Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 9273af6f633fe63c…

MALICIOUS

PDF

98.0 KB Created: 2021-09-02 17:30:18 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-07
MD5: e09a003c52ed8616d1fd9cd3c36e7ae8 SHA-1: 2756719ea8d71036758c85feb91ca584135f910d SHA-256: 9273af6f633fe63cd3c1ce0b9457229aae00bc4e55c45c07e49b0c84fbf98ec9
196 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment T1539 Steal Application Data T1056.004 Web Browser

This PDF file was detected as malicious by ClamAV and an ML classifier, indicating a high likelihood of malicious intent. The heuristic 'SE_MFA_LURE' strongly suggests the document is designed to harvest credentials or abuse multi-factor authentication. Numerous URLs were extracted, many pointing to compromised WordPress sites or disposable hosting, likely serving as part of a phishing infrastructure.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9961

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 http://ahcxdq.com/uploads/file/221156304065.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://www.k-24.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160cb0991c8a17---nitowilabubobewume.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://kojeneckezbozi.eu/userfiles/file/88306650573.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ventima.ru/userfiles/file/zezodu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://for-rent-antwerp.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160aab4d590199---87014373330.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://st-communications.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/werikatisal.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://munsusa.org/userfiles/file/20210525170200.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.crossfitparamaribo.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1606f54bd97609---maxiwijumetixi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://spherule.org/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/6006143f3421e1aaef899ff9753c7bf3/56884941866.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.kinoimaging.nl/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160c9e6cf27d0f---gesetepijepuduvamonix.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://tatishev.ru/admin/ckfinder/userfiles/files/81616667161.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://slhs1958.com/clients/18590/File/83142882566.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://pmdrecycling.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160d00f5ef0579---90857196346.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.psalighting.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/52582312e4673ae889437425f13ae21c/zuwewi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://viveironativodevicosa.com.br/ckfinder/userfiles/files/93115255305.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ohligschlaeger-berger.de/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609b6dfd4b9a7---13150980812.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://lawngo.net/fckfiles/45516754619.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://tepihtrava.rs//files/xilinitodisamuv.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.pfgpartners.com.au/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160b2cec426942---4090566135.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://hbphoto.ca/resimler/files/34299339305.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ilovehikari.com/uploads/files/15341004455.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://vilaportugal.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1606e7dafb47e0---votomijogukiniropulim.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://regalcabs.co.uk/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607a7bd658d60---98897185363.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://europeancustomtailor.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/fad9c8e52189fff7650dd1cd41d041bf/74512135493.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://wulf-sanitaer.de/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/1l7ln0l0kaq5cfkoqrsdom6bk9/86342813985.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/skout/mBVl/~3/fzgW7-mxBc0/uplcv?utm_term=shark+duoclean+owners+manualPDF 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_off000114af.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x114AF 10796 bytes
SHA-256: 16c8b494c0dfd83c2534232d7163b5d82b029b2980aced88dcd83a9763aa5edc
font_01_sfnt_off00012d71.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x12D71 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_02_sfnt_off00014583.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x14583 19952 bytes
SHA-256: 2ee7baccb8e070d636cdfa2e3caab54fc74c8d1b7422e537155e9248007b79d4