Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 7ae9bff172674e4d…

MALICIOUS

PDF

87.0 KB Created: 2021-06-22 15:04:52 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7) First seen: 2021-09-29
MD5: 8dd421f983321602447a34285619d4c0 SHA-1: f73fe25e1e1131173a6e593789a3ee0bf8c998d4 SHA-256: 7ae9bff172674e4d0853cbbeadbac033a0c996d4f1a133aff0e1fba23fb5d735
216 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment T1059.007 JavaScript

This PDF document exhibits characteristics of a phishing lure, specifically designed to harvest credentials or abuse multi-factor authentication. The presence of numerous links pointing to compromised WordPress sites and disposable hosting, coupled with the 'MFA Lure' heuristic, strongly suggests an attempt to trick users into divulging sensitive information. While no scripts were directly extracted, the PDF structure and embedded URLs indicate a malicious intent to redirect users to phishing pages.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9996

Heuristics 8

  • 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.
  • Callback phishing phone lure medium SE_CALLBACK_LURE
    Document asks the user to call a phone number in billing, refund, subscription, fraud, or security context — consistent with callback phishing or tech-support scam patterns. Suppressed for legitimate-issuer (IRS/gov/official-form) or Microsoft license-boilerplate documents that carry no urgency or charge/dispute escalation.
  • 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 http://rethabise.co.za/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608310774ac22---77481630879.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://sieckultury.pl/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/422b309e7df4f9460ee2e1017a68dc76/tepojegidededozomelamu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://aftckwt.com/uploads/file/depajezivilosetabafema.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.stallionreadymix.co.za/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1606d27fc2b8f4---senapukofare.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://intelean.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160c0f32f2217d---91656084119.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://luxcottage.ru/stroykamen/userfiles/file/474432409.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://beckydavidsonhomes.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608a922bed5f3---81228025022.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://hysansam.com/fckeditor/userfiles/image/88764508622.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.hkwebdesign.com.hk/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160bb600a9382b---xawokamojokuz.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://mgmkt.com.br/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a027a32461e---bovonakonovutobage.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.iycadana.org/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/8ajqus44i3at1f1p9ncqp3lro2/jerajar.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://terapie-psi.ro/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160b245de40ba9---nekisulaki.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://pamat.ro/UserFiles/file/65786648001.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://tucsonhomewindowtint.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/b68df8d87dfb3794f8ff62e2831e4669/63270383281.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://hhs63.org/clients/8/88/88ec95b665b56da82b1de85f097fba10/File/66677274437.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://parfumzone.ro/files/file/walipizo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.mvdisposal.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607199ed23d33---mifokejirejesus.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://neavocats.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/762931e06f48160dad098f5a16c48f54/mozotujenajor.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/skout/mBVl/~3/BvfzZFkJO3s/uplcv?utm_term=ehsaas+program+online+check+cnic+numberPDF 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://scripts.sil.org/OFLIn PDF document text
    • http://dejavu.sourceforge.netIn PDF document text
    • http://dejavu.sourceforge.net/wiki/index.php/LicenseIn PDF document text

Extracted artifacts 4

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
font_00_sfnt_off0000e919.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xE919 5308 bytes
SHA-256: 3c2d7c8ae5bc242d9a641649645c3d2580f3f090480613e6a60c75e9e6877e64
font_01_sfnt_off0000faf1.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xFAF1 11740 bytes
SHA-256: a0ec7d237d5171beb3ccd32313571c41106f9bb51953aebb711d8d86b13c96a9
font_02_sfnt_off000122a3.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x122A3 18884 bytes
SHA-256: bfdc34ce2166a8748ac0e17c78dad71eceb48abe6b4a26c265d13799506bba7d
font_03_sfnt_off00014036.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x14036 4324 bytes
SHA-256: 0d0f64e27578eb124b8bc81c7eceacdd166e22eddd95c81328e9fbd7de2a6333