Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 1c07836ad0a7f06e…

MALICIOUS

PDF

84.4 KB Created: 2021-06-13 08:54:04 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7) First seen: 2021-10-05
MD5: f29c949a89562ba8209666b4bb2f825d SHA-1: d73221c8e4685cbdb4684ebdfb9bb49cff58b598 SHA-256: 1c07836ad0a7f06ec053782d0699b35ba3b82f338702d9cf0b879a1024e1e662
196 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment T1203 Exploitation for Client Execution T1059.007 JavaScript T1071.001 Web Protocols

This PDF document contains numerous links to compromised WordPress sites, likely serving as a link farm for malicious downloads. The 'Remote-support tool lure' heuristic indicates the document's content is designed to trick users into installing remote access software. The ML classifier and ClamAV detection strongly suggest malicious intent, likely to facilitate unauthorized access or further malware deployment.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9998

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://crewmak.ru/uplcv?utm_term=gta+vice+city+file+for+ppsspp PDF link annotation
    • http://www.kindytennis.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609b42a1715fe---83392925863.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://motelandratecuci.ro/userfiles/file/pepari.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.helpagesl.org/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a6eef881ffb---xaxalibafiwenupitofapas.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://blueridgelightingandcontrols.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/0f2a8b5ec1b9a5c31a8ba37eb7f19004/53411714459.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.photobreak.com.br/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16086b94891466---7368221267.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://christembassydocklands.org/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/d5e6b8c7a2f3901c54348974729fbad9/vivananadikajir.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://kaufdeinauto.de/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607e804d1f24f---nunelige.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ashioke.com/images/library/File/fubatoku.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://qboardapp.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/7bd06beb686b47036a94313f7197e2c2/57392522438.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://school19-zav.ru/userfiles/file/42694666485.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://berbun.com/user_img/file/51193346323.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://growlocals.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/3b8579089e0aac955d774da50ef53106/12087238649.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.urbanwaterways.info/files/gesodunofazaturo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.dadosefatos.net.br/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607bba392eb8e---patike.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://iehyun.com/editorupload/file/83037926072.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://geneolock.com/locktactyuma/userfiles/file/wikesugud.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://aliancegroup.su/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608517e811b16---rukixira.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://mas.vacations/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608fe245cb2a8---12799546777.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://givemeit.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/bf3fe20c5029acc25b8bf8758a74e3d5/14576993182.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/In PDF document text
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/typedesigners.htmlIn 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://scripts.sil.org/OFLIn 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_off0000f19e.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF19E 5200 bytes
SHA-256: d8c68717eb37d93996353e96f25a26f9b5503eb55864474d987cfbb6bebd5cb0
font_01_sfnt_off00010376.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x10376 13360 bytes
SHA-256: 98a9b9f85eaa7d07663f84137dc1f5d772221a407a8f9dd5b5e23c9595d7a5a5
font_02_sfnt_off00012e80.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x12E80 16392 bytes
SHA-256: e66abfbeddc1d19d92dcb25e98d0a5acfcfed5afa902c0cdbe1883ebc60d8997