Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 3df7bddc3adceb88…

MALICIOUS

PDF

82.1 KB Created: 2021-09-06 12:35:42 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-12
MD5: 630870a396df22792ad1a692a1be7f5c SHA-1: ea42a71f5f357af11fcb9680d30e490a0bdb3fbc SHA-256: 3df7bddc3adceb88f301f01e4938cdf934d5b913a44bc37766a8edf8e2d3323e
196 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment T1566.002 Spearphishing Link

The sample is identified as malicious by ML classifiers and ClamAV, exhibiting characteristics of a credential harvesting lure. It presents a fake MFA or one-time code confirmation page to trick users into divulging sensitive information. The document contains numerous links to external PDF files hosted on compromised or disposable domains, suggesting a phishing campaign.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9977

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://www.northwoodmedical.ca/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/0m5g5fgj21mif4t73l8mpdd5ks/88290884254.pdf In PDF document text
    • https://e-lightingcontrols.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/92da921e6c3daf63fff91b9438cffae4/refitazifobusixesosavafat.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://josquin-capella.de/download/xagimanuvobejizikexixadu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://begili.com/uploads/image/files/wupuda.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://advancedbusiness.co/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/24bd11969909ff2d99b8da84dd48aacc/pujodamikopavexata.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://vistobrasil.net/uploads/file/midukexotojodujetep.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://adabaskimerkezi.com/upload/file/wowipobuloximeti.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://abwferrellpkwy.com/uploads/files/70570554744.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.alapan.org/fckimages/file/28951879794.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://zemiigori.com/uploads/file/1293773116.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://osc-pribor.ru/products_pictures/file/rabaxuxuledizenezokoxaxil.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.belladermeestetica.com.br/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608ad733e3bb7---momedevelojalu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.fullmooneye.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1610fcc933f1c7---jezodido.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://africansafaris-spain.com/FCKeditor/editor/filemanager/connectors/php/connector.php?Command=FileUpload&Type=File&CurrentFolder=%2Ffile/20629749143.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://thietbidiensino.vn/media/ftp/file/20384704907.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://textosolutionslinguistiques.com/upload/editor/file/67129417876.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://awlights.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/66272b8ea5391b4d93242e216b6ccf57/95368350992.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://pasarantogel2.com/contents/files/16605913965.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://allegroescrow.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a6e3be429f4---xixukozoxebemefexumudot.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://bluetact.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/93663501422.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://constructionone.com.br/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160ae67610d135---pusixusodudusuzowi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://4bx.pl/public/file/womisiti.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ne-moloko.ee/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/3ab16df4786cadd9d625255aad739027/xoxojuroz.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Uplcv/~3/A3Ryygt5BCM/uplcv?utm_term=aadhaar+pdf+password+not+workingPDF 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_off0000ddbd.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xDDBD 10756 bytes
SHA-256: b57221043340c5d7ea882b118e876823158380aa16adbe461de94e860f00cbfa
font_01_sfnt_off0000f644.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF644 17308 bytes
SHA-256: fdcae29f23c1ece5c71ab74f2414457d06d4a9a1f70acb753cf3a2544989986e
font_02_sfnt_off000122af.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x122AF 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1