Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 8f20d0740faccc6c…

MALICIOUS

PDF

121.2 KB Created: 2021-05-12 01:30:19 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7) First seen: 2021-09-23
MD5: 3962ad7dc9a6454974869c8effe5d9cc SHA-1: 1a9d93addd67749b5f97578e5f7dc1407098d4b5 SHA-256: 8f20d0740faccc6cdb222e4bf1371d92bd963b32952bf22630f7145b5d3f1358
274 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment T1204.002 User Execution: Malicious File T1140 Deobfuscate/Decode Files or Information

The PDF document exhibits multiple high-severity heuristics indicating malicious intent, including a fake CAPTCHA, a password-protected archive lure, and an MFA harvesting lure. The presence of external URIs and a high ML classifier score further support this assessment. The document likely aims to deceive the user into performing an action that leads to credential compromise or malware execution.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9997

Heuristics 10

  • ClamAV: Pdf.Phishing.Trojan-d2568dad23a94d95-d2568dad23a94d95-10044375-0 critical CLAMAV_DETECTION
    ClamAV detected this file as malware: Pdf.Phishing.Trojan-d2568dad23a94d95-d2568dad23a94d95-10044375-0
  • Fake CAPTCHA / human verification prompt high SE_FAKE_CAPTCHA
    Document displays a fake CAPTCHA or human-verification prompt — used to trick users into running commands or pressing keyboard shortcuts
  • Password-protected archive handoff high SE_PASSWORD_ARCHIVE_LURE
    Document gives password instructions for an archive or attachment — often used to keep payloads encrypted until after gateway scanning
  • 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.
  • 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) documents that carry no urgency or charge/dispute escalation.
  • 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://seumenha.ru/strik?utm_term=iomega+storcenter+ix2+factory+reset+button PDF link annotation
    • https://cdn-cms.f-static.net/uploads/4459337/normal_601e6d9a5a5ea.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn-cms.f-static.net/uploads/4389576/normal_60526c6ad19ae.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://static.s123-cdn-static.com/uploads/4424682/normal_5fcda2edd68d5.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://static.s123-cdn-static.com/uploads/4393362/normal_5ffd02fb39ead.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn-cms.f-static.net/uploads/4391621/normal_6037e901da15d.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://leadtop.co/harry_potter_movies_streaming_freeawblp.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://pepevifive.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/4/4/134480859/6007547.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://huseyincanx.com/hbs_730_how_to_charge3avnl.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://toolsbestpricemicrometer.site/manual_de_funciones_de_una_empresa_ejemplos_worddvdk8.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://biramufon.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/4/7/134775887/sowexiga.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://kofukupapakube.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/4/5/134586312/vaweweped.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://mybestchan.online/wiwaxokelomotemusetuaol3k.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/In PDF document text
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/typedesigners.htmlIn PDF document text
    • https://665985ba-8e9f-4173-b993-17a3090d61d7.filesusr.com/ugd/08421c_22773d4875d24433884f5490b2441030.pdf?index=trueIn PDF document text
    • http://gozaletipazepof.rf.gd/22416707139.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://uploads.strikinglycdn.com/files/e199b16c-9b88-4326-81f7-9e4057009f4d/honda_genuine_power_steering_fluid_autozone.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://nupuwabubud.epizy.com/9769209759.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://uploads.strikinglycdn.com/files/1ae63c42-4f91-4418-8670-10e2e2be32b8/fundamentals_of_database_systems_elmasri_navathe_7th_edition_ppt_free_download.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://soxowanukaf.epizy.com/waval.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://c5c27394-2042-4749-9b39-d1c24dcbd9f0.filesusr.com/ugd/e9b987_57c4c392bb1b4fe1b6142c43260be1aa.pdf?index=trueIn PDF document text
    • https://39ad70c8-6a03-4de2-a89b-b0209cba5754.filesusr.com/ugd/d2759c_ef4f350c38a8431b88a3b03588573858.pdf?index=trueIn PDF document text
    • https://6376acfe-5884-4251-b3d5-19a03c044549.filesusr.com/ugd/de3d83_70faac6adb9f4c5ea36e131e8765f2ae.pdf?index=trueIn PDF document text
    • http://tiwufuwivuvuf.epizy.com/79465832480.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
    • 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_off000178cf.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x178CF 5548 bytes
SHA-256: a695164100ca2617623370c8d06d7c5d6781d23cd9f665e8298f7fd48577e6e8
font_01_sfnt_off00018bac.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x18BAC 17188 bytes
SHA-256: 3ba687f412451b8de11f20b5c4b7eca0e5dcd38b1ab8ded622d88264fd4cdf7d
font_02_sfnt_off0001bfc8.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x1BFC8 16880 bytes
SHA-256: c378dc5c98741dea9106ddd0880c89f21f9447b8a0a31924e48e9876f01602cc