Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 9bcaf102c8750cf5…

MALICIOUS

PDF

75.5 KB Created: 2021-09-14 14:12:31 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-16
MD5: 8a43371943084022976ee302f0c1973a SHA-1: 0c97c54c374d13d6b4b4a247fced700f2022e2e7 SHA-256: 9bcaf102c8750cf550e68bdb7ed533b76559e16972ea19fdbdb97040ad21eda7
206 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment T1203 Exploitation for Client Execution

This PDF document was flagged by multiple heuristics as malicious, including a fake CAPTCHA and an MFA lure, indicating a phishing attempt. The presence of numerous embedded URLs, many pointing to PDF files on various domains, suggests it is part of a link farm designed to redirect users to malicious content. While no scripts were directly extracted, the nature of the lures and the embedded URLs strongly suggest an intent to exploit user interaction for credential harvesting or further payload delivery.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9948

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
  • 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
  • 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.
  • 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.gs-gleichmann.de/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16134aea4d9a7c---8108335403.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://www.sanruou.com/app/webroot/uploads/files/bojarunipiposutabur.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://agriturismolionsfarm.it/userfiles/files/43308013592.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://kpotplace.com/uploads/files/jomegitavezi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://bugaboo-buffalo.eu/UserFiles/File/14199760700.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://muabannhagiare.net/images/uploads/files/goxibuxineki.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://asacnfservices.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/36779009569.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://terminal.hr/userfiles/file/50744303412.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://baaningdoi.com/file_media/file_image/file/85989207221.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://aotwresort.info/ckfinder/userfiles/files/bowene.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.cda.org.hk/ckfinder/userfiles/files/23804399180.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://wijnhuis-vaessen.nl/site/data/ws/files/riton.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://sunarchegypt.com/userfiles/file/lorusole.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://htygroup.com/upload/files/35459037162.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://i-p-p-c.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/raritakakaliluxuranizag.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.mamafoundation.cz/ckfinder/userfiles/files/70693154052.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://esangsok.com/upfile/files/67984155266.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.ufolep-69.com/contenus/files/luradebukasirobeza.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://parfumerieindex.nl/images/uploads/28132417703.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.vegagastro.pl/upload/file/33655501281.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://tofuyatogo.com/uploads/files/mozad.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://loaamtran.com/files/usersfiles/files/labaxef.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://daoltrading.com/userData/board/file/10776540086.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://yachtales.net/admin/userfiles/files/22690972224.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/skout/mBVl/~3/cv9VXjIrmdE/uplcv?utm_term=uc+free+pubg+mobilePDF 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_off0000c228.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xC228 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_01_sfnt_off0000da3a.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xDA3A 18168 bytes
SHA-256: 70fd3809bbd532613717c8c6a1523512d98b7cc659d7f5e645af5d20d4868a04
font_02_sfnt_off0001095f.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x1095F 10536 bytes
SHA-256: 418a80fd490d15e9bb8179366294906c705a1c685b5847762263f891a1fd650e