Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 e01bf855c2f40299…

MALICIOUS

PDF

92.0 KB Created: 2021-09-15 16:49:42 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-23
MD5: daca55977b7254cccdecdcc92ae2f28f SHA-1: c148d03d496aa75cc4076ad7cb2950ea5f3cedf0 SHA-256: e01bf855c2f40299c5c41f6a8b82e63b762452467e067d5e1e4c5d144d90886c
196 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment T1539 Steal Application Data

This PDF document was flagged by ML classifiers and ClamAV as malicious, specifically as a phishing lure. The heuristic 'SE_MFA_LURE' indicates the document is designed to trick users into providing one-time codes or MFA approvals, consistent with credential harvesting. The numerous embedded URLs point to various compromised or disposable hosting sites, likely serving as part of a link farm to obscure the ultimate destination.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9935

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 http://qlionshousing.ca/userfiles/file/7025873858.pdf In PDF document text
    • https://kirmatas.com/userfiles/file/89419251866.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ctners.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/912243744.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://marketingnews.fr/images/file/29476612406.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://lollanaclinic.com/image/upload/File/sisopa.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://signexpowholesale.com/project-new/christianbook/upload_images/file/44065288941.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://friluftsgruppen.se/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/161352c9d8bdd0---falenibawifi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://businesslife.com/content/file/gegufisojovoluzinut.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://astoriareiki.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/fa4b516250007945637474ea10d3891a/98625090068.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.peritaonline.es/ckfinder/userfiles/files/1307064829.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://vasekurzy.cz/userfiles/file/butezojarurub.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://weilmclainboiler.ca/fck_upload/file/sezenukeluvonaw.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://bergfin.se/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1612f279e1eebc---71797156853.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://milcontabil.com.br/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/uu038oubos661n5k6oorii27v4/rejagukezibudekodizikowuj.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://rainternacional.com/userfiles/file/varevobapajuwexekef.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://mudraconsultancy.com/uploads/files/59500436730.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://adtw1.elfjane.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/banolopabulik.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://glass-haus.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/5ca0983e313e40b3c17a2c323e64b269/64512416428.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://imailbox.nl/images/uploadedimages/file/sikikelosebokowip.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://netinflux.net/userfiles/file/vazaresigazo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://sergeca.com.ve/ckfinder/userfiles/files/79654505257.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://orvosvalaszto.hu/uploads/files/xikenegepapavozoreganux.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://coeb.eu/userfiles/files/11639318367.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://na-nule.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/r4k4dsq14hop8t70rrf42fh4f7/pivufinuposaduz.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Uplcv/~3/6naE_Nh8_CY/uplcv?utm_term=install+android+apps+on+pcPDF 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_off000105bb.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x105BB 17652 bytes
SHA-256: 143e172cea58bb42ae832096ee2ab167e6f1de34758fc2c39700e95d6b03c8a1
font_01_sfnt_off0001333f.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x1333F 10328 bytes
SHA-256: a88f567af5a565c0d6629248e6b13d429d5d6d77399cfd7a3caa60380f77466c
font_02_sfnt_off00014a99.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x14A99 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1