Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 1a089fcbabd7b2b5…

MALICIOUS

PDF

92.5 KB Created: 2021-08-15 04:07:09 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-09-18
MD5: 1f891f9fce686029c726047591a76b60 SHA-1: c0cf526fc9589d91e9f2a62754d6fab516015a06 SHA-256: 1a089fcbabd7b2b5763e4af3b978e2abf3ef55af1a4846218db7e61356b11505
196 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

This PDF document was flagged by ML classifiers and ClamAV as malicious, exhibiting characteristics of a ClickFix social engineering attack. The document likely attempts to lure the user into executing arbitrary commands by instructing them to press Win+R or paste a command into a terminal. The embedded URLs and link farms suggest the document is part of a phishing or malware distribution campaign.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9970

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://aucoindeshalles.com/menu/file/zavupufefuto.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://dienvietbac.com/uploads/files/gadikovasuninifirug.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://aqs-group.it/userfiles/files/zivevulafa.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://studiorestagno.eu/userfiles/files/rojanodo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://nowyhotelik.pl/userfiles/file/11850129896.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.lavalledesign.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160cae60c234c9---nokesabidesutonulimeto.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.scilights.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/4b1f0b1d89712e7bde01f1f26fe4e5ce/76010050160.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://veronicanealhome.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/2/160c0202aa307d---fikevopuwi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://fantacyhandicraft.com/userfiles/file/57738549043.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://akarchlight.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/483cd286bbab8e7d32c5487491c527fc/tesafiwenabukafulixenagek.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://k-kompany.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/f64b0cb21727062562a23df2b8fff119/warakotupinelep.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://avtoarka.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/84a004b0d9acba69600d1253b74cb197/22236746268.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://wakingbeauty.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609d34de9a051---fizijakuzuvupukitawu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.tif.cn/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/klfv6fq4b4a1r3btf143eh1kih/zifixaruzumabokawiwod.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.albispanaderia.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/f2593f41b954204267e01882fc6687db/rorimated.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://etonbio.com/newsLetters/images/file/xarugul.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://biomassasia.net/data_ed/userfiles/file/wumupetegabexofipum.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.movingwithmagna.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/89a678692c37d40e3a80b22095882b14/87256936631.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ukwoodrecycling.com/userfiles/files/74801717351.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://wwstationery.com/files/file/gigukureluzirugafumemoni.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://brunagabriele.it/userfiles/files/tupekekosotafu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://rana-international.com/userfiles/files/39981772626.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://dobre-jaja.com/Upload/file/73183071034.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://zgkimsteszew.pl/img/upload/files/4215072092.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/1eyvgo/aqOO/~3/Om9ozkHLxGw/uplcv?utm_term=can+i+use+any+micro+sd+card+for+ps+vitaPDF 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_off00010089.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x10089 11044 bytes
SHA-256: c6c7a9f9c408a5b6b5aa6aabdc4e573edaa551df55eeccbbfed3ead22ea0ced8
font_01_sfnt_off00011a51.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x11A51 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_02_sfnt_off00013263.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x13263 18360 bytes
SHA-256: 054e0b27e4db31d6d1b1652480006989dfc1d9c4b14e2b38d3834dac8c11f98a