Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 5c5168a63ba15555…

MALICIOUS

PDF

74.5 KB Created: 2021-09-21 00:03:05 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-26
MD5: 65187a77c83a153d6f3bd42eec677910 SHA-1: 7bad099fe7e2a18c9e420a163f7784875dc5ef6d SHA-256: 5c5168a63ba155559d1864acabd626a7f66c605f90a2aa85793292d5efa640f7
196 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment T1539 Steal Application Data

This PDF file was flagged by ML classifiers and ClamAV as malicious, specifically as a phishing and credential harvesting lure. The document body, though heavily obfuscated, combined with the numerous external URLs, suggests an attempt to redirect users to malicious sites. The heuristic 'SE_MFA_LURE' strongly indicates the intent to steal credentials or session tokens by mimicking MFA prompts.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9951

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://garglob.ru/uplcv?utm_term=yahoo+account+recovery PDF link annotation
    • https://phoenixturkey.com/upload/ckfinder/files/xaxewifam.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.dazzlingdecor.co.uk/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16142db8f6b6c3---lugatilovoveroretinebape.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://mamam.by/upload/File/file/33057447552.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.prieur-equipement.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/dusajopakunedojadod.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://gobelsprofil.com/upload/files/38640129930.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://everestlodgelukla.com/userfiles/file/pibixofotulevefaxiloxaso.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://piazzademarini3ge.com/userfiles/files/nujoniwifuruxujavi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://vector-food.pl/userfiles/file/nisurameduresexilotur.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://bankerz.in/qpic/files/kosav.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://sosonomo.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/kawobemozoduvuderu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://iohrp.org/f_files/files/bofikevidebusazibep.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://skrutit-probeg.ru/upload_picture/file/jojixusaxigigix.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://resurrection-life.net/userfiles/files/56677025124.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ptogel1.com/contents/files/70546052613.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://gberwanda.com/gbe/useruploads/blogs/files/daviwiborirolaxevuwi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://togul.org/sites/default/files/file/11372712806.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://thefutureofgolf.eu/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/161357b5195a2e---mabedalanowoveri.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://arendic.cl/files/41882333161.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://kirks-pool.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/161329dc966462---11502748007.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://eg-connect.com/php_codes/Scott/VieauAssociates/code/userfiles/file/3207948307.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://sevsport.info/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/9d0efe4472593142bd0c8d5f35d46c0e/18589269163.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.lifestaralberta.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16136645200b37---33488945471.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://elsa-daulte.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/69305409803.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://likuidart.com/files/ckeditor/files/40356051935.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_off0000c2d8.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xC2D8 16700 bytes
SHA-256: 4644f2025702a1c735f6bb275b7e4f0caab1f0d85ec5eedf784aa86cb14d3ea0
font_01_sfnt_off0000edd4.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xEDD4 10284 bytes
SHA-256: 571afbdcd80a1a1ded9dc80ba2eae241890f883b43eb6ca704646e6d4d02ef78
font_02_sfnt_off000104fe.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x104FE 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1