Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 199ea67480a94cc9…

MALICIOUS

PDF

89.6 KB Created: 2021-07-05 04:30:43 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-09-13
MD5: 7abdabfb42923f5885907676f6c6ddbf SHA-1: 1d63d21d02971795a450aa1de5d55e52b2a99f57 SHA-256: 199ea67480a94cc97b8806deaea188c06aa081a5384d292ff64d5dccda4383c7
136 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment T1190 Exploit Public-Facing Application

This PDF document is classified as malicious by an ML model and exhibits characteristics of a credential harvesting lure, specifically targeting MFA or one-time codes. The document contains a link farm pointing to compromised WordPress upload directories, suggesting an attempt to host malicious content or redirect users to phishing sites. While no scripts were directly extracted, the PDF structure and the presence of numerous external links, many hosted on potentially compromised sites, indicate a phishing or credential theft attempt.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9942

Heuristics 6

  • 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://too.kg/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/c3cf7ec5fecdcf27783fd2db539d6e3d/guxejejebepita.pdf In PDF document text
    • https://archcosmeticstudio.com.au/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/02ea78acf894c110a57a071fb2e337c3/vosinurukuk.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://drjoecarver.com/clients/49355/File/9119966977.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://leesman.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/8aa4c7401153aa39d38c309765b0c251/94959933791.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://argentinaproduct.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/84390141454.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.victorian-manor.co.za/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a9dc363807e---norupog.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://guides2alpes.fr/uploads/file/zulaxepekezisuwijumapodel.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://chapelguild.com/images/usr/wixow.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://nuraski.pl/wsg/userfiles/vazasoxotese.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://gamletaarnhuset.no/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160ac402c29343---76013505596.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.davidcosz.de/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/04f8q51glr0kv50vgpsfeumeek/91471429853.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://krimgranit.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/d2401a967e8e7c9e78048da4eeca03c6/82493440507.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://funkydrop.shop/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/e61a4d73fd62a458869e02fdbaa2dd8f/vidanarijubuvoxavozururid.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://eastendmediation.com/customer/3/d/9/3d947ad6ce2568d98b832ccf5548371bFile/bazakizikuzilixu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.oasipizza.it/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160c4544238b4d---veduvitumajaduvigituzoman.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://enjoy.sk/editor_uploads/system/files/63832920783.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://beateromer.com/bilder/file/47462699417.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://louvre.lv/res/wysiwyg/file/32283819137.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://agrotehholding.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/52f450dcd78aa129abc3439ba0669cf0/17846591409.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://anakmeong.com/contents//files/wavutararawonuku.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://phenix-security.fr/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160945802eb0f9---23356927115.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://aftckwt.com/uploads/file/mizotonepuxunixuz.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://brune-schmuckwerk.de/ckfinder/userfiles/files/16376511739.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.blackhillsdancecentre.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160c01d5ed9543---rabuxodug.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://lifestyleufa.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/d65a6496509b5c0e980076a442607ef2/fidixarani.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Uplcv/~3/YTWXjIUwRh0/uplcv?utm_term=nine+regions+of+the+abdomen+and+their+organsPDF 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_off0000fddb.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xFDDB 16352 bytes
SHA-256: 3bede73b7495d76da1dc9f04e57b49e4ac283a78144019374514a6b1d23b3f50
font_01_sfnt_off000127db.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x127DB 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_02_sfnt_off00013ff2.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x13FF2 10872 bytes
SHA-256: 2ffe090eaa399995cc63d35e32c12f9d2170b013ec95e1a8613c99667c39a5b0