Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 ad05bede028fe13a…

MALICIOUS

PDF

74.9 KB Created: 2021-09-06 12:48:07 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-12
MD5: 80d391c29d7fb5b5da8e0ef840502c57 SHA-1: bdf31b815276df265da369496edaf47efaf591c4 SHA-256: ad05bede028fe13aabfdfd3aefba6d08683450b703c6bb230ed84fb5cfb1aa9a
204 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

This PDF document was flagged by multiple heuristics and a machine learning classifier as malicious, with ClamAV identifying it as a phishing trojan. The presence of a 'download button' lure and an MFA/one-time-code harvesting prompt strongly suggests a credential phishing attempt. Numerous embedded URLs point to compromised WordPress sites and other disposable hosting, likely serving as landing pages or further stages of the attack.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9985

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 https://crewmak.ru/uplcv?utm_term=engel+injection+molding+machine+manual PDF link annotation
    • https://earthideasawnings.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609286ecee257---84620268861.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.sarajevo-inn-grunewald.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160850718eb3b1---44893014440.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://iideree.org/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607aba5c54799---57511613115.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://menu2uplus.com/images/file/91276297682.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ck-kutnahora.cz/gais/image/file/fovivijad.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://artasedanasingaraja.com/uploadfck/file/38318727483.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://aloisiquadri.it/userfiles/files/19578524917.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://indiebookoftheday.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160e12600d5865---59214809699.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://akifkasaboglu.com/esatfisek/images_upload/files/91888121450.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.lesson-online.org/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/fo21rqqqns900rpa9553dq9bi1/nebokumozamowosiwoke.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://golden-candies.ru/webroot/files/files/rigexugaka.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.ideaklinikbakirkoy.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16134ae6949ab0---39032962251.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://sun-green.be/ckfinder/userfiles/files/37799450080.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://stark-tools.ru/images/uploaded/pubadesenojukamejipege.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://mg001.cn/upload_fck/file/2021-5-22/20210522040348927686.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://donleroy.net/customer/3/d/9/3d947ad6ce2568d98b832ccf5548371bFile/18399856972.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.alquilerbares.com.ar/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607099decd5d7---pokofe.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ohligschlaeger-berger.de/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1610038864e303---88794427576.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://promocionesnma.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/af7fd42a3d585f06e7334780ae88c438/fipamamajodebisa.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://xn----8sbpvg0afdbe.xn--p1ai/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/lsrs1imre33lra493tb55lsdh4/zagawesixogusugimosenu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.musicmaestrodiscos.co.uk/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160900597d3701---15208516767.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_off0000c278.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xC278 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_01_sfnt_off0000da8a.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xDA8A 16748 bytes
SHA-256: 16a2c3c26e8ef709bc993b113cfcb2b13ca729f197f3ea1300d9ec9c1c83adc4
font_02_sfnt_off000105de.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x105DE 10760 bytes
SHA-256: 2af20cb82fa18a1ef4b7ed61791db698d5794a4bf436c240f8ae52567418aaf1