Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 9c895b004b3c8e10…

MALICIOUS

PDF

83.5 KB Created: 2021-09-08 03:30:56 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-04
MD5: 46e4424a39b7f06fa5f90faf479fb39d SHA-1: a7967766992489eca2aa14eba7ed3afbc6dd4357 SHA-256: 9c895b004b3c8e10dc73345c1b0e77fbc59f1455af936401e22e6cd02c3e6e21
196 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

This PDF document was flagged as malicious by ClamAV and an ML classifier. It uses an MFA/2FA-themed lure. The file embeds a large number of external links characteristic of an SEO link farm, many hosted on compromised CMS upload directories. Specific URLs and indicators for this sample are listed in the indicators section.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9974

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://medvor.ru/uplcv?utm_term=download+soal+cpns+2019+pdf+gratis PDF link annotation
    • http://cristal-in.fr/userfiles/file/benizelozelexebij.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://yummyschool.com/_UploadFile/Images/file/74510686371.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://smarttactic.ro/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609f73d92cbc6---81489746947.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://trainternational.in/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160ae8b4a38243---54863709379.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://sxhk365.com/uploads/file///39553557398.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://bcbc3399.com/upload/files/jamiwusamegidarik.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.espymetcalf.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160c080912430f---zavusuze.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.burit.net/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160851bb0166b5---91236730889.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://btegypt.com/file/bozinoku.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.risingstars.com.tr/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608d34bb61a48---73252635096.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://frasertechno.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a83975c52cf---25282921077.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://sosnovgeo.ru/userfiles/file/49795661277.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://yournew.site/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/03o14mgidr069ub1adh531bnpq/31806358378.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://breedlife.com/upload/files/dusisapateza.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.kinoimaging.nl/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160d22d1d301bb---47675036689.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://udachi.co.th/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/ng42k4mmuuq3885m4ihs4hsnfj/79766197014.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://rogersdesignhouse.com/uploads/files/bavapunuri.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://zabradli-znerezu.cz/userfiles/file/kajojewufezotaron.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://stmarys-perthamboy.com/upload/File/5369317222.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://izharfoster.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16123c931b5c17---bowusasozurito.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://goactive.hu/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/ba319e9a6143b50dcc7e5046c7862427/jutukumopironawumumep.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://egyseg.eu/ckfinder/userfiles/files/54055847239.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://exhibitionchannel.com/upload/xazumaxetepamekun.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://basisangka.com/contents/files/53002359813.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.teppiche-waschen-hamburg.de/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609a9f2ece5e1---14839597510.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://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_off0000e09c.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xE09C 11212 bytes
SHA-256: 0128d9d0df7a48ded085910eb70646b559fdc6ab4ba19a14914c56a31d08d9a7
font_01_sfnt_off0000fae8.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xFAE8 17200 bytes
SHA-256: f2f1a82b187f6ae5322470bd3d7d61b77ecc55e2933a5db95ef62ac69308f474
font_02_sfnt_off000127e7.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x127E7 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1