Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 0164c53c8f262e8f…

MALICIOUS

PDF

83.6 KB Created: 2021-09-02 09:09:56 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-14
MD5: 98295e4a759112555595a82197eaf256 SHA-1: 3f46fcf5f52d6e2546080a29263fcc6667ffe030 SHA-256: 0164c53c8f262e8f73a5eb1c0255570a995e2290c63648c00ea063eb6ee69679
196 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

The PDF document was flagged by ML classifiers and ClamAV as malicious, specifically as a phishing trojan. The 'SE_CLICKFIX' heuristic indicates a social engineering attack designed to trick the user into executing a command. The document contains numerous external URLs, many hosted on compromised WordPress sites, suggesting a phishing or malware distribution attempt.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9974

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://allytemp.ru/uplcv?utm_term=bsod+driver_irql_not_less_or_equal+win+10 PDF link annotation
    • https://bursaceviritercume.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160bf6a91300da---72158829141.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://daleplumbinginc.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/58093dbb36e75e7f0e478549072030b1/pimetezilalo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.kickcommerce.com/userfiles/file/78340082029.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://chaletsuenodesol.de/files/23551269137.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://techscreening.com/userfiles/files/70968639919.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://liyangah.com/Upload/file/jizidipogunipevaku.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.arphplumbing.co.uk/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/ir2hg8uiul0f2nrt10jluce1vn/juwisaxaxaxukopirax.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://matfplayer.com/calisma2/files/uploads/xexuzegunuvowegoxapi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://adbadog.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/5b8b4ad830c017eafef1ddfb81a027d0/35511481750.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.cavice.fi/tiedostot/files/91046648713.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://svetpoznaniyaonline.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/18b341b22e55efc44913b32ffeda58e3/79892261955.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://interno-kazan.ru/upload/files/18045099085.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://thehamptonsbloomington.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607909849fccb---sevudasisajamupo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://andreagarciam.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160b2635eca3c7---wunewuluzanoxefoxa.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://dixietemporarystorage.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/2d50493f2dbb0734dedf06151e2f3935/25188712922.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.expo-hotel.com/english/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609606b86b69a---rekubowepawadujidovomi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://vivatbacchus.hu/files/file/tifaporipuxusivu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://aviatechinform.ru/sadm_files/belativupunagiweratinonev.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://rolmech-strzelno.pl/Upload/file/95015012514.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://goactive.hu/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/5604b8489c759c531673961860b4e23a/bemakafamojojojurunodora.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://maygiaphat.com/upload/files/vobamuwedotodube.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://mijneigenlift.nl/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160bd9c64c0349---98200045922.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ratco-hardware.com/Ups/files/55089410939.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.tiande-global.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/24435516000.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.webhisto.com.tr/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160888c7b939a5---savib.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_off0000e0b9.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xE0B9 17892 bytes
SHA-256: 5eda5fd8320d335eedd88d8308f4da83417f42e9a52587d1615698fa549836b5
font_01_sfnt_off00010f28.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x10F28 10900 bytes
SHA-256: a9eb7e0659ff465ef41ae2ddba9a829b5a63d2a4ba7fbdc1403bccbdc70b5ca8
font_02_sfnt_off00012870.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x12870 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1