Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 fd6ac113d8cee05a…

MALICIOUS

PDF

86.5 KB Created: 2021-09-23 06:53:39 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-11
MD5: 1ce532ee879d2ff3857e76a766246879 SHA-1: 0798c835fa9b77ec4306ec8535f3f9faa316fc5b SHA-256: fd6ac113d8cee05a02f5975ba1f386e854350538ba17e81c2c4e5187c496eca3
236 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment T1539 Steal or Harvest Session Tokens T1056.004 Web Browser

The PDF document was flagged by ML classifiers and ClamAV as malicious, exhibiting characteristics of phishing and MFA lure tactics. It presents a fake CAPTCHA or human verification prompt, designed to deceive users into performing actions that could lead to credential theft or session token harvesting. The embedded URLs, while many are benign or unknown, include links to compromised CMS uploads and disposable hosting, further supporting a malicious intent.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9974

Heuristics 8

  • ClamAV: Pdf.Phishing.Trojan-d2528dad23a95d95-d2528dad23a95d95-10044376-0 critical CLAMAV_DETECTION
    ClamAV detected this file as malware: Pdf.Phishing.Trojan-d2528dad23a95d95-d2528dad23a95d95-10044376-0
  • Fake CAPTCHA / human verification prompt high SE_FAKE_CAPTCHA
    Document displays a fake CAPTCHA or human-verification prompt — used to trick users into running commands or pressing keyboard shortcuts
  • 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://www.plan.msu.ac.th/ckfinder/userfiles/files/70953899666.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://rayhovietnam.vn/upload/files/tuzififetulufawujomokuta.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://lisahyatthealth.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16143dc0d07d71---79596457249.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://upnbkk.com/file_media/file_image/file/vugepomapo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://tinhhoaxanh.vn/userfiles/file/debureriviruzu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://adhdadvisory.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1613b9cad9824b---492521733.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://secoinblock.com/upload/files/96178758382.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://saraya-shop.ru/upload/files/2810767265.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://xingzhongjing.com/userfiles/file/20210911030732_821684301.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://bellamy.tw/uploads/files/202109011152456631.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://getsolarnj.com/userfiles/file/63620321694.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://audiohrestomatiya.ru/content/file/tonugimeba.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://gerastar.com/userfiles/file/6048860641.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://danieldesignpro.com/userfiles/22409278132.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://rsti.biz/files/fck/file/werumanepimomakek.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ecovn.vn/uploads/news_file/33110830087.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://storage-in-motion.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16138c1998575a---xirotine.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://gps-tw.com/CKEdit/upload/files/79679507905.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://agapetown.net/ckfinder/userfiles/files/vetinigejepozutejikile.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ccforum.kr/uploads/file/1631505339.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cuichi177.com/uploads/files/202109061000067631.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://praguynakorn.com/praguynakorn/picture/datapro/files/batuwoluraxulesupazirajim.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://gmart-express.com/demo/uploadpic/file/31082379351.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://futsalcb.cz/picture/vtextu/file/98200367863.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Uplcv/~3/zMnd8XtcwSM/uplcv?utm_term=hack+instagram+password+no+human+verificationPDF 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_off0000e9e2.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xE9E2 11356 bytes
SHA-256: fea74c8d9cb328e90ae098538ee39fbb6ada6f0b74c519a1893d16be426a6f99
font_01_sfnt_off00010457.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x10457 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_02_sfnt_off00011c69.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x11C69 17572 bytes
SHA-256: 7b49d7383871375afe47fcdf3c3afa2a639f93085a28c4fac43712b38080e20a