Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 1f5dbb5886bcf963…

MALICIOUS

PDF

100.0 KB Created: 2021-07-25 05:06:15 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-04
MD5: b16e7db96e282e0165ba8bad39a69a37 SHA-1: a6061cde0bb5a57b002b40f39af8c57d1de76f85 SHA-256: 1f5dbb5886bcf96305dfed92768323052ecbcb1706ff2534c182c318a428c6ce
196 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

This PDF document was flagged as malicious by ClamAV and an ML classifier. It uses an MFA/2FA-themed lure. The file embeds a large number of external links characteristic of an SEO link farm, many hosted on compromised CMS upload directories. Specific URLs and indicators for this sample are listed in the indicators section.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9910

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://www.asslar.de/downloads/78168005762.pdf In PDF document text
    • https://alice-immo.com/userfiles/file/rarovijemibelenema.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ddservice-bmw.pl/userfiles/file/9118587548.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://hopkinshigh1961.com/clients/878968/File/xavulovijijewuzokatez.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.cuerpomenteyespiritu.es/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16094b7798e0e5---godix.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://xn--nmqu14inmf.com/upload/files/zufedubiji.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://aaaexpressac.com/userfiles/file/pamafexababadumujiliweko.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://aartipalette.com/userfiles/file/72357740148.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://agro-partner.com/Image/files/79703558051.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.pennlighting.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/3f2886e17c6b33ba025c76b756be4846/19110717678.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://scissortailfarms.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16086fefe83ff3---30355653050.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://overtonnation.com/clients/f/f9/f97855507a39dfa58978186db9bff07a/File/kavitofobumenajulumup.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://espiber.cl/images/uploadedimages/file/xudibegilebu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.rolstoellift.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a71a32e6354---jomaworipowita.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://villa-carlshorst.de/sites/default/files/file/92089793840.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://globalclassic.org/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/7cprul97osp97m5pbhhpmbiqco/77513942366.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://jshtextile.com/UserFiles/file///pixid.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.lentilles-progressives.fr/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609b0a91d96f9---21277007514.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://arch-teh.com/pic/userfile/kulexivojef.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://nagymester.com/userfiles/file/gimusurogedulowe.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://tskrea.com/userfiles/file/ropufo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ecodiagnost.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/nokogew.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.carolglassman.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608b2b3a00496---29837790714.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://phpirateboosters.com/clients/867602/File/29916694541.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Uplcv/~3/6naE_Nh8_CY/uplcv?utm_term=how+to+book+an+uber+in+advance+australiaPDF 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 4

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
stream_007_off000125e2.bin decompressed-pdf-stream PDF FlateDecoded stream at offset 0x125E2 20516 bytes
SHA-256: fe91dbbe2af07ff92481848d7f7e5aac25a6c06f5a81dd422bffe1ddcd4ca8ca
font_00_sfnt_off00010dd0.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x10DD0 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_02_sfnt_off00015b63.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x15B63 2928 bytes
SHA-256: 4ccea4d7d79b4a8d3c91bd63ac09c52b369faa04e89ea1b341550578f7c5f7a4
font_03_sfnt_off00016759.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x16759 10836 bytes
SHA-256: 5e84500a56763b275ba5abe2c6c0c16deffa080d18da78c366e92bcb0c96ed02