Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 2c548f82d3e77762…

MALICIOUS

PDF

82.8 KB Created: 2021-09-13 07:14:56 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-11
MD5: 62e52c4e6899b5fc8a0031c60628f4b3 SHA-1: fbc0b4e0d4c514ad36fb08ec92574ccf3b70519c SHA-256: 2c548f82d3e777624a13383c350e29752a3e79a1a177af180785411a4681a7d1
216 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1204.002 Malicious File T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

The file is identified as malicious by ClamAV and an ML classifier, with heuristics indicating it's a link farm pointing to compromised WordPress sites and potentially disposable hosting. The 'SE_CLICKFIX' heuristic is critical, as it reveals the document's intent to socially engineer the user into executing commands directly, bypassing macro restrictions. No scripts were extracted, but the overall pattern suggests a phishing or malware delivery attempt.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9951

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
  • 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
  • Clickable URI points to raw IP address medium PDF_URI_IP_LITERAL
    PDF contains a clickable HTTP(S) action whose host is a literal IPv4 address. Legitimate documents normally link to named domains; raw-IP destinations are common in disposable phishing and malware-delivery infrastructure.
  • 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://ketchas.ru/uplcv?utm_term=android+install+apk+file PDF link annotation
    • https://kurtoglumob.com/upload/file/91766455993.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://elosc.com/upFile/file///ITX202109070936086222.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://mytutr.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/9befc1879876a7438dcc6ddf8dd5a2cc/keporezokabe.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://officegate.biz/admin/fck_upload/file/90993601577.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://xn--9i1b14l32gg2dsybq3b.com/upload/fckeditor/file/kekot.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://kaiyudachem.com/filespath/files/20210901215329.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://srinivasagroup.com/ci/userfiles/files/lanorebalu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://104.156.58.56/~web2inbox/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16130a3828f296---26724639162.pdfPDF link annotation
    • http://findmecakes.com/userfiles/files/wadesopadarixejasinoza.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.cheapmotorcycleinsurancepa.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/631d63292b703474934bbe1723e4d2b1/jemakakeji.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://corporatiegids.nl/uploads/files/6074521938.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://mimpishio1.com/contents/files/dikit.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://china-zub.ru/userfiles/file/zonimidowigesopoka.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://sindicav.com.br/ckeditor/ckfinder/userfiles/files/61747534948.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://farmaciafoglia.eu/userfiles/files/79879754671.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://colegiumaniucarei.ro/ckfinder/userfiles/files/memademavivekeru.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://12shio4.com/contents/files/93290634947.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://unique.global/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/225687af258d535c7620fa23aaf5cacb/ritoregudevutitisase.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://kinel-hunter.ru/upfiles/file/35166196247.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://omonetach.pl/foto/ilustracje/file/gewifepowexugunavapikar.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.greenlakecruises.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/5763240663.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.puskinas.lt/ckfinder/userfiles/files/44343624572.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://iphastkala.com/userfiles/file/88001921363.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://twapp.freshkon.com/upload/files/vixebonutebuwizajon.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://alexandersorokolaw.com/customer/3/d/9/3d947ad6ce2568d98b832ccf5548371bFile/46564743586.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_off0000e04b.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xE04B 10564 bytes
SHA-256: 3f61dc506175db94e39da85dd21cc1083bea36ce219f31991786fbc422abd9c3
font_01_sfnt_off0000f886.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF886 17556 bytes
SHA-256: f758f9fee358f4c877cdcb239aefe932b9dcdc3bff925fd6b2ed9abe4613765a
font_02_sfnt_off000125fc.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x125FC 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1