Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 5e006bef53af6028…

MALICIOUS

PDF

74.5 KB Created: 2021-09-07 07:49:25 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-24
MD5: 9fc1a0ccb8612565aba5cd2a85ac970a SHA-1: e55eda9dceff27b514db39e9ce94644e25216d72 SHA-256: 5e006bef53af60288de5461265b304a73c5af1b1f0acb2b2150de6d6acc0a059
236 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment T1204.002 User Execution: Malicious File

The PDF file was detected as malicious by ClamAV and an ML classifier. Heuristics indicate it uses social engineering lures, specifically a remote-support tool pretext and a browser extension/update installation lure, to trick the user into executing malicious content. The document body is heavily obfuscated, preventing a clear understanding of its direct instructions, but the heuristics strongly suggest a phishing or malware delivery attempt.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9953

Heuristics 8

  • 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
  • Browser extension / update installation lure high SE_BROWSER_INSTALL_LURE
    Document tells the user to install a browser extension, plugin, viewer, or browser update to view content — a common social-engineering path for credential theft and malware installation
  • 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://styliststudios.com/imagesTE/file/44008488046.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://aitrans.org/UploadFile/file/F1202105240937421539.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://hutechsolar.com/upload/user_upload/files/60835761495.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://glosunspa.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16097101f0711e---16692106751.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.businesswatchguardingservices.co.uk/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/b3hdl6aknecqlavf5s7pii67ta/69955899252.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.baptistenhardenberg.nl/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160c29fce50fde---85452099071.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.pacautomarketing.com/file/temadopifaxajetu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ratsimae.eemedia/contents/file/40871809851.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://greshamgilessalon.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/feb80eadf3a31b5996f828529e9bece2/kavonur.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://mudateconmigo.cl/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/81cbf66120a8b7047bf1d380c52747be/wutam.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.segurosfacility.com.br/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a2809bef075---43971937064.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.caribbeandentist.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16081e3a4ef307---34125601730.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://xn--80ackbssfuieecff0e8c.xn--p1ai/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/j0doqu1tc478b5a2fc9g0aerh0/danib.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://montpellier-business-plan.eu/mbp/upload/images/images/upload/ckfinder/30486121999.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://web-sila.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/c2d11548dbc0b8ddc50f13c4e8e37b6d/saluxakegawufojiribixe.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://proxima-design.cz/files/file/35160829000.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://fioredda.com/userfiles/files/sedajotopapovawutoz.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://aire-limpio.com/img/editor/file/sijafoxalaf.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.icodar.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607dbce4e49fb---57308377115.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://sarlampa.ru/upload_picture/jepakozetepupit.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://dringraldi.com/clients/7/73/73ccc230e5ee2b020474e4a43bcd07af/File/35703231165.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://akkoryazilim.com/userfiles/file/xugazelojisusonewageweduk.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://pokorny-podlahy.cz/UserFiles/File/27996401713.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/skout/mBVl/~3/zMnd8XtcwSM/uplcv?utm_term=pentaho+data+integration+cookbook+second+edition+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_off0000bcbf.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xBCBF 11084 bytes
SHA-256: b679e7b6ee4b6ba07183674d0b0a0f52c64935d43be0be9a2da0d43008e6e804
font_01_sfnt_off0000d621.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xD621 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_02_sfnt_off0000ee33.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xEE33 17900 bytes
SHA-256: 2ff6a4500293c70c371d5b2e87ac037c58514da8fc1f7330686b6f33a1a58cf7