Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 af6f3d84d25c64d8…

MALICIOUS

PDF

88.6 KB Created: 2021-07-24 01:41:56 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-24
MD5: 987a66d21a51f8f6af824c3864ffd387 SHA-1: b56c7e53726a7ffb407c3f19e33c4d74f149a04a SHA-256: af6f3d84d25c64d8521f858099ec5cf7a72ed846c2293127a987496ff28d62ed
196 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

This PDF document was flagged by multiple heuristics as malicious, including a specific ML classifier and ClamAV detection. The 'SE_MFA_LURE' heuristic indicates the document is designed to harvest credentials or abuse multi-factor authentication. Numerous URLs were extracted, many pointing to compromised WordPress sites hosting PDF files, suggesting a phishing campaign.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9985

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://www.adler-leitishofen.de/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160b3b6bd8bf2c---migetapafulitazetadutimi.pdf In PDF document text
    • https://skyfireconsulting.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/p363hg0671sbh87odr7efidqhp/fedixatagalovapedo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.reroofingbrisbaneqld.com.au/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160c48177d10c5---kiwukolorubupakopab.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://nikken-engineer.jp/export/sd205/www/jp/r/e/gmoserver/8/6/sd0748886/nikken-engineer.jp/fckeditor/upload/file/98909747603.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://groupunsur1.com/contents//files/levirotaxiwokozas.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.demetagras.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16075e26206d2c---nisasadevugoxefawebe.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://jclifeschools.org/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/dcf0163e69075254408183415ae1424c/24141688486.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://christianboudreau.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160b21d5d33584---fufupegefubofavovudu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://altelaw.com/uploads/image/file/nibutosugamimipo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://jesssmithtri.com/jesssmith/ckfinder/userfiles/files/19062534128.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://bhttourist.com/upload/fckimagesfile/81811165538.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.sg-callenberg.de/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160d68e462a55b---52098195850.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://gresathouse.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/20e5bffee1148c56f4bf645226a6b706/fisupetob.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://kopdesign.nl/userfiles/file/bamomole.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://sewakendragroup.com/userfiles/file/42974470882.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://melissajacksonmd.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607393bc4c23e---44366489509.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://csc-028.com/userfiles/file/20210720083107_4i9zn2.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://fotostudiovaccari.it/userfiles/files/kepopojetofivawapab.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://vizzzio.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/de5458d2a6546ef297bedcaea45bbaaf/jozogebapa.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://alphacleanwashing.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/669279390dd25fc4dc079b383f222ba1/87054012323.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.marsagri.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a0d9c9eb3ee---42171182277.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://hollywoodterrace.org/clients/863344/File/60811853361.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/skout/mBVl/~3/PmAiG5ZyT-k/uplcv?utm_term=how+to+roll+back+update+on+macPDF 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_off0000f541.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF541 17432 bytes
SHA-256: 22aee46be830d00c4aa67bb7fa73f02f9925828c4fa4ad9e9c7932d3b9b9fe3a
font_01_sfnt_off00012281.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x12281 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_02_sfnt_off00013a98.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x13A98 10824 bytes
SHA-256: 5c8ee25a511338c43dc1f7f59c6626f91452b573767d77e60dbbc3e365f78a33