Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 c2787e024fa81d38…

MALICIOUS

PDF

79.2 KB Created: 2021-09-10 19:33:47 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-24
MD5: 362602147c867d6b5761022e5cdf79f3 SHA-1: a430a8fe5786a436f585c7599ede577f5bfa5664 SHA-256: c2787e024fa81d38656fb7da2160ba05b1fb1e51f78e1b2ec4433f32cdaee097
196 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment T1539 Steal or Forge Credentials

This PDF file was flagged by multiple heuristics, including a critical ClamAV detection for 'Pdf.Phishing.Trojan'. The 'SE_MFA_LURE' heuristic strongly suggests the document is designed to harvest credentials by mimicking a multi-factor authentication or one-time code prompt. The numerous embedded URLs, many hosted on compromised or disposable domains, likely serve as part of a link farm to obscure the true destination or to distribute the phishing lure.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9953

Heuristics 7

  • 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.
  • 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://cobmedia.hu/include/44914311965.pdf In PDF document text
    • https://naseeha.org/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/d5161921c2a45fc822bbd3bfa20c81fe/zutopofuxalukile.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://hattrick-sports.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16138875eb726f---8027221967.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://karpatskiles.ru/store/file/8830266774.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://lawyergz.net/uploadfile/files/muvugikalunesuwizexovawu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://hak-al.com/resimler/files/26217543720.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://frutapac.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/96465777847.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://bodymason.com/user_uploads/files/21709998197.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://lirealestatelitigator.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/7e06960b391c5753b03d8a6ff5804573/72995702650.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://aktien-analyse.de/images/File/85703798194.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://fobh.net/userfiles/files/nevukenumefopiropag.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://educasters.co/ckfinder/userfiles/files/45379931334.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://hz-kontejnery.cz/ckfinder/userfiles/files/40785766525.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://balticstroy.com/uploads/files/roxov.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://evo-models.com/uploads/userfiles/files/33040063189.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.baileysmilk.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/082f2aadefbb8d593117203bda9b7ffe/42208598014.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://martensmgt.com/business_school/uploads/file/riwilar.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://argumentua.com/i/file/29928948606.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.gml.de/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16132c8b0af9db---38360213782.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://orthodoxvaidikasanghom.org/userfiles/file/40617309534.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://dribblebar.pl/userfiles/file/novasajizo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://maximaviajes.com/FCKfiles/file/45427817504.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://transchem-tech.com/Uploadfiles/files/6611076646.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://panificioilcavaliere.it/userfiles/files/mirinobegolovax.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/1eyvgo/aqOO/~3/YTWXjIUwRh0/uplcv?utm_term=apple+airdrop+to+androidPDF 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_off0000d59c.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xD59C 16664 bytes
SHA-256: c7c0dd64c266d15f53606fd15cb69224bbe0802c16c66e5a7199bba2bf8b6796
font_01_sfnt_off00010082.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x10082 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_02_sfnt_off00011899.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x11899 10196 bytes
SHA-256: f3166a3c3351aed7d72f6a21e2a97f9dfdf1ade796933d3016a804b080341049