Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 af5ea26e821b5ae6…

MALICIOUS

PDF

81.6 KB Created: 2021-09-23 00:45:14 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-11
MD5: d0c0451182e4f44f6f95cd5d6949574b SHA-1: 15c6f30d174d85e99c47746f34870336d2bd0b9b SHA-256: af5ea26e821b5ae67220e17765fca7b49cb25bcb96c1a96c2ce6c5d3ac691410
224 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment T1204.002 Malicious Link

This PDF file contains embedded JavaScript and numerous external URIs pointing to compromised WordPress sites and other disposable hosting. The heuristics indicate lures for QR code scanning and MFA harvesting, suggesting a phishing or credential theft attempt. The ML classifier and ClamAV detection strongly indicate malicious intent, likely to redirect users to phishing pages or download further malicious content.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9949

Heuristics 9

  • ClamAV: Pdf.Phishing.Trojan-d2528dad23a95d95-d2528dad23a95d95-10044376-0 critical CLAMAV_DETECTION
    ClamAV detected this file as malware: Pdf.Phishing.Trojan-d2528dad23a95d95-d2528dad23a95d95-10044376-0
  • 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.
  • QR-code redirect lure medium SE_QR_LURE
    Document instructs the user to scan a QR code with a phone — consistent with QR phishing, but also common in legitimate documents
  • Embedded JS stream low PDF_JS
    PDF references a /JS stream. Generic JavaScript is common in benign forms; specific dangerous APIs are scored by separate rules.
  • 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://wastran.ru/uplcv?utm_term=discord+mobile+qr+code PDF link annotation
    • https://andhimazhai.com/images/files/zarafo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://sharzh-ufa.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/4e4c83124a400667bba96321cf9f11e3/gisedofejosi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://only-svet.ru/upload/files/wumepuximedodutem.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://bizdrive.nl/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1/161395a189adef---10819520677.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://restavratorstvo.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/43862557689.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://scbczy.cn/up_files/file/20210920_195540.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://1000projects.ru/upload_picture/file/37163676058.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://thietbivesinhanhhuy.com/asset/files/pozojukikopef.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://aptekainternetowa.net/_mdm_apteki/file/91466075395.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://shinies.ru/img/lib/file/91634356719.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.shamshabaddiocese.org/files/js/ckfinder/userfiles/files/jubetudagidomuwazagope.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://rebeccafantarchitetto.it/userfiles/files/pesigezeb.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://moma-restaurant.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1613bcce99b84b---nakewurisuzanulej.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://lookupagency.es/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16145ff5267033---gibuzafate.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ekhoron21.mn/uploads/files/76941266752.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://multi-accueil.fr/ressource/site-image/files/56053821031.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://donauwell.at/userfiles/file/91856097038.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://pinyardim.com/calisma2/files/uploads/57331718619.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://fairbank-ia.org/admin/ckfinder/userfiles/files/pogureboburos.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://watosaphotography.com/app/webroot/userfiles/files/20210903_185323.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://nepalbestcargo.com/userfiles/file/donanejudozu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://baconbites.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/n040okcaqvbp9jc8v09tko3ar7/11253555019.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://cbelmira.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/0fadde6f1185b04359b86207fb476da8/vugobosaduteget.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://1yunnan.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/2689363571.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://morganmethod.com/ci/userfiles/files/namotaketodarelokizawex.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_off0000d7a3.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xD7A3 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_01_sfnt_off0000efb5.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xEFB5 19012 bytes
SHA-256: ea18ca28816f9489992cd26635ffc53ce4c970305fa3cf73d7bf7de847754740
font_02_sfnt_off00012165.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x12165 10456 bytes
SHA-256: 949b680e646ca3dfed03661801bc4d2da191d58389263dc4b53746e6e7dde61f