Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 f499d80372c39426…

MALICIOUS

PDF

81.1 KB Created: 2021-09-21 17:20:53 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-11
MD5: dcffc2b223247b6391475aa831cd7295 SHA-1: 4b6c9d5279cd0701be17f5bcc1b26221263ef68f SHA-256: f499d80372c3942606374380a149d5db642b54d5c5285571712efc34e7ccfbcf
196 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF document exhibits characteristics of a credential harvesting lure, specifically targeting multi-factor authentication (MFA) or one-time codes. The presence of numerous links to potentially compromised or disposable hosting sites, coupled with the ML classifier and ClamAV detection, strongly indicates malicious intent. While no scripts were extracted, the document's structure and heuristic firings point towards a phishing attack designed to steal user credentials.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9846

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://adtw1.elfjane.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/subikemoj.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://braintradingbcn.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/02ef992f65db391e3e01f521e186874d/4790446129.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://phase1acoustics.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16142f1bc56fcc---berizoru.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://peggylittlelawoffice.com/customer/3/d/9/3d947ad6ce2568d98b832ccf5548371bFile/357652582.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://sp2wronki.pl/fotki/fotki/file/kifabusoveb.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://zhjpharm.com/upload/files/13911609316.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://holland-ex.com/images/blog/file/refivikiz.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://librojuridico.com/aym_images/files/sujomibox.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://boras-sjuharad.boj.se/uploads/userfiles/files/92839983011.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://lnimeina.it/userfiles/files/17524079167.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://firesystem.ro/imagini_ws/7945274885.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://domilot.com/uploader/files/puzanone.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://mothertheresapublicschool.com/userfiles/file/61323933305.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://josepholszowka.com/customer/3/d/9/3d947ad6ce2568d98b832ccf5548371bFile/27775246310.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://paglialonga.it/userfiles/files/25518516738.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://dorapeyzaj.com/userfiles/file/gosuzuke.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://acudrved.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/7691889777.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://verlauf-ekb.ru/admin/ckfinder/userfiles/files/jugoremadigidosujasafat.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://xn--80aaaaadfwa5aftjhxrkcrg8iwc.xn--p1ai/pict/file/20111771274.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://autosvilar.com/uploads/ckfinder/files/vikatawerubabazov.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://drainscovers.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/7cf6f9b1b86b9d324915bf814e369d6c/47630253369.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://drticket.ir/basefile/drtiketcom/files/38636501244.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://anm-av.de/uploads/files/dekaximipevipegom.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://lepetitjaunais.com/userfiles/file/girug.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://alnadaoil.com/userfiles/file/kivuzegonefowugivigiguvan.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://starinviter.com/ckimagefiles/nomuzujevosugi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/skout/mBVl/~3/GLLx1DTH0VQ/uplcv?utm_term=gta+5+apk+mobile+free+downloadPDF 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_off0000d9d6.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xD9D6 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_01_sfnt_off0000f1e8.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF1E8 16836 bytes
SHA-256: 0ad45ee663007b9d92c29f738d93f9d3c23bdeb07bf9c4bb197e2b734580409d
font_02_sfnt_off00011da7.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x11DA7 10980 bytes
SHA-256: e4f6a8285d3523cb4fa358bdc61f902967bd477af2ce7cf761494d65466ff12b