Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 524c321af1fe90e4…

MALICIOUS

PDF

101.0 KB Created: 2021-09-05 22:05:28 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-05
MD5: 251697b6dc58ee2038515ff2ce4464b9 SHA-1: 0ac6fb52869ab2a39d43e21123be340e42d2949f SHA-256: 524c321af1fe90e41aa0831f75c958b98292f33fa27293ce97c46cd49cb1d592
196 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The file is a PDF that contains numerous links, many of which point to compromised websites or disposable hosting, suggesting a link farm for SEO manipulation or phishing. The 'SE_REMOTE_SUPPORT_LURE' heuristic indicates the document's content likely instructs the user to install or connect with a remote support tool. This, combined with the ClamAV detection and ML classifier flagging, strongly suggests a malicious intent to trick the user into installing potentially unwanted or malicious software.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9929

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://www.tai.gr/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1606cb1666f0ab---palasedati.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://liily.jp/upload/file/20210725122844.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://micast.de/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/oiut6cpenob7qj5cqbj9p0pv1j/56860897578.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://c2mag.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607bf60c901aa---96017989257.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.gasserbush.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/6570da27faa5be8552aca473b518be93/49611374689.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://kodeac.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/4fj9kl0ito4kfbsb9j3o9ab5e1/98813091647.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://verdantnorwich.com/clients/3/30/306756bb587dffcd11ca74610d845a16/File/katanuvedilolujamujan.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://champagne-marc-chauvet.com/images/files/fozupikipevopuxala.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://tedvandergulik.nl/userimages/file/72296547334.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://brezov-gaj.si/uporabnik/file/nexinamalopamovagov.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.publicitymailing.ie/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16099185eceb8c---84060359507.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://caribsplash.org/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160c6bf91b4223---31983398807.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://traonguoc.vn/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/t9rka0bd8i3e221efp280pras4/jumatebusoruludo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.higher-energy-trampolineclub.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160e45053c5f44---dixilijagaxanuza.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://realwebguys.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16080710a66812---wonuzujaxubagazikupup.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://nmglyxx.com/userfiles/file/boxibefixolopigub.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://romanakladatelstvi.cz/userfiles/file/63212103272.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://jmtours.co/aym_image/files/dilelapuzubax.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://valubil.com/public/uploads/cms_file/cms_files/laneruguwobutabexofavixav.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://etimes.mn/uploads/files/piligamojafixofimaja.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://triptoboloyfoundation.org/editorsfiles/files/zukeno.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ptsound.com/plugins/ckfinder/userfiles/files/85546598095.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://vannordenvastgoed.nl/userfiles/file/37372566894.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ombs.ru/uploads/files/vaxumudazidap.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/1eyvgo/aqOO/~3/PmAiG5ZyT-k/uplcv?utm_term=relationship+between+morphology+and+syntax+pdfPDF 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_off0001203c.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x1203C 19792 bytes
SHA-256: 2ad5e60f9b568fa46761ae8004741d748273f706d9c4b252bdf1ab7ef01c9cb7
font_01_sfnt_off000153da.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x153DA 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_02_sfnt_off00016bf1.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x16BF1 11432 bytes
SHA-256: 1e8412a6107ecc67c24903860aaa94a86fb32f783c8b9c92eab5936dc154bb31