Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 d9923ddf016bbbb0…

MALICIOUS

PDF

88.5 KB Created: 2021-09-20 22:35:27 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-12
MD5: 3c7d18ad3c280e64f87d1ebe0b50165a SHA-1: 2a0245000d9efa7e6717e4f317056705dc6a9c10 SHA-256: d9923ddf016bbbb0fe363295e0d84b5cbbe2b7029be3319b74dcd9be08655f56
204 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment T1555 Credentials from Password Stores

This PDF file was detected as malicious by ClamAV and an ML classifier, exhibiting characteristics of a phishing lure. The embedded JavaScript and external URIs suggest an attempt to redirect the user to a credential harvesting page, likely disguised as an MFA or one-time code confirmation. The document body itself is heavily obfuscated and appears to be metadata from the wkhtmltopdf tool rather than user-readable content.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9948

Heuristics 8

  • 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.
  • Embedded JS stream low PDF_JS
    PDF references a /JS stream. Generic JavaScript is common in benign forms; specific dangerous APIs are scored by separate rules.
  • 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://irlanc.ru/uplcv?utm_term=free+premium+minecraft+java+account PDF link annotation
    • http://www.shjkyq.com/up_files/FCK/file/vonivop.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ablerexthailand.com/userfiles/files/limerazetoxebedogopo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://mumegram.com/userfiles/file/38073812291.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://timatey.kz/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/clk5h805nqbq5ds89mt0t96s56/42424218575.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://dreamscapes.ca/dream_scapes/userfiles/files/67201549587.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://pazzo.jp/js/upload/files/76202978958.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://2018.letnifestiwal.pl/ckfinder/userfiles/files/95072176625.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://oralrem.kz/ckfinder/userfiles/files/59560822160.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://gamepinleri.net/calisma2/files/uploads/dipepetuda.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://mimpishio1.com/contents/files/midawimimubid.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://robotsuk.com/luckingbros.co.uk/userfiles/files/17379377827.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://yilip.net/userData/board/file/laxeg.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://lesbambousbleus.fr/ckeditor/upload/files/zonoturunek.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://aukshanya.promosing.com/alpha/ckfinder/userfiles/files/punoku.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://computer-rudolstadt.de/upload/file/wajidagajoluda.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://serpavenger.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/fimozuwudox.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ontheedgeofnow.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/161385444670d1---64336613631.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ecef-groupe.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/nl51ivbb542heiv8vlfmcuqfh6/sudoxosigoduneduva.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://goldenteriyaki.com/uploads/files/jemonumasuv.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://yipdeals.com/app/webroot/upload/files/40363518550.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://nickels.design/ckfinder/userfiles/files/58437804536.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://jnmindia.com/outscapes/admin/ckeditor/uploads/ck/files/kovopoveza.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://futimisdev.com/userfiles/file/99975010595.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://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_off0000f115.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF115 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_01_sfnt_off0001092c.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x1092C 10700 bytes
SHA-256: 9a21ca12d3bb955ab55b98d17ff1cb64601d8ebffd176e62e81a3fdd33cea33d
font_02_sfnt_off000121a8.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x121A8 19460 bytes
SHA-256: 5eefa9b7f637b098e937da49e6046e3d41d4a1e56053bb3e7e62e71192d7f15b