Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 3e784297bb942bed…

MALICIOUS

PDF

83.2 KB Created: 2021-09-02 18:49:07 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-12
MD5: f2b0f3c6fc5d927f0df9c2d2eac9a568 SHA-1: 23802bf08e0108fa3f54817affbd28b95e235f2b SHA-256: 3e784297bb942bed31d4b8e8a63dbbfb46d38ba132f376b5276e1b6859e8f749
196 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment T1203 Exploitation for Client Execution

This PDF document is classified as malicious, exhibiting characteristics of a phishing lure. The 'SE_REMOTE_SUPPORT_LURE' heuristic indicates the document likely instructs the user to install or connect with a remote support tool, a common tactic for social engineering. The presence of numerous external URIs, many pointing to compromised or disposable hosting, suggests an attempt to redirect the user to malicious sites or download further payloads. No scripts were extracted, but the PDF structure and embedded URLs strongly suggest a phishing or malware distribution attempt.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9974

Heuristics 7

  • ClamAV: Pdf.Phishing.Trojan-d2528dad23a95d95-d2528dad23a95d95-10044376-0 critical CLAMAV_DETECTION
    ClamAV detected this file as malware: Pdf.Phishing.Trojan-d2528dad23a95d95-d2528dad23a95d95-10044376-0
  • 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://inwebjor.ru/uplcv?utm_term=discours+indirect+fle+pdf PDF link annotation
    • https://anjingliar.com/contents//files/34909834973.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://valenciamaids.com/userfiles/files/22324830672.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://capmar.eu/userfiles/file/sikakaluwojuwi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://hokeypokeychallenge.com/clients/7/77/77ac66e313b6cb4bf602f1678accca72/File/48969607707.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://bobhendrix-law.com/customer/3/d/9/3d947ad6ce2568d98b832ccf5548371bFile/71194024123.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://dryoucosmeceutical.com/userfiles/files/zubuf.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://chinhsuasolieu.com/media/files/645376661.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://rt-totaalafbouw.nl/userfiles/file/34524124512.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://wolfpackbasketballacademy.com/content_docs/jowatutapufuzuwag.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://asude.istanbul/ck_images/files/80702830664.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://phanphoiongnhuahoasen.vn/upload/files/99801971006.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://archcosmeticstudio.com.au/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/1a0e27cfc78fc9f3e7452b850d197dc5/migavurizifilesiribu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://santa.sg/images/users/00000000/files/pomowu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://kalyna.ua/sites/default/files/userfiles/file/23605336565.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://veritiesinstitute.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/1003f4e6dbb9132c9729b00800d433a2/kasawigogibobalexukuv.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://gtsonline.nl/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/7pl6ou645mpp3shcsfh5kk56rc/lijetinugupo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ever0036.com/assets/uploads/ckedit/files/20210529221737.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://rclurie.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/fa04bff59e9b93953722a6002e9463f8/45069265845.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://djapm.com/userfiles/file/gezudapelabeduxudejuxetoz.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://alutat.com/data/file/tomaguwapugijobi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://bravo-hk.com/userfiles/file/49972969705.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://alphacleanwashing.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/e5dcc688b71b033db1d0e6cbb6e55c03/ropojabixakimotaxe.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://gramercy-grand.ru/files/file/tozevixuwosi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ineke-ott.nl/keramiek-beelden-imagesfile/fizolop.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://hmanagement.net/userfiles/file/87400148145.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_off0000da20.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xDA20 19568 bytes
SHA-256: a9433b12d823a8d4192779175d566e17059451496b797a6b97c91adc6a7ea704
font_01_sfnt_off00010cf7.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x10CF7 10552 bytes
SHA-256: c766e03987aa95aa064704bc5984e946997836628f7b73b7632c28a4c1e7c23f
font_02_sfnt_off00012522.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x12522 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1