Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 26f9d228d17eccf7…

MALICIOUS

PDF

75.5 KB Created: 2021-09-18 21:53:37 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-12
MD5: 776149cc31295e40b1173b10af468e0f SHA-1: a721718f71f85ce4b5d013dd762959e079f3d6a4 SHA-256: 26f9d228d17eccf7f9b93755e94feb72b81d6baae249e757c6d13289c801a6de
196 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF file was flagged by multiple heuristics as malicious, including a ML classifier and ClamAV detection. The 'SE_MFA_LURE' heuristic indicates the document is designed to harvest credentials or abuse multi-factor authentication. Several embedded URLs point to compromised CMS uploads and disposable hosting, suggesting a phishing or credential harvesting campaign.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9827

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://ingatlanfelugyelet.hu/uploads/file/muminilajepasoni.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://www.como-grup.ro/fisiere/file/74316206209.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://mai-colle.jp/userfiles/file/94765348664.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://digireg.lu/upload/fufiv.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://uangraja.com/contents/files/43282007917.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://pabausa.org/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1613b91446c32b---95910997586.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://tortsurprise.ru/upload/redactor/files/pubevil.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://goksirkrupskimlyn.pl/img/upload/files/fuvazezoli.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://lisaarkinlaw.com/customer/3/d/9/3d947ad6ce2568d98b832ccf5548371bFile/vuruwus.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.dnevi-sekretarjev.eu/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16141cce632c10---disokuziwubutofato.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://zatoodesign.com/userfiles/files/97682325297.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://damutech.kz/upload/2021/09files/210915201114243840jtr2d.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://millinerandassoc.com/files/file/59059284692.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://geodavidepini.it/userfiles/files/risajugu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://stallion-international.com/userfiles/file/tenuzibowixujivijawovaw.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://thegioidahoacuong.com/uploads/image/files/wuwabovulezivaxenewotoxi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://airflow-skateboards.com/upload/file/85018069073.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://tuttotop.com/userfiles/files/gupenofavebedi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.pirac.org/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/8a1c01d90a0a22c3a909827358db0bbb/rapowigoviropuwaver.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://stin-verdon.fr/assets/Image/files/55033409737.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://fleseriuassociates.ro/files/file/54780472104.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://techlan.pl/files/file/50244180216.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://neodev.space/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1612fd52a76886---78031077777.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://sinhorelli.com/userfiles/file/3829343805.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://idominjazz.com/fckeditor/userfiles/image/sezeno.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://volkshilfe-vlbg.at/images/content/files/27088295544.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.gametimecatering.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1613a5c23be7d9---vegod.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://queuemanagementsystems.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1613417ce65a39---35876100154.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Uplcv/~3/BvfzZFkJO3s/uplcv?utm_term=wps+wpa+tester+pin+listPDF 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_off0000c56a.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xC56A 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_01_sfnt_off0000dd81.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xDD81 10204 bytes
SHA-256: 9ac207b14f39dbb9f92c3f1e1b85c8a151ef2e4d04e89156e1c0d78fb822681e
font_02_sfnt_off0000f48c.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF48C 16960 bytes
SHA-256: 4ca6e9e6cb73d1fc21cb9ebd5325a5b538d71e3e32c5eed87f9f28332ca5f677