Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 d1e3eec5de8b7704…

MALICIOUS

PDF

69.2 KB Created: 2021-09-23 08:09:46 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-27
MD5: e4229b66702f2e68601581bd30930a96 SHA-1: b127251614075d89483fd63cb185410a8e6d8628 SHA-256: d1e3eec5de8b7704b7797858d1b58e7894ee82130cee527be3a1c4922825565c
196 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The file is identified as malicious by multiple heuristics and a machine learning classifier, specifically flagging it as a remote-support tool lure. The document body, though heavily obfuscated, contains references to remote support tools, and numerous URLs point to PDF files hosted on various domains, suggesting a phishing or social engineering attempt to trick users into installing potentially unwanted or malicious software. The presence of multiple PDF link farm heuristics further supports the malicious intent.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9965

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://resortcrimea.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/90348200595.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://veszpremkosar.hu/_user/file/89258396567.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.diktu.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16149d4272435f---xalixozozun.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://paneldeconsos.com/userfiles/file/67356628374.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://zohopin.com/calisma2/files/uploads/zubuxataviru.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://wittymall.com/multimedia/userfiles/file/79377192806.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://energcomb.net/cms_enercomb/sgi_userfiles/userfiles/files/99896533227.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://terrietanaka.com/library/files/4205609075.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://kamkmori.cz/ckfinder/userfiles/files/80877129130.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://drahmetbostanci.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1613ea5c609ccd---jurixoxuvu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://koreaseowon.com/ckupload/files/soxotevafitula.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://tsg-vaganovskoe.ru/ckfinder/userfiles/files/gituzasinepozokur.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.johnknox.ch/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/161364b22a2d3c---18333647422.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.kzhep.in.ua/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/rok78o9f509jk865bjr8v6pp74/53769806662.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://tunecharts.com/userfiles/file/musoduzerowezivuko.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://granitnet.hu/editor_up/4997427277.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://shinex-auto.com/userfiles/file/bulupelevojekuja.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ladangmimpi2.com/contents/files/liwesixokarazoje.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://athensviptour.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/161f775e20960d3fc3964ef8cc9b0301/66058286473.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.adcgrain.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/baed405bc4bfdd807cdcf07b630eeb9d/wezizaruko.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ecohort.com/userfiles/files/74194826173.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ecohort.com/userfiles/files/99709150158.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://mwasafat.com/uploads/files/dunim.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ukicda.com/admin/fckeditor_upfiles/file/2021092018062680554.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://sciattella.net/images/file/virasojega.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Uplcv/~3/1KS0DP0cxss/uplcv?utm_term=teamviewer+android+download+freePDF 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_off0000b30f.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xB30F 14652 bytes
SHA-256: fe8eb29e12944c819a5a44fd97d6bb17b15b0d6bb410db6fc773fd4fb153c018
font_01_sfnt_off0000d7c9.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xD7C9 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_02_sfnt_off0000efe0.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xEFE0 10364 bytes
SHA-256: d05807243cbf13af0473c8f5c83fab0b60d58b1d62e7af80a5f160012a839c21