Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 3ae8a62f8a014228…

MALICIOUS

PDF

79.0 KB Created: 2021-07-26 12:47:57 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-09-13
MD5: 0a8891fa16bfe57f35243dc9f212980c SHA-1: 02e2b1b8a86d4261b4449c8c12714dee32a747a6 SHA-256: 3ae8a62f8a01422848e312ca64de3d49ae63fa93dccbf28b51445f5321a72391
196 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF document was flagged by ML classifiers and ClamAV as malicious, indicating a phishing or trojan threat. The 'SE_CLICKFIX' heuristic suggests the document attempts social engineering by instructing the user to execute a command, likely to download and run a secondary payload. The embedded URLs point to compromised WordPress sites, further supporting the malicious intent.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9968

Heuristics 7

  • ClamAV: Pdf.Phishing.Trojan-d2528dad23a95d95-d2528dad23a95d95-10044376-0 critical CLAMAV_DETECTION
    ClamAV detected this file as malware: Pdf.Phishing.Trojan-d2528dad23a95d95-d2528dad23a95d95-10044376-0
  • 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://sk-developers.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1606f961a5cd41---35438603623.pdf In PDF document text
    • https://www.ayersworthglen.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160c6bc074a34a---1947662168.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://amfmeg.org/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a4461697911---zisonikepedotopewojizudeg.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.a2zmedical.com.au/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160922781617a5---63905048523.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://plkorea77.com/ckupload/files/58786433899.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://home18.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/c821828f886da4cfadefd0779d292008/temijavinadigubazomave.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://xn--80aanugxqi.xn--p1ai/admin/ckfinder/userfiles/files/lofuvene.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.derbysignandgraphics.com/uploads/file/9451550979.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://cctsjwhs.com/clients/0/08/08395bc9c2b8280888f0dabd04457394/File/99312712097.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://space1500.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/0697c1505023cb8b2dc11542edf672a8/vireribopusofawovigiwosu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.indoorclub-informa.com/boletines/img/file/2312118942.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.arphplumbing.co.uk/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/4j9igv807tevnb3142vdc37ka6/55328065552.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://neoville.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/fa6e8e968fb0ecfa8a24b29d32c6af82/58105471263.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://churchosonline.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/84e247a728a7cbfdd9c07bb6dcd7fd4c/dijagemenimetaw.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://smartcookieacademy.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16077ed859853b---taril.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://nek.ua/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16082a1633f1f4---58789058204.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://zetrade.cz/userfiles/file/dexubalazilus.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://kuechentreff-schmid.de/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/s31krh32q5c3vp7n919v6kq2eg/tolipitevakuvogagege.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://elitaliaweb.it/upload/file/39135185567.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://campermagazine.tv/public/file/xabuxivizefupi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://sk-uralstroy.ru/uploads/files/10815088308.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://meteosputnik.ru/userfiles/file/mereze.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/skout/mBVl/~3/LPIa9PGmDLg/uplcv?utm_term=how+to+clear+paper+jam+hp+officejet+4630PDF 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_off0000d0b7.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xD0B7 11220 bytes
SHA-256: fbbe5405ac78cba64ce6e82ae63ca27af051b509d5028ebbf871c17113a54f24
font_01_sfnt_off0000eb05.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xEB05 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_02_sfnt_off00010317.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x10317 16796 bytes
SHA-256: dd09b407c4188cf4cbfe06849409ebbb8b5bf9e850ed5506266e355e4a144eff