Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 5dc793cbf09d4df6…

MALICIOUS

PDF

88.7 KB Created: 2021-07-04 17:56:17 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-09-14
MD5: 851c669b1ff00829a4f295bb5f63ad86 SHA-1: 67b1ce89cbe7740c631d0dbc2182552627876fcb SHA-256: 5dc793cbf09d4df6037f2311f5aca15110622f94dcfadcb20ee7ae841d377061
196 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment T1204.002 User Execution: Malicious Link

The PDF contains numerous links pointing to various domains, many of which are hosted on compromised WordPress sites, suggesting a link farm designed to distribute malicious content. The heuristic 'SE_MFA_LURE' indicates the document likely attempts to harvest credentials or abuse multi-factor authentication. While no scripts were explicitly extracted, the nature of the links and the ML classifier's high confidence score point towards a phishing or credential harvesting campaign.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9942

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://corpusbg.com/files/fck/file/gajoxeke.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://rauvuonsach.com/images/uploads/files/12800034857.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.socalgreatwhite.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609c294b5dd08---45217291417.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://israelonthehouse.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16091ffc2c843f---nixolobe.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://limpjet.com.br/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/6063e76faea6ff5db3bbbd350d7bf0fc/24706564407.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://2sisaccount.com/userfiles/files/69756680356.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://math-talk.kr/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/qim9g8l6i71sl561s9qhn5dmle/subamuwuxemisade.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.gsccn.it/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a3a8c4909bd---xovetoxivejemudaviwoxoto.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.chinacimctrailer.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/392bd35f0f5a944ede594828f852aa8f/27563893480.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.kissdocs.com.au/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16070688425146---22364234416.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://realestateconnect.us/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/j18eflbq2hjc2ph1e73f0jo8d4/8299285808.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://havadisname.com/upload/ckfinder/files/mulijivarofuxozanid.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://amiablediamonds.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/418d6d294e85a373ad24cc87d70bca79/dusilozugiti.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://louvre.lv/res/wysiwyg/file/86760101065.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://uyaviation.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16077e10894e2a---wesobajo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://myphi.biz/nbloom/fckuploads/file/68675960393.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.hptindia.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607fbbe3a44d7---12203866036.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://asaptransfers.co.uk/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/i2vnr70qutkslk9se5dod98us2/tikanigugu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://mithermomix.com.mx/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/1db04a447f843110d664b251e7cdadf3/zuxebixejisogiviboradodut.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://bumsnab.ru/uploads/files/rozugulokalipuwojamif.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cullinanconstruction.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/alh520h3nh1f87rfajs28qraqh/wugibamopidagifaj.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://dtcprojects.com.au/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/l8e42553ddjq9kise1eft9b0v4/fakikofa.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://helloshoppingnepal.com/userfiles/file/verazuzajo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://sambelteri.com/contents//files/gorageworizag.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.unicodesystems.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/3bt2rijcfb10io5m6hhl06o161/nakukexowuvolimikegoxebi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/1eyvgo/aqOO/~3/1KS0DP0cxss/uplcv?utm_term=afk+arena+diamond+guidePDF 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_off0000f802.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF802 17360 bytes
SHA-256: 74b771a94f43535f2c8e1388f77f0968c232e3b773349db2b1f32f886ff299e8
font_01_sfnt_off00012588.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x12588 10556 bytes
SHA-256: 561a930e6210f0830c5e78b1fea879b5e70e6c47724f1ba398d5b7053a935240
font_02_sfnt_off00013d5c.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x13D5C 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1