Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 74478b2fc2c8df10…

MALICIOUS

PDF

70.9 KB Created: 2021-04-11 05:53:23 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7) First seen: 2021-05-26
MD5: 091c9142f8ab10693ca2c588d40f6646 SHA-1: fdca1f0b5e92c74a85efa63b9406f469baf6662f SHA-256: 74478b2fc2c8df10aae86d9755b852f651c9468dcacb4fb5a7658524068bcc58
174 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment T1539 Steal or Forge Credentials

The PDF was flagged by ML classifiers and ClamAV as malicious, specifically as a phishing or credential harvesting attempt. The presence of an MFA lure heuristic strongly suggests the document is designed to trick users into entering one-time codes or approving login requests, which is a common tactic for stealing session tokens or credentials. The document body, though heavily corrupted, contains references to 'wkhtmltopdf' and a date, indicating it was likely generated programmatically. Numerous embedded URLs were found, many pointing to potentially compromised or malicious domains, suggesting a phishing campaign.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9998

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
  • 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.
  • Visual download / call-to-action button lure low SE_DOWNLOAD_BUTTON
    Document contains a call-to-action phrase ('Click here to download', 'Download Now', etc.) — low-signal unless other findings point to a malicious workflow
  • 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.osgeurope.com/sites/osg-corporate.dev/files/webform/19824824677.pdf In PDF document text
    • https://www.osgeurope.com/sites/osg-corporate.dev/files/webform/99469138220.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://aboss.by/sites/default/files/webform/10891008032.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.termis.org/system/files/webform/vomijalikuwukilowerosi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.pbttphtk.gov.my/sites/default/files/webform/33269367294.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://cicatsalud.com/html/sites/default/files/webform/jowodudarazobipadumalo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://aboss.by/sites/default/files/webform/pibodanagulevegomenet.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.enwidth.com/sites/default/files/webform/resumes/paxifufal.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.dgs-interparts.be/sites/default/files/viwiredozilopuvotudulufez.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.enwidth.com/sites/default/files/webform/resumes/22435641867.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://pilgrimland.com/sites/default/files/webform/resume-uploads/tixatikuwasa.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.pacificsportfraservalley.com/sites/default/files/webform/joxelivoresilawefuxeli.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/In PDF document text
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/typedesigners.htmlIn PDF document text
    • http://www.daltonmaag.com/In PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Uplcv/~3/LPIa9PGmDLg/uplcv?utm_term=ha+nami+ban+gaye+mp3PDF link annotation
    • https://community.princeton.edu/system/files/webform/boranewibutafale.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://community.princeton.edu/system/files/webform/36479690150.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://thesanfordschool.asu.edu/sites/default/files/webform/xumigisapiwonatidokababup.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://lib.asu.edu/system/files/webform/delibenapu.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://scripts.sil.org/OFLIn PDF document text

Extracted artifacts 3

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
font_00_sfnt_off0000cbbb.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xCBBB 4796 bytes
SHA-256: 2cf7ea2d264dd583d76462202431d273a80e9e2f197a5588941cb561b8142812
font_01_sfnt_off0000dbef.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xDBEF 10700 bytes
SHA-256: f2653ff6b1dc28dcfb7b01a5caa3a41970cead25b5469b17d8ae2248b7e97996
font_02_sfnt_off00010084.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x10084 4324 bytes
SHA-256: 05d2457133b820fa77aa358e30e9acfbad3f04c46ced9a37296d9311117db176