Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 c6e0dc73a632daa0…

MALICIOUS

PDF

86.4 KB Created: 2021-09-21 08:53:28 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-24
MD5: bdc3e758926690046157028d5ba71672 SHA-1: ef203a41b3a2df61d30aaaefb168c4c40d35baf1 SHA-256: c6e0dc73a632daa06ba779b80937f749b3662768140fb2b2ce9378ae0197b9e8
224 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

This PDF document is classified as malicious by ML models and ClamAV, exhibiting characteristics of a phishing lure. It contains numerous links to external PDF files hosted on potentially compromised or disposable domains, suggesting a link farm designed to obscure the ultimate destination. The presence of an MFA lure heuristic indicates the document likely attempts to harvest credentials or session tokens by tricking the user into approving a fraudulent authentication request.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9974

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
  • Visual download / call-to-action button lure low SE_DOWNLOAD_BUTTON
    Document contains a call-to-action phrase ('Click here to download', 'Download Now', etc.) — low-signal unless other findings point to a malicious workflow
  • 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://gostium.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16130741a6963e---supuvaxiva.pdf In PDF document text
    • https://divinenine.net/userfiles/file/banibiwas.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://advicezone.org.uk/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/aqpcs2l0in59g43jj415cprjrr/98385787219.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://diarch.in/WYSIWYGImage/file/toluzovokavokisoguritire.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://teusz.pl/UserFiles/file/tipivevotukewepupoju.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://bluebirdcanada.com/FileData/ckfinder/files/20210921_7734907007E2D7C1.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://standsimulator.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/kitudazafot.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://bacsionline.net/userfiles/file/62771547831.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://kfnmsz.com/upfolder/e/files/20210909110207.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://presstone.hu/userfiles/file/40132708586.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://equipelec.fr/ckfinder/userfiles/files/fujubezowodaruwibabe.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.fullertherapy.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16149537e37870---88856725792.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://takipcisec.com/calisma2/files/uploads/pezoduzidizizutuwokarabox.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://for-rent-leuven.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1613953840765f---wutuzironivevezigoxuzaza.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://cbelmira.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/243f8130b2d7e4e1fb556819ff866e50/94813040229.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://vevo.keresztessyoptika.hu/elemek/file/79292631599.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://taiwanquinoafamily.com/shopadmin/upload/files/rexazavinusexorazo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://thainightjob.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/43527137188.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://bosingels.nl/ckfinder/userfiles/files/44160796682.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://abbeytraining.net/userfiles/file/57383960444.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://rjbmachinery.com/d/files/moxuwonisowix.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://saveursetsavoirs.fr/image/file/3985453356.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://maxitelt.no/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1614000633ca59---vipavituj.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://hunghiephuylog.com/upload/files/gewumuwofor.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/1eyvgo/aqOO/~3/LPIa9PGmDLg/uplcv?utm_term=how+to+share+photos+from+iphone+via+bluetoothPDF 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_off0000e919.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xE919 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_01_sfnt_off00010130.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x10130 11008 bytes
SHA-256: 4663ea693406538a5c6e09f584fc4ab98fd2cd9660e60bd5cab14cd18d18de36
font_02_sfnt_off00011a60.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x11A60 18924 bytes
SHA-256: 794a72b8770c1bae00d0f67f1f63321388e8f0b572ab1dc52d760f85176270e5