Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 5f1c443ac4feab16…

MALICIOUS

PDF

83.6 KB Created: 2021-09-05 11:15:45 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-26
MD5: fd3db8aed1701419e047a247d1a0a451 SHA-1: 0ee150b9a86b6a9a9479b0469dc1902dc0009108 SHA-256: 5f1c443ac4feab16c08cc304ccde41dda76090f812c4bef1a037861bf7f5a2aa
196 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

This PDF document was flagged by multiple heuristics, including a critical ClamAV detection for 'Pdf.Phishing.Trojan'. The 'SE_REMOTE_SUPPORT_LURE' heuristic indicates the document's content likely instructs the user to install or connect with a remote support tool. While no scripts were extracted, the presence of numerous links to potentially compromised CMS upload storage and disposable hosting suggests a phishing or credential harvesting attempt, possibly leading to the download of a secondary payload.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9860

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 http://caythuocnam.org/images/files/24803350185.pdf In PDF document text
    • https://nam.it/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a6a2f68a4fd---25021453048.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://urbanconstructions.org/images/uploadedimages/file/nesivaboj.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://yournew.site/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/94oqe1ba419769np0o6klkcskr/robobezup.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://eko-uklid.com/files/file/12751662102.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.mii.net/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/ddc21fb86d8f58d0699f00a784bfa877/2477387695.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.ideakliniksisli.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608e95d7ecf5d---temozeruloxedoso.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://keyflounge.nl/userfiles/file/gatuvazigife.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://najarshi.com/basefile/najarshicom/files/38748260531.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://mymovingestimate.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/ba7e21716e8d69d8fa8f86db36ff36b3/69577185362.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://sochi-vitrazhi.ru/ckfinder/userfiles/files/89878666629.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://gocchame.vn/app/webroot/img/uploads/files/53934139002.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://accesoriosalmayor.com/images/userfiles/file/52679285160.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.pethouse.es/ckfinder/userfiles/files/mozir.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.expo-hotel.com/english/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1610a5b721b63b---fajewokimo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://centroolosprato.it/userfiles/files/laturufawib.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.euroservicemilano.it/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16098e7674b4a5---bomad.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://herve-coiffure.ci/files/rureri.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://chupanhnoithat.vn/upload/files/25917653668.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://amsaneeraus.fi/userfiles/files/98710182275.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.charityweiss.de/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609a2f4d782ba---walomafu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://maugli24.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/5088ecc9387ccafe8273404628d699a1/18438556315.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.siscard.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160b3b6fdcd176---48434878670.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://houstontca.org/Content/uploads/files/78029047013.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.18fire.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/e8d77020671cf0ff2a4718bb9d4058c1/36496443808.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://greyquotient.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/8790c674771e700ec83b1641b3b25e08/79711823321.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Uplcv/~3/A3Ryygt5BCM/uplcv?utm_term=xtool+autopropad+manualPDF 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_off0000e1a3.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xE1A3 10268 bytes
SHA-256: 4332aa4989081fa34c2f2afbabaff7840e7a0f8354102e12729d489fc2a4a1cf
font_01_sfnt_off0000f8a9.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF8A9 18584 bytes
SHA-256: 2cf3394eff0cf19a576fbf3f9344f863e434c5e53310d5509e092539fe9e5f3b
font_02_sfnt_off00012921.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x12921 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1