Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 3ba7401d278d64d1…

MALICIOUS

PDF

68.9 KB Created: 2021-06-08 10:26:24 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7) First seen: 2021-10-02
MD5: 5bc49e79e2eca85595d8808843ac0079 SHA-1: f9d88a9fd1993cbdc977420387c944f801a94b29 SHA-256: 3ba7401d278d64d162cb6badd048f314bc38529a7bd5a28c4869c419187f262e
196 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment T1059.007 JavaScript

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 0.9998

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://chcial.ru/uplcv?utm_term=amc+security+pro+license+key PDF link annotation
    • http://thm-holding.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/9583ff73d11d65fde2f46d94f5b864d3/kevaperivegodalozafebupa.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.lightingsolutionsal.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/881a6e9de650738648b0dccd650b7e50/4405277931.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://gf-location.fr/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160b020cc4926c---91855399342.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://skrabl.pl/www/rpbd/fck/file/redabaxewe.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://cherryontop.pl/upload/fotki/file/55243455368.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ecoretras.com/file/tirezazivafewavo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://broadgatecapital.com/userfiles/file/pomijasuvajajipetubope.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ziepniekkalns.lv/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16073618585e94---42271757660.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.rkcomdesignservices.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160729467e2596---16819981709.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://kemenyseprosiklos.hu/upload/file/47853768794.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://aplus.to/userfiles/file/bigubizeva.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.physioaktivkramer.de/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1606f594a6f856---10765817599.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.nosolodespedidas.es/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160781985c5df9---difamomexoru.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.skupp.pl/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16076618d62ffe---fapuzigomisikijuz.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/In PDF document text
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/typedesigners.htmlIn PDF document text
    • 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://scripts.sil.org/OFLIn PDF document text

Extracted artifacts 2

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
font_00_sfnt_off0000d168.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xD168 5024 bytes
SHA-256: 066bbfb55fe299f6366d65c2eed39ffa427d5bd7b038e872a9001b0fbc461a09
font_01_sfnt_off0000e27a.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xE27A 10736 bytes
SHA-256: 89dfac3f66a3f5f732df25edf59886d6922e39c6288d5da28a280a8747197d45

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