Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 ae646c8481bce6bc…

MALICIOUS

PDF

90.0 KB Created: 2021-08-17 01:20:56 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-07
MD5: 74d2b2c1ee63d2753517244162376646 SHA-1: 191738c2fc4e715bfa8e5a0d96562a38a7e648f4 SHA-256: ae646c8481bce6bc6fd1a73ca20295835e54e0c071bda61ba44431dc86e6579c
196 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment T1539 Steal Application Data

This PDF file was detected as malicious by ClamAV and an ML classifier, indicating a high likelihood of malicious intent. The heuristic 'SE_MFA_LURE' strongly suggests the document is designed for credential phishing, specifically targeting multi-factor authentication or one-time codes. The embedded URLs point to compromised WordPress sites and link farms, likely serving as landing pages for the phishing attempt.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9973

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://newat.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/a78b994b6d64afe1a576c05182bbf8c5/64235681781.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://veraschwemmle.de/fckdata/file/tedupamaneru.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://rubenferro.com/userfiles/file/70312400732.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://primeodontorj.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/9b5fdd4d8a93cebec50e8d3c44190084/jekijuviz.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://inchirieriavioane.ro/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607f2a794a666---34097876920.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://wecareprogram.org/images/file/42784594764.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://dsagco.com/Upload/file/94063540032.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cls-toronto.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/72bb43c7176ca9613f894070f873eafa/tujuxemajomefi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.sanier.pl/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/86ddb3rvk5jj2mnbvca0nmeamc/fikimamemojajevigaxozafu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://millecolori.it/images/file/wanefonevisaxodef.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://thesetnews.com/images/fckeditor/file/lesasafi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://uaqbakery.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160cdf86533f6c---bepasirijevitokes.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://alsumiri.net/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/fd762719c3a03dd110e7be8280548025/55175551400.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://xn----7sbabak5acz7byau.xn--p1ai/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/a50318e2ac88083d11fa64cfaded6010/farotulos.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://amfmeg.org/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607925d981e2a---nalesovilalitetebesosiwo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://abogarestudio.com/userfiles/file/80792911057.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://fieldofgreen.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/d248785603eb35eb5e0dc6b53f8d61da/kixelowuzukizax.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://asesoriagarpe.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160f0d614e90f6---33238948188.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://noks.cz/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607d3a6581617---wakubovesesugop.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://omniatel.it/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1606d17e9e7a3b---gabufepazulam.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://zkojicin.cz/userfiles/file/40885311902.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cgeminfos.ma/upload/file/seluvenodetebetorizi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://kebirbeton.com/userfiles/file/kitisera.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://monacollection.ua/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/cbc93acb15a49b79015ac6182eeb9b4b/77777237342.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.db-ynox.fr/ckfinder/userfiles/files/64664557911.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/1eyvgo/aqOO/~3/3CAf4wW3hvY/uplcv?utm_term=tamil+mod+apk+free+fire+hackPDF 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_off0000f89e.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF89E 18200 bytes
SHA-256: d39c4661a752b916282160bb218d05b9947e3912cf9cbf23e5601be86707c410
font_01_sfnt_off00012888.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x12888 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_02_sfnt_off0001409f.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x1409F 10572 bytes
SHA-256: 4d5aa06a98ba276cc5a3f426ed887d75bd2c256ed6a8c79456464d3318a61ccf