Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 366aff14db822b17…

MALICIOUS

PDF

80.7 KB Created: 2021-09-02 04:49:42 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-24
MD5: 3b317473375b742790df12fd29cf47f1 SHA-1: 99f1d7a31ce48a0dc9f250f1fd0b67b38ac225b1 SHA-256: 366aff14db822b17126a65d004c431c2c4246139ffabcbf9abcec05937c211df
196 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The file was detected as malicious by ClamAV and an ML classifier, and exhibits characteristics of a social engineering attack (ClickFix). The document likely contains embedded links or scripts designed to trick the user into executing a command or visiting a malicious URL, which in turn would lead to the download of a secondary payload. The presence of numerous links to potentially compromised or disposable hosting sites further supports this assessment.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9846

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://allaboutdowney.com/userimages/gezinatokadifokadasol.pdf In PDF document text
    • https://pmms-online.com/assets/file/39311122127.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://sosonomo.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/31799188562.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://geoplan.su/userfiles/file/matatisapusakimekefufirop.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.luminicaambiental.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608113c1b41f9---wadereduzaxe.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://adbadog.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/77716fc2e0b2530685255573671c1663/zoraresofasesofi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://kstarsmall.net/userfiles/file///sumawibelapen.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://styliststudios.com/imagesTE/file/wasudokisatilojagumipam.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ahcxdq.com/uploads/file/130948383639.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://hotel-la-licorne.fr/userfiles/file/gonajuluwixilujaxesibevu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://yomadesign.com/userfiles/Proj_Name/files/zavurip.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://kidneytracker.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/54932205367.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.isnb.co.uk/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/747a96e5577d0e2349ab8ead3b92f55e/witiwunofetunu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ailani.org/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/fbb69434af03f84f8d7636a8c9a449d5/15918341356.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://actsonics.com/uploads/files/202108252123575081.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://hyosangjo.com/userfiles/file/20210805074443.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://kimhoatra.com/upload/fckimagesfile/mafopifonujifax.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://fiberglasssupplydepot.com/userfiles/file/77800801203.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.hontoys.com.au/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/8je4r7r5ls5q3gpse4mk467emo/36086297428.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ahxxzx.com/userfiles/202106/file/sadozi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://lakshimi-kaatsu.com/user_data/packages/default/imgfiles/61353811332.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://sikanderajam.com/Robinson/ckfinder/userfiles/files/30140267750.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://reklamavysocina.cz/UserFiles/File/ralomedabe.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feriaesotericadeatocha.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160bd0a850c8f4---lutifitomurino.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://visaonline-vn.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/e184l8jvkndlag6onmr32udvd3/73597676076.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://zentrumok.com/userfile/files/58008021288.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/1eyvgo/aqOO/~3/DOqCt-cVA4I/uplcv?utm_term=obs+recording+only+game+audioPDF 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_off0000d590.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xD590 10996 bytes
SHA-256: 4f190efb880902638f2f24903dbeddec6c0734f13b2547a61e7976b2f9cd6ad8
font_01_sfnt_off0000eee0.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xEEE0 18248 bytes
SHA-256: 9522d33fd1c360fc3616f11bc4a6175aeeebf79e49e64ff41082e9dbd5be4e0f
font_02_sfnt_off00011d5a.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x11D5A 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1