Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 3b3e046e7d9bb2b9…

MALICIOUS

PDF

77.6 KB Created: 2021-09-14 00:16:46 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-16
MD5: df29cab1e91725ece7014a873ea4168a SHA-1: 0370c460d7861249688c65e879a65646c172434e SHA-256: 3b3e046e7d9bb2b9731f0084eaeee0e3585cc7be9429c4cf81416dcc3d7f8ac0
106 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment T1539 Steal Web Session Cookie

The ML classifier and the 'MFA Lure' heuristic strongly indicate a credential harvesting attempt. The PDF contains numerous embedded URLs, many of which point to potentially malicious or unknown domains, suggesting it acts as a link farm to host phishing pages. Although no scripts were explicitly extracted, the nature of the lure and the embedded URLs suggest an attempt to trick users into providing login credentials or MFA codes.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9943

Heuristics 5

  • 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
  • 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://tangiahoang.vn/Images_upload/files/26364834556.pdf In PDF document text
    • https://universitecentrale.net/uploads/FCK_files/file/75731327105.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.1000ena.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/161391e08ebbc6---sotib.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://baove247.org/upload/files/74298493083.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://studiocalcinoni.com/userfiles/files/sotogagonuvosufufovatuxur.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://khyljg.com/uploadfiles/files/37028105817.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://veterinariacomportamentale.it/userfiles/files/jatuvaveliwinipajo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://xn--jt2b56wn0ap2a.com/upload/file/202109051322441296.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://salwangurugram.com/files/11748133832.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://x04ydivan.ru/userfiles/file/91823889165.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://bebsulmare.com/userfiles/files/67129241176.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://danielstrehlau.com/userfiles/file/wopuwoxosu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://polymadeniyaglar.com/fckeditor/userfiles/file/94919796631.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://xn--oy2b9bv81anouola.com/upload/file/202109132054407858.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://fazendasaojudastadeu.net/fotosempresa/files/gerewanapanusivagonipi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://thefarmatarapahoecounty.com/userimages/4552140524.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://radis-rrl.ru/userfiles/image/jujuxupovononibunekera.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://hsiaoying.com/userfiles/file/pizujiwiniforafedijopudu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.idromeccanicasrl.com/idromeccanicasrl.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/9764214ccea28586cdbe735841df9cda/petamek.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://tktravelkorea.com/FileData/ckfinder/files/20210909_DCD7819117C49E3A.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://pactolous.hu/upload/file/nekagowaworiz.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://pradakshinam.com/fck_uploads/file/52876842166.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://imhome-listings.com/userfiles/files/fakavosu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://yuseigachi.nl/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/161399b019d8b8---77700724384.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://orvositudasbazis.eu/images/upload/file/muradikemafuvadix.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/skout/mBVl/~3/LPIa9PGmDLg/uplcv?utm_term=how+to+log+out+from+hotmailPDF 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_off0000cba4.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xCBA4 17580 bytes
SHA-256: cc68988a38296939ba898b89e847791bb0e71622534714f4de924df49b851a04
font_01_sfnt_off0000f8ea.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF8EA 10432 bytes
SHA-256: b0be2456d91ecd786ea4a436e5aeaad23ce27003ebbbe05e2b378b9f1d4055c8
font_02_sfnt_off00011092.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x11092 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1