Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 d20c3c9d9c8a6abe…

MALICIOUS

PDF

69.0 KB Created: 2021-06-21 03:21:08 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7) First seen: 2021-10-07
MD5: 062b6517deef4676829eeab90a2c69fe SHA-1: 5b06aa8fcf8e7534857061087091865d91bac876 SHA-256: d20c3c9d9c8a6abe9bf2833daa80ed96090b2d3baf0c7be0bf5f4121d78d9778
196 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF file was detected as malicious by ML classifiers and ClamAV, and it contains heuristics indicating it's a lure for credential harvesting or MFA abuse. The document body, though truncated, suggests a technical pretext for the lure. Multiple URLs point to compromised websites or link farms, likely serving as part of the phishing infrastructure.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9998

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://strechybenesov.cz/content/podamazoliwo.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://xn--80aaeiengkwpz6p.xn--p1ai/pub/file/zuvagijukosusizuji.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://chrisdepanneservices.fr/Sites/cds/files/sepitevinix.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://otdelkamos.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/b6755789f52537c58e444e985d049fa8/65580648546.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://leo-translate.com.ua/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16098b9a22cb83---35788495360.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.advokat.com/app/webroot/img/fck/file/79679643638.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://klingende-zeder.de/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160b4e5011f6e3---13228741448.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://oneself.pro/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16098eced78adc---wefuzijawofegazoweladu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://taxiparga.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/040eea8cbb02759844ad80ea629d3f2f/zutafubekijetajis.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://smartvoicecom.com/userfiles/sotuzivumisuwinena.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://californiaoptionsrealestate.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/02b27bd714f8ec65f834b776155ff445/63133180216.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://christianboudreau.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160b6a7c2e41f6---tikovemesokijesemetajojez.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://yastudio.net/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/b410bca78ce18e449daee264e265d297/jibewenadutavozoroma.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://suhrsmad.dk/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608195815918f---kibunigo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/In PDF document text
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/typedesigners.htmlIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/skout/mBVl/~3/BvfzZFkJO3s/uplcv?utm_term=how+to+factory+reset+kwikset+smartcode+909PDF link annotation
    • http://s292376414.onlinehome.fr/datas/imgmail/file/81398617972.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://scripts.sil.org/OFLIn PDF document text

Extracted artifacts 2

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
font_00_sfnt_off0000c9f6.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xC9F6 5652 bytes
SHA-256: 812a75f8ee522c6895eba4368de377abae1781a0e42d63638dfa7db03db89d46
font_01_sfnt_off0000dd38.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xDD38 12128 bytes
SHA-256: ba2d4cceef5ad6f1724b0a5b27b8a39c30f9ada35c0164bef01764ed76d6844c