Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 54482a8ce4333c77…

MALICIOUS

PDF

86.2 KB Created: 2021-08-19 18:55:01 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3)
MD5: 926fc00cc431afe5e842f657f5c95876 SHA-1: 405c3f2b141025e3466ad2bbd72f19a5a2f1ee12 SHA-256: 54482a8ce4333c774d91b2a6d5a7e9492508019b01a1c7236deb0e8cec1b4b2a
264 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment T1539 Steal Web Session Cookie T1078.004 Cloud Accounts

This PDF document is designed to phish for user credentials and recovery secrets, as indicated by heuristics flagging MFA/one-time-code harvesting and recovery secret requests. The document contains numerous links to external websites, many of which appear to be hosted on compromised or disposable domains, suggesting a phishing infrastructure. While no scripts were explicitly extracted, the PDF structure and embedded URLs strongly suggest an attempt to lure users into providing sensitive information.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9905

Heuristics 9

  • Recovery secret / private key request critical SE_SECRET_RECOVERY_LURE
    Document requests recovery phrases, private keys, backup codes, or saved passwords. Requests for these secrets in a document are high-risk.
  • 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.
  • Urgency / deadline lure low SE_URGENCY_LURE
    Document contains urgency or deadline language ('account will be terminated', 'action required within 24 hours', etc.) — useful context, but low-signal without other findings
  • 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://drafthe.ru/uplcv?utm_term=how+do+i+log+into+my+old+hotmail+account
    • https://mashtalkandil.com/userfiles/file/39725580269.pdf
    • http://asesoriagarpe.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16084b7cb92293---25877426497.pdf
    • http://usaoxin.com/userfiles/2021-8/file/14077123534.pdf
    • https://cottingham-group.com/cufiles/files/soxifu.pdf
    • http://steclotildehorton.ca/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160c8eb5561708---3825615271.pdf
    • https://all-new-wow.com/upload/files/duvuzeselavifedo.pdf
    • http://ardechetendancebrut.fr/userfiles/ardechetendancebrut.fr/file/43879271334.pdf
    • https://ajur.rest/uploads/userfiles/file/tubotakarimaxawagivumok.pdf
    • https://www.hungryalex.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/cac7d73e09cd3a3b22ae382176d6265b/todekobunoniruruj.pdf
    • http://deurenhanger.nl/userfiles/file/wapudepukamebanoloj.pdf
    • http://springswellness.net/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a5b3f163872---texivaf.pdf
    • https://mediabandit.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16075bccecb44f---85666419018.pdf
    • http://theydeserveastamp.org/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a0efc8196f0---72197133712.pdf
    • http://beergolfers.com/blog/images/file/58678115431.pdf
    • https://www.coconutlodge.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607946d5833bf---fakozokigekedig.pdf
    • http://asupuro.com/user_data/image//file/12591250648.pdf
    • http://dmn.ca/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607f9cb8b3485---81485502745.pdf
    • https://www.vigo.co.za/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160b9f8f265577---ripere.pdf
    • https://member-amz-seller-system.de/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/b7df8929b503004d78c09799598b032e/74752536840.pdf
    • http://famillespourstarlight.ca/clients/a/a9/a9b42c05011d3bb27e7f7ec2ed30324f/File/59572514290.pdf
    • http://www.naturhalles.fr/fckeditor/userfiles/file/30492002948.pdf
    • http://xn--80ackbssfuieecff0e8c.xn--p1ai/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/js2e9r3bm5qebcfk0ajhbjs5j0/kexevo.pdf
    • http://meble-tk.pl/userfiles/file/59865565395.pdf
    • http://www.airportlimofortlauderdale.net/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607e2f628c381---karebovigapimuxiw.pdf
    • http://yejida.com/userfiles/file/59490518487.pdf
    • http://studioaba.net/userfiles/files/85347836105.pdf
    • http://drukarnia-skawina.pl/app/webroot/media/files/53068782326.pdf
    • http://www.w3.org/1999/02/22-rdf-syntax-ns#
    • http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/
    • http://ns.adobe.com/pdf/1.3/
    • http://ns.adobe.com/xap/1.0/
    • http://ns.adobe.com/xap/1.0/mm/
    • http://ns.adobe.com/xap/1.0/rights/
    • http://dejavu.sourceforge.net
    • http://dejavu.sourceforge.net/wiki/index.php/License

Extracted artifacts 3

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
font_00_sfnt_off0000ebc0.bin
b1eb6fffd0a4b007f5b63a5ef88241e8551fa0b09267d7b5c7256ec257102f06
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xEBC0 17700 bytes
font_01_sfnt_off00011a4e.bin
9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x11A4E 16792 bytes
font_02_sfnt_off00013265.bin
bd90ba651b00f39e254ee7e7db88af97535caae26fde875611c2aaa74e57bb2c
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x13265 10708 bytes