Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 19dd6be9175ef892…

MALICIOUS

PDF

78.6 KB Created: 2021-06-26 00:05:08 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-11
MD5: 799686b563fe2b42135bc0a97cfe1074 SHA-1: 2c9bcd7d05235864a9cd372ac1971ad102cd69a2 SHA-256: 19dd6be9175ef892010f1c19d7aa7cc8d24111ae71279d44aee5395c36957cdf
236 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

This PDF document was flagged as malicious by a machine learning classifier and ClamAV. It contains a link farm pointing to compromised WordPress sites, suggesting it is part of a phishing campaign. The document also contains text that attempts to trick the user into running a command, specifically 'cmd show logged in users', which is a hallmark of ClickFix social engineering attacks designed to bypass macro restrictions.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9958

Heuristics 8

  • ClamAV: Pdf.Phishing.Trojan-d2568dad23a94d95-d2568dad23a94d95-10044375-0 critical CLAMAV_DETECTION
    ClamAV detected this file as malware: Pdf.Phishing.Trojan-d2568dad23a94d95-d2568dad23a94d95-10044375-0
  • LOLBin token sequence in document text high SE_LOLBIN_RUN_COMMAND
    Extracted document text contains a Windows script/execution tool name (PowerShell, mshta, cmd, rundll32, regsvr32, …) within 220 characters of a dangerous flag, command verb, or URL. This is a visible 'run this' instruction in HTML/PDF/RTF lure bodies, or — in macro-laden Office files — the macro's own string-pool entries appearing adjacent in extracted text.
  • 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://www.saraviation.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16098afd423ab8---2360896856.pdf In PDF document text
    • https://shared401k.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/da916bd12e4306ceff2c0551f315e0a4/webak.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://atlastoursntravels.com/userfiles/file/sobemudujodofiloke.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://sakitonus.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/3b7ac75cc83f5f1bf2874c73a3f432b2/65101572456.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://poiskvod.ru/images/file/dusibedivuxir.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://oncallanatomist.org/ckfinder/userfiles/files/14535687208.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://sochi-vitrazhi.ru/ckfinder/userfiles/files/nijod.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://absigorta.come/file/3442795252.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://mytmbc.org/fckimage/file/10858988425.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://heykidsletscook.info/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/64b29871ed7b843bd8af63c17df6aa0f/49495089833.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://angkorphotographyguide.com/userfiles/file/97986423979.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.marcado.ca/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160876883eab00---65611920621.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://medgarlci.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/004bd575ea1730e1e915a714150ec2a2/72994452261.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://tradeweb.es/userfiles/file/fivoxekop.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://sweetestspaparty.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1606eda516c6ed---45856550968.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.corazondelsol.es/ckfinder/userfiles/files/13995281270.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://appletechsolutions.com/userfiles/file/15497489516.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.radiopopiatej.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160c5680511dba---95126390663.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.darrellstuckey.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160ca3eec25be0---jizulotenifogib.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://adamlegal.com/userfiles/file/50638627505.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.msolartop.cz/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607f676da45d6---lixiluxo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://la-klamm.org/userfiles/file/91842522334.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.mediagrand.hu//data/editorfile/mipozorobexe.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.saraviation.com/wp-conteIn macro / runtime command snippet
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Uplcv/~3/YTWXjIUwRh0/uplcv?utm_term=cmd+show+logged+in+usersPDF 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_off0000d008.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xD008 10652 bytes
SHA-256: 69ca7873d01d1a2db5d3a4ddbe2a55f46fa2fc1620af701a1f298a8db05b5297
font_01_sfnt_off0000e7ff.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xE7FF 17220 bytes
SHA-256: 9d4a308daa7f195447f225cbe1eb268e64c393f0462efb8255235913898b598f
font_02_sfnt_off00011561.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x11561 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1