Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 1caaad3d54033701…

MALICIOUS

PDF

85.1 KB Created: 2021-09-16 06:27:40 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-24
MD5: cbaf271ea8ad6723536cc58f59bffab8 SHA-1: cc27a7b16ad0d092994cdf85c1cbfec27ca7c9c1 SHA-256: 1caaad3d54033701df3ab2d78c8158698ef2475c8fc6510547ea9bf4f59fa09a
196 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment T1539 Steal or Harvest Credentials

This PDF file was flagged by a machine learning classifier and ClamAV as malicious. Heuristics indicate it is designed as a lure for multi-factor authentication or one-time code harvesting, consistent with credential phishing. The document contains numerous links to external sites, many of which appear to be hosted on compromised or disposable domains, suggesting a phishing infrastructure.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9974

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 http://ankurgroups.com/userfiles/file/gorutumiwuwugopirewira.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://chaukitchen.com/uploads/files/kaset.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://dreamcatcherltd.com/userfiles/file/74450823851.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://sinocelltech.com/filespath/files/20210914092404.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.jimenez-casquet.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/161409199cb8fb---nefupuma.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://pergamine.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/91737726622.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://medizator.ru/ckfinder/userfiles/files/rolavabujalawazelevisamug.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.hkha.com.hk/ckfinder/userfiles/files/62143234513.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://hladonural.ru/upload_picture/54213133587.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://obrienbuilders.com/userfiles/file/68464537116.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://wingprocess.com/customer/3/d/9/3d947ad6ce2568d98b832ccf5548371bFile/gubikumafiwexuwefotor.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.bluewhaleline.com/image/upload/File/tasakimitod.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://1sis.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/161391caca2eb2---loboxezavufijomi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.espymetcalf.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1613bf819387b3---tatupawivase.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://azinsaghf.com/cache/fck_files/file/dufelizuvenovelofit.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://baanpowertrain.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1613203b720154---16642388373.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://hotelpancharatna.com/assets/userfiles/files/tetonazituxatun.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.espaciocultivarte.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/wamuvozojufamumom.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://msdoubrava.cz/foto/images/file/72152283318.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://gz-theoutfit.com/UploadFiles/FCKeditor/20210912170857.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://abwalabamaave.com/uploads/files/19448279696.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://imagespa.mx/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1614152afd81c8---zovetopamaxiladidu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://lejuriste.ru/files/file/70427521275.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://nobleanimalsanctuary.org/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/tmp/kefasuj.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/skout/mBVl/~3/cv9VXjIrmdE/uplcv?utm_term=transfer+data+from+icloud+to+samsungPDF 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_off0000e132.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xE132 20344 bytes
SHA-256: 246dcc5c5609dc0373d3d6ecb85b1c389b38e5a690ead0c516e661ebeddd41df
font_01_sfnt_off000115a2.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x115A2 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_02_sfnt_off00012db9.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x12DB9 10884 bytes
SHA-256: 0b21ef6b08235ba5a66b73948f08dcc5af2e6d6edcb7ba867145f2dfa1e441ae