Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 d535a25587fc9e7e…

MALICIOUS

PDF

83.3 KB Created: 2021-09-13 05:05:56 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-14
MD5: d23a497f5f4372bf209621482ec19e7c SHA-1: dad44bfa189ef4f6f5bfaab4ab117d22b1814ae9 SHA-256: d535a25587fc9e7e3637dddac5a5d7eac0dff18960027b7ce379a5bc0b350621
166 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The sample is identified as malicious by ClamAV and an ML classifier, with heuristics indicating it's a phishing lure designed to harvest credentials or session tokens. The PDF contains numerous embedded URLs, many pointing to potentially malicious PDF files, suggesting a link farm used for phishing. While no scripts were explicitly extracted, the nature of the lure and the embedded URLs strongly suggest an attempt to trick users into a credential-harvesting scenario.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9977

Heuristics 6

  • 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
  • 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://khocabien.com/uploads/files/mogerajaxatogevawasaxa.pdf In PDF document text
    • https://terrebleue.org/userfiles/file/tisedanipufukefowawofum.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://doctmcooper.com/userfiles/files/78133181699.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://alutat.com/data/file/xelofowiw.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://mandalaconfeccao.com.br/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16134cea88e08f---77950882948.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.papelerialapiceros.es/ckfinder/userfiles/files/31238794036.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://matstravel.ru/userfiles/file/bodon.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://rheinfurth.de/userfiles/file/tikofekun.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://studiotecnicodambra.eu/userfiles/files/pasitipitamov.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://consulcongress.it/uploads/assets/file/76399418690.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://aedjtjdshbf.pretty-match.com/upload/files/sejiju.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://thuexe7cho.vn/upload/files/jagow.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://hohsingfiber.com/ufiles/files/dadexuwudegigokolexubuka.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://burragebrothers.net/demo/jolie/beta/userfiles/files/17873535144.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://elitakhealing.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/18786245435.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://jtravel.clickis.kr/FileData/ckfinder/files/20210908_2FAEDA3A13BD5269.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://dichvutot99.com/webroot/img/files/61496848772.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://rux-thai.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/lojezepofuw.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://bunny888.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/98851589171.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://xn--80akoseq9f.xn--p1ai/userfiles/file/supamekogaguwemikezili.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ayurveda-shiatsu-qigong-nice.com/upload/files/56895099857.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://location-appartement-venise.com/italie_documents/files/welogexofobus.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://fmi.lu/userfiles/files/69030227682.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/skout/mBVl/~3/BkSY9tpko7c/uplcv?utm_term=android+hacked+app+storePDF 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_off0000e163.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xE163 10640 bytes
SHA-256: d1b60f604e5473d54e37924913ff206d36ef92f09dd1932154aa5a758a2dd3e0
font_01_sfnt_off0000f9ba.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF9BA 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_02_sfnt_off000111cc.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x111CC 17752 bytes
SHA-256: 1905f181b7554a4cca079bb0acce25feac89f018422019c67ab89d1ff5f86214