54e70089ab/File/tizotopunagigujegemofax.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.rogierstoel.nl/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/eudgn1r6bfinltmk2u1n5eb50n/lutelimewizogobamega.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://moma-restaurant.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1610358bcbbe29---82031619091.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/1eyvgo/aqOO/~3/Om9ozkHLxGw/uplcv?utm_term=how+to+fill+bpsc+online+application+formPDF 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://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_off0001299d.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x1299D 10860 bytes
SHA-256: f78fbc9ebf612112f0b1f8f60b3f90f13c96a951936a21bf6838dc45e86136a4
font_01_sfnt_off00014277.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x14277 16964 bytes
SHA-256: 6635b1d212c76779d2e39992fc42b9319224d1e27a49aecb235f79ed29823b55
font_02_sfnt_off00016eb1.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x16EB1 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1