Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 899ab8de826a5003…

MALICIOUS

PDF

83.6 KB Created: 2021-09-24 09:20:20 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-12
MD5: b243ee37caf5dc6dd97d64beaaf9730f SHA-1: 9129e13d4c68967fc6a279e356215df5bb525a2f SHA-256: 899ab8de826a500342d70833f27cdccc29c7a5102a669fa2b46ca29da0d3cae8
204 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment T1204.002 Malicious Link

The PDF contains multiple heuristics indicating malicious intent, including a ML classifier flagging it as malicious and ClamAV detecting it as 'Pdf.Phishing.Trojan'. The document body is heavily obfuscated, but the presence of embedded URLs and heuristics like 'SE_REMOTE_SUPPORT_LURE' and 'SE_DOWNLOAD_BUTTON' suggest a phishing or social engineering attack. The linked URLs likely lead to the download of a secondary payload.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9956

Heuristics 8

  • 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.
  • Visual download / call-to-action button lure low SE_DOWNLOAD_BUTTON
    Document contains a call-to-action phrase ('Click here to download', 'Download Now', etc.) — low-signal unless other findings point to a malicious workflow
  • 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://medvor.ru/uplcv?utm_term=tft+lol+mobile+apk PDF link annotation
    • http://tion.hu/upload/file/rikegod.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://chongthamphucthang.com/images/news/files/66214907614.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.growxponential.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/cna2u3572jmvqaimmcgnnrsm5v/bebigolawig.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://rocksoliddesigns.biz/userfiles/file/guzuv.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://rsst77.ru/upload/files/80304466174.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://antonioruizabogados.es/userfiles/file/titozatazedig.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ntpuvoice.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/rixubovew.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://vladekoservis.ru/files/padafisufana.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://dailygameresult.com/editor/UserFiles2/files/717988502.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ntc-container.com/upload/files/11008728855.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://completecollegestrategies.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/0c4224847d56b5fc5dd3090f3020ccdf/37725534791.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cottonweb.net/userfiles/file/wizutiloxazejo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://kiajihlava.cz/UserFiles/File/94017078608.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://winpoasia.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/75220594506.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://propbrains.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/2f186bf70a8475dd379bfed8c6c2d81d/pixesejolaxawupixevup.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.jemelectric.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/161487e4bbf8c8---29647407137.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://datatech-int.com/userfiles/file/4203373161.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://mnarch.it/userfiles/files/27382789571.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://a-daily.jp/app/webroot/contents_img/files/3279623496.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://edv-denk.com/userfiles/file/4180889616.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://0965818789.com/CKEdit/upload/files/xofoposofu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://veriniams.lt/userfiles/file/31164286898.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://gat-asset.com/CKEdit/upload/files/19812043867.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_off0000e528.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xE528 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_01_sfnt_off0000fd3f.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xFD3F 10344 bytes
SHA-256: d840071857ffa8733c386644356c22a2010d2e746830b2e0351c3c41a1360bfd
font_02_sfnt_off0001145e.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x1145E 17072 bytes
SHA-256: 4acf3ea14ca5723b9939215aca3839f27ded47269d33028712ec65d4ff55698a