Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 9a4295a11da7b5c5…

MALICIOUS

PDF

73.3 KB Created: 2021-09-18 04:32:01 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-16
MD5: bb9334328a721b28d1b98be28474c3c6 SHA-1: 7d29f528997a273edb73947ad29d5c01aa93d449 SHA-256: 9a4295a11da7b5c5870f521e2d1391464e3d3a2dbc7555b42610d9db802ff5d5
196 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF file was flagged by multiple heuristics, including ML classification and ClamAV, indicating malicious intent. The 'SE_MFA_LURE' heuristic strongly suggests the document is designed to phish for credentials by requesting MFA confirmation or one-time codes. The numerous embedded URLs pointing to compromised or disposable hosting further support this phishing campaign.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9947

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://chief-moving.com/editor_upload/file/jupiwilubape.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://topbuild.net/content/xuploadimages/file/85414281460.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://uniquecharacters.com/upload/files/modarofunuzilob.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://harekatmemuru.com/images/Media/files/xabipixuvasaf.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://zatoodesign.com/userfiles/files/zofazavedojojuper.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://weboonline.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/54668335605.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://riggi.ru/userfiles/file/soriwab.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://oriental-kitchens.com/userfiles/files/65831533100.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://bukharaatlanta.com/sites/default/files/file/tipagakitodomewukig.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://hypotekaprezamestnancov.sk/res/file/59258734528.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://medbillings.us/lightspeedweb1/file/43052546613.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://partnercable.com/files/23048395405.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://juncheng.tw/upload/files/zokorobafetefonigabof.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://buyyoutubesubscribers.com/ci/userfiles/files/71132256257.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://hoalavender.net/upload/files/jowobapoto.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://beamstraffic.ae/amb/userfiles/file/ziwuxikagexamijafazo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.3dreamchurch.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/94c31ec3e508990eebe3c435f7a14807/suwegifixezitalewowab.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ziepniekkalns.lv/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16140e42ca85ed---lugix.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://inchirierielicopter.ro/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16141cbdaefa54---84680290353.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://es21sys.com/userfiles/file/lukogodomivuvukaguxon.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://zhihepvb.com/upload/ckimg/files/202109031046339458.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://bistro-8.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/ee84d3876d438886239c4dfb9bc2a1a6/61175249364.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://vce34.ru/attachments/file/jidutogi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://geluidsadviesnederland.nl/ckfinder/userfiles/files/86030321940.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://skvely-kup.cz/files/file/lejobowevizugod.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Uplcv/~3/PmAiG5ZyT-k/uplcv?utm_term=android+banking+trojanPDF 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 extracted file (font_00_sfnt_off0000be09.bin)
    • http://dejavu.sourceforge.net/wiki/index.php/LicenseIn extracted file (font_00_sfnt_off0000be09.bin)

Extracted artifacts 3

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
font_00_sfnt_off0000be09.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xBE09 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_01_sfnt_off0000d620.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xD620 10420 bytes
SHA-256: c452fce1ef5f24fc80fed136a753985c4844a8bc75fb620d477cbdbc4a9a45c7
font_02_sfnt_off0000ed92.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xED92 16624 bytes
SHA-256: 9b3c0cc2efb6c0139892d6fd4dd2a8ec11ef87da7c92036b63d2af88ffd25471