Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 befd2c1e6bc71338…

MALICIOUS

PDF

79.6 KB Created: 2021-09-06 19:02:43 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-07
MD5: 3ca60961e5e9c92eee4e433b61e2da5d SHA-1: d1b72aee594665147717e57aa532632875320f1f SHA-256: befd2c1e6bc7133830627f908f447b6a781c9f3b40d8d3c4997a05a4a92be4e3
196 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The file was detected as malicious by ClamAV and an ML classifier, and exhibits characteristics of a credential phishing lure. Specifically, it attempts to harvest MFA codes or session tokens, a common tactic for account takeover. The numerous embedded URLs point to compromised CMS upload storage, suggesting a distribution infrastructure for such phishing documents.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9917

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 http://andlupa.com/userfiles/file/21675084892.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://niestachow.pl/data/aktualnosci_imgs/file/26352872902.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://dossalas.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/90735a40a5b13faa822376d5f9301557/misema.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://kicksomeglass.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/6d271d5ed90162266e7b04ae92b2e309/dixufi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://golf-tout-terrain.com/publish/page/file/75701417197.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://kasargod.net/uploads/file/92608395869.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://2greenchicks.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/3859cefb68e6cf9efb7d46513eb64084/97717613376.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://moodyhighclassof70reunion.com/clients/2/24/24f6aee67edc386a60746049a176a33b/File/fadododitibotu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.focus.mu/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/ad153cace5d762d1f50d780aa69a8a64/dopelatewusegisa.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://freemansphotography.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1612944761a6ca---39698348360.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://baxsporthorses.com/userfiles/file/jeluposetototozawafosozug.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://arerp.kr/data/file///35027668890.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://thegioidongphuc.net/ckfinder/userfiles/files/91336070321.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://taiwan-casters.com/userfiles/file/39037745598.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.moyekolodin.com/files/57289104212.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://rolmech-strzelno.pl/Upload/file/wekazawiraderi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://m-isc.com/userfiles/file/45712693403.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://flex-link.cn/uploadfiles/files/xubugegotuxuvulilemo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://useoneconvo.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/0c298bef502c61ac0decb42789095640/45279572991.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://alianzatours.com/imagenes/file/61623100521.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://dentherapia.hu/files/file/joramaxisenalifafo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://orig-shop-gsm.ro/ckfinder/userfiles/files/47554386645.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://go-trec.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/p572sqk9a2se2ujvp4mrarhg0j/rekexu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://lapalettedesarts.fr/gestion/file/42481599669.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.ddd-iasi.ro/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160843e7a87a68---tezekajoka.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://emanuelarombiarchitetto.eu/userfiles/files/vowes.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/1eyvgo/aqOO/~3/LPIa9PGmDLg/uplcv?utm_term=crb+clearance+form+pdfPDF 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_off0000d1a5.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xD1A5 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_01_sfnt_off0000e9b7.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xE9B7 18268 bytes
SHA-256: 45309a59863cdb936ce57ddc95c908901f6bc998c29448710917cff29e7798df
font_02_sfnt_off0001189e.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x1189E 10592 bytes
SHA-256: b4abbf9d7836127307ff7941864645f138ad46e96c50ef76cd18c4c2ffc44ba5