Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 3c973ce16fa07ef2…

MALICIOUS

PDF

92.9 KB Created: 2021-07-13 11:52:18 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-09-14
MD5: f2679a4353bb9efb5843ba7bbfc9e67a SHA-1: 799c55ff72baec0b3f13886af875c1fcac3e44b1 SHA-256: 3c973ce16fa07ef2d11f817a55db74ee789c4604707e8a18121f2e02b3fca25d
196 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

This PDF file was detected as malicious by ClamAV and an ML classifier, indicating a high likelihood of malicious intent. The heuristic 'SE_MFA_LURE' strongly suggests the document is designed to harvest credentials or abuse multi-factor authentication. While no scripts were explicitly extracted, the PDF structure and numerous embedded URLs pointing to compromised CMS uploads and disposable hosting are consistent with phishing or credential harvesting campaigns.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9822

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 http://panziofabian.hu/fck_kepek/10372411093.pdf In PDF document text
    • https://unitedcardsolutions.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a88a4ec4c30---wonokotasewuxux.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://aguiapromocional.com.br/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16099480de2074---gefipu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://performanceltg.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/05f2e4de8eb24423e486f7cf168a6850/11743813301.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://formapolis.it/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/322e6ab786065e26fc005802cc1b322c/16177048603.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://leicht-spb.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/fb01b5b3dc44a3766d66550441ce3a8b/niperimamibolagerel.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://russkiivopros.com/images/FCKeditor/file/rukejowufukafu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://casier-a-bouteilles.com/file/14684891806.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.tenniscanberra.com.au/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607bbd395eec5---54226502674.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://chunmianxian.com/upfolder/e/files/20210623012920.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://bobecoingatlan.com/uploads/editor/file/59802502698.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://az4group.com.br/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608595b8cc1d9---59102337134.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://begemot-rus.com/uploadfiles/file/2021050411150473499.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://artenika.pl/fck/file/widusulajaben.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://abril.pe/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/05dot0fhv3nus7un2repuvnlu5/kumojiw.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://sugarfree-gelato.com/upload/file/jagamonufoselubadomenanof.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://magicdiscoradio.hu/userfiles/file/3970406794.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.ksmt.edu.np/assets/ckfinder/userfiles/files/85468552668.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://eros-arena-reutlingen.de/eros/userfiles/file/dojupezitutomuvidajej.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.kindytennis.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160c1ec961362e---jobeputokuxidife.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://lncxjzxxw.com/upload_fck/file/2021-6-24/20210624033104101496.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://nuestratierrapremios.com/campannas/file/gufalopokexogokujebufuxu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://cuatudongsaigon.vn/uploads/files/kiwojaf.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://fablab808.com/nbloom/fckuploads/file/15004119000.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.saraviation.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160968103a4a97---94490729433.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://zlato-eu.sk/upload/files/50198192714.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://topinsolventa.ro/userfiles/file/84411884316.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Uplcv/~3/3vuEKuznOb8/uplcv?utm_term=sysinfotools+pdf+recoveryPDF 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_off00010603.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x10603 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_01_sfnt_off00011e15.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x11E15 17548 bytes
SHA-256: c47e953cdb91f367992a5aeb7093d373b8f4020d222d11f5632e62e8492d7257
font_02_sfnt_off00014bf0.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x14BF0 10704 bytes
SHA-256: 88dda8d08981888dd206c82b2ce3a07ce337c59a8e27c5e792180e09f3a5fa14