Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 a843d9c5e36b5743…

MALICIOUS

PDF

121.7 KB Created: 2021-07-25 06:42:14 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-09-15
MD5: 29249ded1ad91a37d13fb44503a71d92 SHA-1: e9ba3ceafcc6f7113ff4de25692f2618523a09e4 SHA-256: a843d9c5e36b5743a01ef3125cdea5d3767e0be839c86319ad48a7d4c61e664b
204 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment T1204.001 User Execution: Malicious Link

The PDF contains multiple heuristics indicating a malicious phishing lure, including a download button and an MFA harvesting attempt. The ML classifier and ClamAV detection strongly suggest malicious intent. The document body is heavily obfuscated, but the presence of external links and the overall heuristic profile point towards a phishing campaign that likely attempts to download a second-stage payload or harvest credentials.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9976

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.
  • Visual download / call-to-action button lure low SE_DOWNLOAD_BUTTON
    Document contains a call-to-action phrase ('Click here to download', 'Download Now', etc.) — low-signal unless other findings point to a malicious workflow
  • 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://bagandpack.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/fb5de2076a52ff80e1c9f344a205fdd5/55066761558.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://topopentertainment.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a26123a1819---30657123587.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://arslanemlak.come/file/gokanekalemotazopizelu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://fellowpeo.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/6e4ed7ee41b1d1205f0d0695c584c847/zabarepojereji.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://414movement.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/ebe26e0cd648444080ab947f2556f3f9/kibixomanirilor.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://benhvientantao.com/img_duhoc/files/kafofotide.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://haps.company/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/tc7tv4te4ugnu6jjl34jum8b57/74586848021.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.1000ena.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160af5fe8032e7---vanemu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.toptehnik.si/images/2669966452.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://africansafaris-spain.com/FCKeditor/editor/filemanager/connectors/php/connector.php?Command=FileUpload&Type=File&CurrentFolder=%2Ffile/molafepipamor.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://mjacz.cz/soubory/files/mevib.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://advancedbusiness.co/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/c9c55c001af8e78a83a2d6f3afb60e19/mutetiteneludobeli.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.kzhep.in.ua/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/hlr8lq4g9onh13913el7g5r9j6/66426043643.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://bayardplaza.co.uk/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/ljbqj04rjgdsi99178u4g8v228/bopujefimowif.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://euredit-editions.com/userfiles/file/83876189385.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://andrejc.si/files/file/82827663010.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://luisacortesearchitetto.it/userfiles/files/57831540192.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://bradleyhillsapartments.com/demo/uploads/contents/file/voret.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://vaytieudungtragop.com.vn/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/v9gj8npmkc6jscrhi7jqbseq6b/gakexovefexadu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://lexen.ca/userfiles/files/37804965275.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://jun-travel.com/userfiles/file/37807741252.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://nd-58.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/180756a7781e7ab45d8db06aafa5d9d9/19306964665.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.escon.it/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/95048dc7202f7b083992f9b1de498a7f/3439615993.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/skout/mBVl/~3/DOqCt-cVA4I/uplcv?utm_term=citroen+xsara+picasso+maintenance+guidePDF 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_off00016e37.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x16E37 24068 bytes
SHA-256: cdcab72493c8ffc766d609a11ee8c157d814c8572688359c79b95911bfe240be
font_01_sfnt_off0001a755.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x1A755 11044 bytes
SHA-256: 918221442992d532ae79ff726ac61a4a92d3984a5317eb3a6f56c8fba313077c
font_02_sfnt_off0001c0e3.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x1C0E3 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1