Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 ea03435c8f309fdb…

MALICIOUS

PDF

76.0 KB Created: 2021-09-18 15:33:47 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-27
MD5: e631dd016bb10f9a8e00a2d23a3b9504 SHA-1: 761c7df3f7a088f4dd8bf979b31ead1a13f85fdc SHA-256: ea03435c8f309fdb9bc4df16ba325d15e9a81ace3c27bff0dcd23b193ad296f0
166 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment T1566.002 Spearphishing Link T1190 Exploit Public-Facing Application

This PDF file was flagged by a machine learning classifier and ClamAV as malicious, specifically as a phishing trojan. The heuristic 'SE_MFA_LURE' indicates the document is designed to harvest credentials by requesting multi-factor authentication or one-time codes. While no scripts were explicitly extracted, the presence of numerous external links, some pointing to potentially disposable domains, suggests a phishing campaign aiming to redirect users to credential harvesting pages. The document body is heavily obfuscated and appears to be generated content rather than user-readable text.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9973

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://eurolocal.info/sites/default/files/images/file/fodipepames.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://architettipassarinmarzotto.com/userfiles/files/45159765312.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://keongracun.org/contents/files/56563024822.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://folientastaturen.pl/_data/file/sifazadoxigumuwalirez.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://color-gateway.com/userfiles/file/zikulovopobaboxipejij.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://lnianemarzenie.pl/userfiles/file/lozexobakanabuwosoxim.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://hzeiger.com/userfiles/file/35311316230.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://namuvaldymas.lt/userfiles/file/48307879.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.cuerpomenteyespiritu.es/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1613099e8d627f---gidogorebukibonifu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://veterinariogiardinelli.it/userfiles/files/20099206856.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://guchen.ru/d/files/55214497598.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://richardchong.com/userfiles/files/70999492026.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://bharatiyabhashaparishad.org/ckfinder/userfiles/files/segexisijesatiwobizerozo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://theeultimatenetworker.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/70857743748.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://phuclocvienjsc.com/uploads/image/files/72129862023.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://gasasosong.com/upload/fckeditor/file/99129262816.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://hndgyl.com/v15/Upload/file/20219618261510.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://markyatirim.com/resimler/files/bazanib.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://gibisch.info/files/files/difazukota.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ranchobg.com/img/file/92089815681.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://vaitinhdien.com/app/webroot/upload/files/21710526687.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://indiachristian.org/uploads/files/pezale.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://kvartira-zalog.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/3ab93eba36a868610b687cced74f018d/kolegukifo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/1eyvgo/aqOO/~3/1KS0DP0cxss/uplcv?utm_term=download+minecraft+java+edition+for+free+for+androidPDF link annotation
    • http://perfecturology.cafe24.com/upload/editor/imagefile/fuzovafigugu.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_off0000c586.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xC586 10752 bytes
SHA-256: 3c1b3f8d576c5084047796a25e8b08c2dccdc5b49df5295c925d0882f2b789bd
font_01_sfnt_off0000de2f.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xDE2F 16832 bytes
SHA-256: 680b06535f86f17b4b40c6023b2c7d95c8f4851e98fe8523802f2fbd5c29a5e2
font_02_sfnt_off000109d4.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x109D4 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1