Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 3b8181cd97ad1403…

MALICIOUS

PDF

82.2 KB Created: 2021-09-13 18:46:47 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-11-24
MD5: 137a213c9eb09b5a199d3b19d5d92b3f SHA-1: 04dd6f2c8e6b946f4511016b26e9f457c2c3eeeb SHA-256: 3b8181cd97ad1403511e3d95355b1cfb299e3152126b2ffd60a3ac979035d8a2
174 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment T1059.007 JavaScript T1539 Steal or Forge Credentials

The sample is a PDF document flagged by multiple heuristics, including ML classification and ClamAV, as malicious. The 'SE_MFA_LURE' heuristic indicates the document is designed to harvest credentials or session tokens by tricking the user into approving a one-time code or MFA prompt. While no scripts were explicitly extracted, the 'PDF_JS' heuristic suggests embedded JavaScript may be involved in the redirection or phishing mechanism. The presence of numerous external URIs, many pointing to potentially disposable domains, further supports a phishing campaign.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9981

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
  • 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.
  • Embedded JS stream low PDF_JS
    PDF references a /JS stream. Generic JavaScript is common in benign forms; specific dangerous APIs are scored by separate rules.
  • 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://abdon.madteam.net/ckfinder/userfiles/files/70064255009.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://www.smpnuenen.nl/images/files/kesagexowelogerexax.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://a2designbg.com/userfiles/file/26637858880.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://trade.inter-ural.ru/ckfinder/userfiles/files/85686164538.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://urbanshapes.in/userfiles/file/22628493177.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://gadesign52.com/uploads/files/202109020206253010.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.hon-ro.hu/userfiles/files/zuveniwavofekikijogibuv.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://archbot.pl/files/file/59916118651.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://vcelari.naceradec.cz/includes/ckfinder/userfiles/files/zodiz.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://gok-maciejowice.pl/js/ckfinder/userfiles/files/75220267837.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.audifonosdoshoydos.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1613999e7f2db9---mozunefov.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://taemyung.com/data/upload/file/nolopujaxu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://pastoret.it/userfiles/files/6445200050.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://salondumariagededijon.com/userfiles/file/13398753755.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://dagmar-e.de/userfiles/file/53296965620.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://h16hr15k-h19hr37urn.com/contents/files/xukuxifixopalebijogon.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://hbisan.com/userfiles/file/xipawuk.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.bouwenaaneensterkwerkgeversmerk.nl/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1613947556dd85---5453549653.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://yuanhebiotech.com/upload/files/sejoxufawimaxudagafona.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://krantiservice.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/4776968889.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://vietnaminsight.biz/ckfinder/userfiles/files/felitozofixexixo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.siposferenc.hu/html/34813265215.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Uplcv/~3/YTWXjIUwRh0/uplcv?utm_term=apple+vs+android+compare+and+contrastPDF 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_off0000dc13.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xDC13 10720 bytes
SHA-256: fdd9b5fc44c989655e7639262f04d94bbb5824485d7a60bb690464b503ebbdef
font_01_sfnt_off0000f4c2.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF4C2 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_02_sfnt_off00010cd4.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x10CD4 17944 bytes
SHA-256: d1ce08b287d3d147918e7e585d76448ffcdef45d6e2b2164c4cb2d7e058ea145