Evince PDF links disabling login ability to the followed URL

I'm experiencing a strange behaviour when using corporate PDF documents and trying to follow links:

1. PDFs comes by email (using Thunderbird)
2. I open it directly from the attachment, with Evince
3. PDF has internal links that point me to our corporate website and this requires logging in to access content
4. Once clicked in PDF, it opens Google Chrome (my default browser) and ... once the user and password dialogue appears, the keyboard does not work. I cannot enter credentials.

If I right-click the link in PDF and copy the URL, then paste it in manually open chrome, it works without any problems.

I checked if downloading the document to the disk first, and then opening it locally (not directly from the Thunderbird) helps, but still, it does not: it opens a browser, asks to log in on my corporate website and login dialogue box won't let me type anything there.

BTW - the login type is an NT challenge/response type (the targer server is IIS), not the one embedded in the HTML page, it pops up.

Any help is appreciated.