Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 18b5a99762402455…

MALICIOUS

PDF

90.7 KB Created: 2021-09-02 11:52:11 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-07
MD5: 6e6fa58dd8680fe2470b1cc8fa1a0e21 SHA-1: 6fa226fb146bb2edc5150f3246141f1676d4b23b SHA-256: 18b5a99762402455156129df6fb7323e18a793fa23ba7407239c5761636095b2
196 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment T1203 Exploitation for Client Execution T1190 Exploit Public-Facing Application

The PDF document exhibits characteristics of a phishing lure, as indicated by the 'SE_REMOTE_SUPPORT_LURE' heuristic and numerous external links hosted on compromised websites. The presence of ClamAV detection and ML classification further supports its malicious nature. The document likely exploits vulnerabilities or tricks the user into downloading a secondary payload, potentially via embedded JavaScript, to achieve its objective.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9979

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
  • Remote-support tool lure high SE_REMOTE_SUPPORT_LURE
    Document instructs the user to install, open, or connect with a remote-support tool such as AnyDesk, TeamViewer, Quick Assist, or ScreenConnect — high-risk in an unsolicited document
  • 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://queure.ru/uplcv?utm_term=planswift+9+tutorials+pdf PDF link annotation
    • https://www.corridar.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/ihqifkghkraf9sqf50uoi2la43/lujejeredopujejazojezijad.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://fortlauderdale-carservice.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609aa046100bf---xadapiraminixewu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://thaimassagemodel.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/fenetikiginabexenunozogi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://yuanjen.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/kowipemajanijiruzag.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://sancarspune.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/c3c49af4139d933f7865b861764c18f4/gibibematakafa.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.alertgy.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/9779db567040bf2b2a049b68f4ec5824/97784998901.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://saintarseny.ca/sites/saintarseny.ca/files/file/bozunajufa.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.myhhsi.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/fc8edb10be0ade65fc31e448ca8c4546/disumozenidudadizu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://duoctruongxuan.vn/userfiles/image/file/pamiviguxokumuv.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://kolodezrus.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/382736b34b9402070d0a66ce0a4e7900/lumulidoxulusewu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://naturallabs.fr/userfiles/file/tepijutujizuvaziwebukuji.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://wrtour.com/FileData/ckfinder/files/20210604_4B437135277E0E33.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://madiagranitosilano.it/userfiles/files/47756333347.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.denisonlandscaping.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608ff171f0087---49761417563.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.hungarianassociation.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608219c7b6bfe---paduwelubemej.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://spc1991.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/zegetutujupepi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://sharzh-ufa.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/f2300b239e50620a71752cc1bb07a9d1/70091878115.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://aduanaldelvalle.com/userfiles/file/giretisafusuza.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.fishandcosolicitors.com/uploads/files/gomat.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://mxagproducts.com/upload/browse/file/dazipunizakub.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://fixmyhelicopter.com/project-new/christianbook/upload_images/file/xawifapunewugogu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://accessibilite-salle-eau.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/39911741841.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_off0000fa2a.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xFA2A 10712 bytes
SHA-256: 272bcda75a6f6b6e96e2744a14a7eded4de2d19367c4297f56a8f90e0ad5646c
font_01_sfnt_off000112f7.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x112F7 18524 bytes
SHA-256: 69235ef25bb56ea9b415a5bb3fb4e0567772217de4d328b0797a2030b953bb64
font_02_sfnt_off00014391.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x14391 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1