Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 584f80a33490a7c5…

MALICIOUS

PDF

107.2 KB Created: 2021-06-30 10:55:07 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-08-25
MD5: 9e8b994a6a291d00f89dca779a56ce98 SHA-1: fa3be607b424106d8e9fc092e10805866849c23d SHA-256: 584f80a33490a7c570af79c556626763580a3055bead3af1074d553ce72e6048
136 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment T1555 Credentials from Password Stores

The PDF document contains numerous links to external websites, many of which appear to be hosted on compromised WordPress sites or disposable domains, suggesting a link farm for phishing. The 'SE_MFA_LURE' heuristic indicates the document is designed to harvest credentials by requesting one-time codes or MFA confirmations. While no scripts were explicitly extracted, the presence of embedded URLs and the nature of the heuristics strongly suggest a credential phishing attack, likely delivered as a spearphishing attachment.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9968

Heuristics 6

  • 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://oniceh.ru/uplcv?utm_term=the+good+parts+by+douglas+crockford+pdf PDF link annotation
    • https://quangcaowebsite.vn/uploads/files/3258926528.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://hchoanglong.vn/userfiles/file/78309832321.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.marthatrotts.ca/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608366b2d8c94---45806863669.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://gazosilikatnn.ru/uploads/files/negixom.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://bjjiffy.com/upload/51561625987.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://fashioncenterpoint.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/1239415ac64e76392d6151a2db107a12/vofusilimuromameniv.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://jagodkaprzedszkole.pl/userfiles/file/pesimanakifigavolaruvu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.sunarozlem.com.tr/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/m6jbh6ur48uu2d341uqj8af5o6/97208810160.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.putnamtaxi.net/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160aa8c4008a75---41829922470.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://lotuscourtpune.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/ssmb9i09fa82omc4781t0car77/lokozigabiraxira.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.kevinbrooks.ca/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607e3aa6b0780---25976459910.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.baptistenhardenberg.nl/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16076aeb32078e---76327376891.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://nobleanimalsanctuary.org/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/tmp/36919288359.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://coiffurenais.com/userfiles/file/nuvakemakobuluzopewume.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://tcufroghouses.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607b7664be4e4---xidatenogukawuwapadegotaw.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.hagensmarketing.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16089e6f793812---sumezifoletizugilinone.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://youstore21.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/178c00277777f10aada3f5931722d6c6/dilumujoxagajixalaxufe.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.diktu.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160ce070c56e58---jajegeve.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://fatamorgana.fr/uploads/assets/file/rivalujojasodamatabofu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://yarsan.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/3e06ca7ed09d360c88669f266e95ef4e/libipu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://allianztc.ro/files/file/66397525450.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.rekalibracija.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/a80135438b5c755d142e8743eb099e97/58602724067.pdfIn 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://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_off00013cee.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x13CEE 11112 bytes
SHA-256: 75bf7ba1cab0cae2cb3230bd884ca883044798d5c51c90e250ed570ba7cf4862
font_01_sfnt_off000156af.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x156AF 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_02_sfnt_off00016ec1.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x16EC1 18356 bytes
SHA-256: ce18c9ba46b8e427219136473033ca9099e948833247980f078eb30c5e076594