Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 330ba1e713981527…

MALICIOUS

PDF

80.6 KB Created: 2021-06-26 00:10:54 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-08-20
MD5: 724294d2e3469719d75f411c9c9ccfe6 SHA-1: 09d0341b762e5f1f49a2695bcb184bf929ecd724 SHA-256: 330ba1e713981527b6a176ecd3c3c1ceeee6592626ded29a706bcbb43e2e8aaf
196 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

This PDF file was detected as malicious by ClamAV and an ML classifier. The 'SE_CLICKFIX' heuristic indicates a social engineering attack that instructs the user to press Win+R or paste a command into a terminal, likely to bypass macro restrictions and execute a secondary payload. The document contains numerous links to external sites, many of which are hosted on compromised CMS platforms or disposable domains, suggesting a phishing or malware distribution attempt.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9960

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://skvely-kup.cz/files/file/55477933191.pdf In PDF document text
    • https://admonks.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/1ab00ef048365a5e8109c9dc236c278d/newikamefabula.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://advicezone.org.uk/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/0amj0poh5mhdc8pdqegovpkhn6/21604477093.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://kaies.cn/upfiles/210613192122788852rpj0j6.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://clinicaveterinariagussago.com/userfiles/files/91873729771.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.erenang.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607fe96fc7cd0---fevex.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://kvartira-zalog.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/91b4c6cf3bfd74d271206cac35ab3ea6/60529014358.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://woonhuislift.info/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160940590b9e2f---tefoxew.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://shotclock.ca/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/98902dd22cb4b34bac4bc9d12cbc143d/76175584319.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://aliancegroup.su/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160c77ef60257d---92813015317.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://bbensonmft.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/dcf995744b00837662c083ce619e5137/72684211008.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://uyaviation.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607d8ff3bd893---zerewudaxoxolenen.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.telsercom.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a153e4a8e4f---guxusebinolifuxafu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://eske.hu/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16079fb73b9463---ravubuzafajewonuxitiwos.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.hungryalex.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/pbo86huu5n2l1gc0640vt3alds/nizuk.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://emergent-partners.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16075f1e48ce9a---poxeremetufoposo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://vydavatelstvoklett.sk/userfiles/file/robonuxawujuvilugo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.nowsingapore.co.id/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160b89ecbd5170---28473915320.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://amkboiler.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/100b25r2c9svt64m29bubcadik/favevatefenebemen.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.holzbau-hoelzl.at/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160c9ec051b1b1---34024130033.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://coloreverything.love/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/3c95131f46dddb346a15a1ad0f40fc41/dazoxajibanupegeko.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.officinadelgustoroma.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/31beb1bce1d4d6c52f8a6139fb2bef09/xojogukixunumoti.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://synerfreight.com/syner_upload/images/files/boropetazesebapibudozud.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/skout/mBVl/~3/Om9ozkHLxGw/uplcv?utm_term=change+from+windows+7+to+windows+10PDF 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_off0000d6ca.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xD6CA 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_01_sfnt_off0000eee1.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xEEE1 11096 bytes
SHA-256: 5838cfab3f6e21d34db9c769027dd2ebcb84f90962087e359e15819bf5ab0699
font_02_sfnt_off00010887.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x10887 17220 bytes
SHA-256: 8daef55a0de7f3cffe02f997af018645427dd3a194efd5adc392a83570e1c5ec