Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 2d64bcfafb992d43…

MALICIOUS

PDF

81.6 KB Created: 2021-09-21 00:21:16 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3)
MD5: 8380b8cb40263c33f4af45c2198f3475 SHA-1: 6e7a1700c957f0fb715e70a1294bde15f8cea8f8 SHA-256: 2d64bcfafb992d438535245b74985810616d2761e0d43edddeb548ea64520f81
276 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment T1204.001 User Execution: Malicious Link T1059.007 JavaScript

The PDF contains multiple heuristics indicating it's a phishing lure, specifically a fake CAPTCHA and an MFA harvesting prompt. It also functions as a link farm, directing users to various domains, including compromised WordPress sites. The embedded URLs and the overall structure suggest an attempt to trick users into providing credentials or MFA approvals, likely leading to account compromise.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9960

Heuristics 9

  • ClamAV: Pdf.Phishing.Trojan-d2528dad23a95d95-d2528dad23a95d95-10044376-0 critical CLAMAV_DETECTION
    ClamAV detected this file as malware: Pdf.Phishing.Trojan-d2528dad23a95d95-d2528dad23a95d95-10044376-0
  • Fake CAPTCHA / human verification prompt high SE_FAKE_CAPTCHA
    Document displays a fake CAPTCHA or human-verification prompt — used to trick users into running commands or pressing keyboard shortcuts
  • Password-protected archive handoff high SE_PASSWORD_ARCHIVE_LURE
    Document gives password instructions for an archive or attachment — often used to keep payloads encrypted until after gateway scanning
  • 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://allytemp.ru/uplcv?utm_term=hotmail+sign+in+in
    • https://reclamesticker.nl/images/uploads/file/
    • https://binarbaid.com/public_html/userfiles/file/bisomamupiwuxolekivadebo.pdf
    • http://bckbytow.naszbip.pl/img/upload/files/18005852188.pdf
    • http://www.musicboxpiano.com/contentfiles/49569519327.pdf
    • https://creativesilhouettes.ca/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1612fcf6f2b7b5---1495164945.pdf
    • http://www.mab-solutions.fr/upload/file/gekorofuwafepu.pdf
    • http://historico.uts.edu.co/portal/app/ckfinder/userfiles/files/4370030828.pdf
    • http://hermandadperdon.es/userfiles/file/36381920224.pdf
    • http://epwuae.com/userfiles/file/biligajefafosala.pdf
    • http://paintingservicesonline.ca/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/161464c7aeb9f7---vezevazelulexisiforisewu.pdf
    • https://camelcarpet.org/d/files/78350177999.pdf
    • http://www.peplex.it/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1613b552db06d4---24437413300.pdf
    • https://vibangthuaphatlai.net/uploads/files/79412165153.pdf
    • https://sindonis.com/userfiles/file/38908602516.pdf
    • http://fishingas.com/userfiles/file/80463770744.pdf
    • https://ebus.myskoolapp.com/FCKeditor/FCKimgUpload/file/xakuvud.pdf
    • http://k2plusinterior.com/userfiles/rabirijobe.pdf
    • https://dianthusindustrial.com/resimler/files/29238296905.pdf
    • https://www.mediawerf.nl/bundles/store24backoffice/ckfinder/userfiles/files/38273860496.pdf
    • http://nppgursaraijhansi.in/ckfinder/userfiles/files/32459414049.pdf
    • http://www.look4job.gr/images/_user_na/file/sijulutokovafipaderom.pdf
    • http://coimbra.hu/uploads/ckfinder/userfiles/files/rapadejizodebiwamiwuguv.pdf
    • http://epmachine.ru/d/files/gutizoxoxajugubit.pdf
    • http://www.w3.org/1999/02/22-rdf-syntax-ns#
    • http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/
    • http://ns.adobe.com/pdf/1.3/
    • http://ns.adobe.com/xap/1.0/
    • http://ns.adobe.com/xap/1.0/mm/
    • http://ns.adobe.com/xap/1.0/rights/
    • http://dejavu.sourceforge.net
    • http://dejavu.sourceforge.net/wiki/index.php/License

Extracted artifacts 3

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
font_00_sfnt_off0000dace.bin
7018220341a98bc7f641ab9ec2b887f30cd44707517b39a518fc46a221a50c8b
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xDACE 18764 bytes
font_01_sfnt_off00010a8b.bin
1571c08e7ef3810cc51fe048942a2b3619deb5d9a83280be4950a93a6f9a7112
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x10A8B 10212 bytes
font_02_sfnt_off0001215b.bin
9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x1215B 16792 bytes