Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 f21969017b1994ab…

MALICIOUS

PDF

102.1 KB Created: 2021-07-30 19:19:29 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-05
MD5: 9d467ee3f4e8d3acac2f21bf0fc2f8cc SHA-1: 117554166af8c4792baaf2ecd86b430fe2607900 SHA-256: f21969017b1994ab36942688d1544cc015f84d5835a6533d54f921c18428e963
196 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF contains numerous links to compromised websites and disposable hosting, indicating a link farm designed to distribute malicious content. The 'SE_MFA_LURE' heuristic strongly suggests the document is designed to harvest credentials by mimicking MFA or one-time code prompts. While no scripts were directly extracted, the PDF structure and link farm behavior are consistent with phishing lures.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9974

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://crysiq.ru/uplcv?utm_term=similitudes+y+diferencias+entre+fermentacion+lactica+y+alcoholica PDF link annotation
    • http://tcsm62.org/uploads/news/file/10788826127.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.stockholmswingallstars.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a5307438acf---pewogifenadaxoxenepoj.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://xo-sound.ru/userfiles/file/dewuwaso.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.auditek.fr/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608ec41882bdd---ruvozumanis.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://adamlegal.com/userfiles/file/pidubisedigaruped.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://makaifruits.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16094c76421f7a---voxigudijafujuvodewip.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.olivier-frey.ch/user/web/file/4254713103.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://baharemadinah.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160c7c2cb4f7f1---77859878005.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://deedpoll.sg/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/7deee56a988f19a2c3f4da382c1a3a6a/rewasujodib.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://beetsom.com/PROGRAM_FCKeditor_UserFiles/file/131159290960dc91f58a3b0.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://pulsarvn.com/media/ftp/file/72492376736.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://sosonomo.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/tuzidirigumerexukonuduf.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://limpiasol.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a2c397cbd54---xugemizaxet.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.kissdocs.com.au/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160700d20e7d1e---24121559195.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://medicinasolidale.org/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/707b98af760e9851ce0e61237f59aa2f/bapaxitilinuxomosesira.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://xn--80adj7cxa.xn--p1ai/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/14aea42db47dca1a37d85ac15629a0ca/89423224898.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://volamtuyetthe.com/userfiles/file/judixak.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://robertmatzuzi-massagetherapist.co.uk/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16070111279482---555352206.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://autoscuolecasetta.it/userfiles/files/24937507177.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://sisparts.pl/zdjecia/fck/file/gutofugomafiw.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://brainbond.ro/userfiles/file/52049285417.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://okuninka-biale.pl/userfiles/file/lajozodunebekawovuv.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://client-sms.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/kugemijefadero.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_off000123b9.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x123B9 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_01_sfnt_off00013bcb.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x13BCB 19908 bytes
SHA-256: 11a7ec9ad93195aadbde599c27b7284d2a70e28e81651f8e020e395baa16e8a3
font_02_sfnt_off00016f5a.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x16F5A 11028 bytes
SHA-256: d6ded54ed0f247b0335b4745665bdfa6d81bbce7124a8236f4ba9aac227675cc