Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 0e369073621054b4…

MALICIOUS

PDF

88.5 KB Created: 2021-08-09 19:49:09 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-14
MD5: 4b3903b5658bfacdfdb16c3f814ef91f SHA-1: 45dd797e1fa9afcac617efe3122b16d60cd80f10 SHA-256: 0e369073621054b4991fdb6470b9e66782a1c8feba090ac70487cee5c2d9212e
196 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The sample was detected as malicious by ClamAV and an ML classifier, indicating a high likelihood of malicious intent. The SE_CLICKFIX heuristic specifically points to a social engineering attack that instructs the user to execute commands, likely to bypass macro restrictions and download a secondary payload. While no scripts were directly extracted, the PDF structure and embedded URLs suggest it is designed to lure the user into executing malicious code, potentially via a compromised CMS upload link.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9919

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 http://princeworldwide.com/multimedia/userfiles/file/33271934628.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://kaufdeinauto.de/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608200270df2a---pimanu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://paradisoseminatrici.it/userfiles/files/guroxi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://nelly-design.ru/upload/files/35140357679.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://hugslock.com/app/webroot/img/files/90310715804.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://outspokenholland.com/userfiles/fckFile/20210807012754.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://sketchup360.vn/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/4c2fiohqfr8r4udl3f298gp6l6/87609554467.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://dichvuhangngay.vn/uploads/image/files/31223261130.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.goldenplanet.dk/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160bd34f4ae94e---81537003910.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://daxitrip.com/basefile/daxitripcom/files/24596150750.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://cfacgroup.com/uploads/FCK_files/file/vunovo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://asijskepotraviny.cz/files/file/jeranad.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://globalfeedindustry.com/upload/files/74254392031.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://editions-tlp.fr/ckfinder/userfiles/files/vowitejisudazofonif.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.mybizwebsites.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a4b7bddd5e2---jerixo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://accessprecision.com/userfiles/file/77304362774.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.lipfish.no/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160f492958ed83---44859472164.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://tuanlongland.com/upload/files/53200577204.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://jaatkinson.com/userimages/varidozotizojevejis.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://makinsushi.com/uploads/files/56049647104.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://vegasoft.hr/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16071eb2a14eac---86714877379.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://imagespa.mx/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160cd27e93eddc---86796955754.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.pattyn360.com/upload/forum/files/49645813746.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://amesmedicalservices.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160b8ca06b17d2---tamolilovumud.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.clinicaepilepsia.cl/ckfinder/userfiles/files/rimubitajixoj.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://olmitek.by/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/rr07d6k7hq3o7td2irf48h5qp4/gekebexujibaxa.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Uplcv/~3/fzgW7-mxBc0/uplcv?utm_term=battlefield+5+freezes+and+crashesPDF 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_off0000f53b.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF53B 10700 bytes
SHA-256: 1f2d062f6996636cd1b173238bad875ed759d2500d28c3cb5dc45a152c61e5fc
font_01_sfnt_off00010dc9.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x10DC9 17544 bytes
SHA-256: cbf585c51d4f66ebd0a127836d5dc7e82b22b98bc60d37066f57ffca113f4551
font_02_sfnt_off00013b39.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x13B39 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1