Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 00c774969e8fee76…

MALICIOUS

PDF

89.6 KB Created: 2021-08-05 16:50:47 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-09-13
MD5: a379d8f608842fcf006f3cc4a3503f01 SHA-1: 652997eaf3be2952bc2a1207e43e8cca96e231c4 SHA-256: 00c774969e8fee76e3e06b3f3415beeb145dad18d22af7eaa602a422fd8741f1
196 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The sample is identified as malicious by ClamAV and an ML classifier, and exhibits social engineering tactics consistent with ClickFix attacks. It contains numerous links to potentially compromised websites and disposable hosting, suggesting an attempt to lure users to malicious content or download further stages. While no scripts were directly extracted, the PDF structure and embedded URLs indicate a phishing or malware delivery attempt.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9973

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
  • ClickFix social engineering attack high SE_CLICKFIX
    Document instructs the user to press Win+R or paste a command into a terminal — consistent with ClickFix attacks that bypass macro restrictions by tricking users into running malicious commands directly
  • 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://archism.ru/uplcv?utm_term=how+do+i+unlock+the+arrows+on+my+keyboard PDF link annotation
    • https://motelandratecuci.ro/userfiles/file/fabunopu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.driftime.ee/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160c18f711ccad---43659732403.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://vertracapital.com/uploads/files/29990243659.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://brezov-gaj.si/uporabnik/file/xojitalilimowagamugu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://aaexpansionjoint.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160848edb4a72f---jagirikafepenemik.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.gametimecatering.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609c4097ae086---xidededojirusil.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://alwaditrading.com/userfiles/files/73737833028.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://domingo.hu/ckfinder/userfiles/files/ganamovorapetuxawol.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.budgetskemaet.dk/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1606f1251d7249---fumilo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ka-base.no/images_content/file/78275586781.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://msci.com.ng/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160b75c5bbf950---6698196095.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://adhdadvisory.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160754464e7501---6018397608.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://dutchfansitenetwork.nl/ckfinder/userfiles/files/21175780956.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://startent.ru/SITE/files/editor/file/liruligogebi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://jiptv.nl/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/seud46sjc0933rfanv06k91i3o/78966030547.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.vibrationmonitoring.asia/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160ab64dddf75f---2447683758.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://thriveelearning.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/826466abe4977dd894ebe20469b0cbf8/88698437567.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://gyndoktors.de/ckfinder/userfiles/files/51495905751.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://thefutureofgolf.eu/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a4955dd5f27---josemiwitetiboxuruvuvit.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://lastcallslc.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/06abad1bef6678ef65750979b07c3f66/21816240337.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://mycocoa.org/images/upload/files/sazofifev.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://kagoshimakojintaxi.com/userfiles/file/fadoriveminurewawuliv.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ruihuitax.com/files/file/96065809293.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.avenueroadadvertising.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607126e35aafb---wijobupapuba.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_off0000f598.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF598 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_01_sfnt_off00010daa.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x10DAA 18592 bytes
SHA-256: e832d802fbd42e505aa5534d4dbfd1b75c30ab5796ee3b61adb40a7b2ad7e526
font_02_sfnt_off00013ed5.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x13ED5 11156 bytes
SHA-256: b35325aea2c32aa2b5383fb9c107564bf5811e512b8ce8cbd753e88211b8f9a0