Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 5402ef2cc3019e35…

MALICIOUS

PDF

91.6 KB Created: 2021-07-22 11:52:57 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-27
MD5: 0a771f5c32a5bab4fdf1b27c19733f28 SHA-1: 4c945aafb44c8903449d10cedb4966c787b5cbd3 SHA-256: 5402ef2cc3019e356e085da11ab95a548e725c6b1feba71e3b23aa0021396406
196 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

This PDF file was detected as malicious by ClamAV and an ML classifier, exhibiting characteristics of a phishing and remote-support lure. The document likely aims to trick users into installing or connecting with remote-support software. While no scripts were explicitly extracted, the presence of numerous URLs pointing to potentially compromised websites suggests an attempt to host or distribute malicious payloads.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9985

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://brianhigbielaw.com/UserFiles/file/kuweru.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://frederickfollows.co.uk/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16075781df1311---93988577816.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://t-p-fortune.com/userfiles/file/27261684258.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://haileylusk.com/clients/e/e6/e6412a3df854040bfb282c4f37eddf02/File/12019758792.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://orkhaconstruction.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/g9af7bcqkvh0luseap7tgk64m7/kegajademuwugiwepox.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://lungshingcentre.com/userfiles/40691369540.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.mkkdigital.pt/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609ae9dceb348---80293139874.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://karapinarinsaat.net/userfiles/upload/file/zajotapalurule.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://realimpacto.com.br/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160c8e7b44266e---1662152009.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://niezapominajkowo.eu/userfiles/file/48306378618.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.telsercom.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160edc898c0b7b---ximomekuvurul.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://palezieux.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/284848583.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://yangs-ns.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/20210625074144.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://augustaelectricalwork.com/editorData/file/puvozife.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://geya99.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/sanozubiluvolabuji.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://dzwigipoznan.pl/userfiles/file/towekizalezuputadegufinu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://makemycake.gr/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/qmagaavjrprvjll3s0qt4gn759/gajolodagu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://hps-gruppe.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/2a5r8rfdfpb4rpt1u2advt3mf3/41049563986.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.denisonlandscaping.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16084bc916788f---walovesuvi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://directorvincentchow.com/fck_filemanager_upload/file/sutewizolisajenujup.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://viaterrestre.com.br/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16077d80c045a9---34918878084.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.swissfillon.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/2c44d790042009f3457bfff5bf46a035/23931890426.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.julitolaschools.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607db7e62b7ce---vovubovudubidupafiv.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/skout/mBVl/~3/YTWXjIUwRh0/uplcv?utm_term=geronimo+stilton+all+because+of+a+cup+of+coffee+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_off0000fd35.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xFD35 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_01_sfnt_off00011547.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x11547 18048 bytes
SHA-256: 433bbbfc94928ac1ada6e3ff2eed1e1b8be1fb9b4d56a608d3f8d9523210ba54
font_02_sfnt_off000143fd.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x143FD 11060 bytes
SHA-256: f726f1ef574f1620e8fec53c8b7f38e3ea51180d97e4adad29dfebcb564ae393