Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 cbde3975aa8ab1d5…

MALICIOUS

PDF

80.3 KB Created: 2021-09-02 21:15:04 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-24
MD5: f5928f155300b5d733819e857ea54da3 SHA-1: f02ca95250eff9fcca5fef6b1c1181ccc56095c9 SHA-256: cbde3975aa8ab1d52e40f6f1d70521cb567c9c6a0bf992c8e843b0fdde50ab9f
196 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment T1204.002 Malicious Link T1105 Ingress Tool Transfer

The sample is identified as malicious by ML classifiers and ClamAV, exhibiting characteristics of a phishing lure. The heuristic 'SE_REMOTE_SUPPORT_LURE' indicates the document likely instructs the user to install or connect with a remote support tool, a common tactic for social engineering. Numerous URLs pointing to potentially compromised websites or disposable hosting suggest the document is part of a link farm designed to redirect users to malicious content or downloads.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9975

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://pistant.ru/uplcv?utm_term=aranjuez+mon+amour+guitar+pdf PDF link annotation
    • http://hzjksj.com/images/upload/File/86272274512.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://atmaircenter.com/lb/userfiles/files/96036244544.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://muratay.nl/userfiles/file/jifosumazezaso.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://greenline.bg/userfiles/file/pozumagexenujavemotepad.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://canvasations.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/6e85udskf8ie65ig8dbfdgoe51/pefewuvomaliriralexadosi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://yjccnc.com/upload/files/mevutikubefarajuta.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.kiteschule-eckernfoerde.de/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160b728599c5f8---kugomizom.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://strategieb2b.ca/userfiles/file/586194665.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.peopleoftheheath.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a8df025ed38---83747750036.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.gametimecatering.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607953b53c837---fimurerujaruwefelobijajig.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.napariverinn.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/d6aea6765233389708cfc0f49c1ad37c/wijixolilizu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.tsssport.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609851a510227---10641127187.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://vinisfarm.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/c9684de5d3d7a558b878d2c10d7770e5/tafaxepixaxijazizo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.examnotice.in/uploads/files/muboxijupajozal.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://gardensyellowcab.com/admin/images/file/67518254415.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://bayzones.com/fckeditor/editor/filemanager/connectors/php/userfiles/file/99050952060.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://festival.bg/fckeditorfiles/file/boxuweb.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://studiotrusso.it/userfiles/files/benuxiwitofikufo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://af.ssla.ru/images/fornews/files/23265826555.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://1960whs.com/clients/7/73/73384dfd0d582a2861cf356c55c3c578/File/43444454532.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://floorco.allianceflooring.net/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/5f9eeb6214e11670326b57ee10e816c2/49200002469.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://usefchina.com/uploadfile/file///2021072417441516.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://299-45.com/CKEdit/upload/files/rupomugonew.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://pointerboards.com/uploads/admin/files/12730356714.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://megalabsrl.it/userfiles/files/ronenifu.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_off0000d198.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xD198 18704 bytes
SHA-256: 2a8111e4064a1e0862348810963bc07cd135cb57eba9090f257fd2e15a1ac47c
font_01_sfnt_off00010260.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x10260 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_02_sfnt_off00011a77.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x11A77 10900 bytes
SHA-256: aa662c6062c5f18e2ca19f8b9fa9631aacbe9e1de9b0e12fe691a77f9c24c422