Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 a11afbabea1f07d7…

MALICIOUS

PDF

74.2 KB Created: 2021-09-11 04:59:26 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-16
MD5: 28fc7618da74003e2b11db1fd5b4ceb8 SHA-1: 6e85b392682146f6328faac8e8cf963df258bd1e SHA-256: a11afbabea1f07d7cfc38acde2e391479279dd01c04e6cd1647dd28c1d8460ce
216 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

This PDF document exhibits strong indicators of phishing and credential harvesting. The 'ML_NYX_PDF_MALICIOUS' and 'CLAMAV_DETECTION' heuristics, along with the 'SE_MFA_LURE' and 'SE_CALLBACK_LURE' findings, confirm its malicious intent. The document likely attempts to trick users into revealing MFA codes or calling fraudulent numbers, potentially leading to account compromise. The embedded URLs suggest a link farm designed to redirect users to phishing sites.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9908

Heuristics 8

  • 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.
  • 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.
  • 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://spirit-legend-enterprises.com/webroot/editor-uploads/files/doxezeb.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://rioairporttransfer.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/tozix.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://nailseasupportgroup.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/193d2beff326f078ee8230c235e1d2df/57604918819.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.1000ena.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1613a1584bb059---9806679548.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://cameranichietsu.com/luutru/files/98896318443.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://beysukonaklari.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/nupiwekagut.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.onestopnaturalstore.ca/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/uu0g35rooedc1rhe9qjmui56qs/98717892918.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://infotechloyalty.com/bot/ckfinder/uf/files/defitek.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://librojuridico.com/aym_images/files/didujepe.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://jcpingie.be/public/files/gexukutugigo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://topenglish.sk/app/webroot/gallery/files/56605746511.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.prowallpanama.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/387cabe77ce6be35db110ac52e24cfb7/2510019584.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://transchem-tech.com/Uploadfiles/files/69029001659.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://unseenadventure.com/userfiles/file/51722499394.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.1000ena.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1613482171cc2c---46398142314.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://padservhosting.com/userfiles/file/9749625273.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://mlsconsulting.net/cms/files/File/10475506828.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://linhquan-group.com/upload/ck/files/vamivoditozuzabab.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://uniquecharacters.com/upload/files/zatetodazujap.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://esprimagroup.com/userfiles/file/nusasutemumelimipa.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://phukienbep.net/media/files/bugexunojizigisuge.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://xn--80ag1a2a.xn--p1ai/files/file/pesevapuniwuxexobatiwiwo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://bimbrlata.cz/UserFiles/File/lukoneremo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://idrogastermoclima.it/Utentifile/FCKPage/file/ribeg.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://atomiccm.com/userfiles/files/11085520554.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://vernadoc.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/be96492d7b3e39d3bcdc2aff5d5830ba/95239325677.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/1eyvgo/aqOO/~3/3CAf4wW3hvY/uplcv?utm_term=fake+card+number+and+security+codePDF 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_off0000c0d4.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xC0D4 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_01_sfnt_off0000d8e6.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xD8E6 16136 bytes
SHA-256: 7f3e2eb9a20cb1d57ef9279d57a980b0606a4058ee7aef22d7e0ce0e1989b5d3
font_02_sfnt_off000101d6.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x101D6 10908 bytes
SHA-256: 33598adb8a6e519527b15503ff6cf13dbb21457c2919a3f5fb78a22decae3cdb