Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 7bf568442c03cda8…

MALICIOUS

PDF

80.0 KB Created: 2021-06-19 07:13:02 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7) First seen: 2021-10-11
MD5: e60189fd7f788302eba7057d88088811 SHA-1: c53e3047712727b9b612f82e4bb5e8851ef9cd69 SHA-256: 7bf568442c03cda8bfaeeeacbedab3f929f0120b8df395795d8f609cb7944cc2
196 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The sample is a PDF document flagged by ML classifiers and ClamAV as malicious. Heuristics indicate it functions as an MFA or one-time-code harvesting lure, consistent with credential phishing. The document contains numerous links to external PDFs hosted on various domains, many of which appear to be compromised CMS uploads or disposable hosting, suggesting a link farm designed to distribute the phishing content.

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
  • 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://www.frontierexim.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/n37q1oqouiphmivh0l4av5hcsu/bumubofojunakibadetibuj.pdf In PDF document text
    • https://www.oneirishrover.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/37743bfc63ad1c9ecda1ce40e6f3cfea/mepufifuwedejilorefogeta.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://alibabashipping.com/userfiles/file/pitogurezixufevizeboba.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://clubmaniacr.com/campannas/file/83230959820.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ibb-online.ru/f/file/pejoda.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.sunaryem.com.tr/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/drbhmhr33b8afhsen0oejhdb21/58452215797.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://dm288.rs/slicice/file/komozuxejop.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://hasekei.jp/userfiles/file/25271581806.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.syah.org/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/6871063e1d7aaef9a02caee29eb15fc2/78690749561.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ptk-astana.kz/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/cdb6a8e6b9e621096cc83b6d7ea212ec/solebajerumobuparipus.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://auto-rujo.com/images-editor/file/fewinemiwawilal.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://walkofagesvt.org/clients/0/0e/0e42319052772b195a43ba3ede0f03e0/File/budad.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://premiumresourcing.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16082a741ce1c5---rizuzawim.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://arniestribu.com/campannas/file/24512561729.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://couvreur-hautdoubs.fr/internet_new/images_et_fichiers//file/46766833747.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://accessiblevehicleservices.com/userfiles/file/83969800911.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://bustotoronto.com/userfiles/file/10199519155.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/DOqCt-cVA4I/uplcv?utm_term=hack+apk+free+firePDF 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

Extracted artifacts 3

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
font_00_sfnt_off0000e346.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xE346 4316 bytes
SHA-256: 04264c1a035b1d2c458d732bd72f1a3f6e2ef7f66ceabd81cee6d5cb1203be42
font_01_sfnt_off0000f1f6.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF1F6 15560 bytes
SHA-256: a59098db799d518327882afb81e0de681beb8f975bce8a3263673f95c2d4ff9e
font_02_sfnt_off00012376.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x12376 4324 bytes
SHA-256: 4fcfa7c68d76e23b667942a3ac892d2d5d88346478daafc61479ad4df4af3dd3