Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 3ddd37f82411df70…

MALICIOUS

PDF

90.8 KB Created: 2021-07-06 21:09:29 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3)
MD5: 1ff11323bf677a151e62591a89aee2f9 SHA-1: 64857d1eac8de322383998ff6ef6fcd51bbd120c SHA-256: 3ddd37f82411df7082bfe3af0ef102cfae18f5afcd8c029407db79fdea793ef8
196 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment T1203 Exploitation for Client Execution T1059.007 JavaScript

This PDF document was flagged by ML classifiers and ClamAV as malicious, exhibiting characteristics of a ClickFix social engineering attack. The document body, though heavily obfuscated, likely contains instructions designed to trick the user into executing a command, which is a common method for downloading and executing further malicious payloads. The presence of numerous external URLs, many hosted on compromised WordPress sites, suggests a phishing or malware distribution campaign.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9942

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://chcial.ru/uplcv?utm_term=synapse+x+roblox+buy
    • http://optimus.org.au/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607562f2e67e8---41678771711.pdf
    • http://hani-bee.com/userfiles/files/juranasoturuvudifiburuti.pdf
    • http://mygotour.com/FileData/ckfinder/files/20210616_64CF760E8163E556.pdf
    • http://keyflounge.nl/userfiles/file/pifasemulufod.pdf
    • https://omomediacion.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/e60869fadbc9adfd8fbb97a6e50f8d96/juguxubugagezep.pdf
    • http://ccspatti.org/userfiles/file/32432934106.pdf
    • http://lso-msm.fr/userfiles/file/91761243405.pdf
    • https://flylights.pl/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/1rk9dvta1vfoaanmol5hch0991/60045013546.pdf
    • https://rosemonttherapy.health/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/skfp4cguaa5unfuhcasaiphl18/22657336420.pdf
    • https://diversifiedhumansolutions.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/00a81323a369d6d4126bccf4aed5c323/xisawejigu.pdf
    • http://eia-edu.com/userfiles/file/piwenekinipofubokeba.pdf
    • https://themodernla.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/278a2b76d9a418f9aa599e5b99653ac4/47877364305.pdf
    • https://supportsystemsvainc.com/home/ssvi/public_html/ckfinder/userfiles/files/nemutidonatefuv.pdf
    • https://saraelv.no/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16075fa5d05166---32955433787.pdf
    • https://parklanehotel.asia/userfiles/file/26719188164.pdf
    • https://www.baptistenhardenberg.nl/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609b5b192310a---89524884483.pdf
    • http://carlaschroyen.com/content_docs/49849500481.pdf
    • https://www.nexidia.it/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/57bf35b03862a0027d7980edd6ffcdf4/35287645307.pdf
    • http://mijneigenlift.nl/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1606eb8940ec0f---fuliwaxesuluvidojawuveja.pdf
    • http://aksaaydinlatma.com/img/editor/image/file/nasusilelupegobu.pdf
    • http://vmkmsz.hu/userfiles/file/626286207.pdf
    • http://cohn-vossen.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a9a995392c5---dezumerarorijelebevetowi.pdf
    • https://hssipm.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/52c516fa96378f4871687dda89b67e2d/23782605294.pdf
    • http://sochi-polyana.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/takenoluri.pdf
    • http://www.w3.org/1999/02/22-rdf-syntax-ns#
    • http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/
    • http://ns.adobe.com/pdf/1.3/
    • http://ns.adobe.com/xap/1.0/
    • http://ns.adobe.com/xap/1.0/mm/
    • http://ns.adobe.com/xap/1.0/rights/
    • http://dejavu.sourceforge.net
    • http://dejavu.sourceforge.net/wiki/index.php/License

Extracted artifacts 3

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
font_00_sfnt_off0000ff02.bin
85eba88baa7714b55406946e859dc62c29ce401e9481abc65e197c1d76932f34
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xFF02 17916 bytes
font_01_sfnt_off00012e15.bin
9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x12E15 16792 bytes
font_02_sfnt_off0001462c.bin
3878b037c0c45fbf13676bb5f2b19cfec874d58ba371ffa07048ca3b77607058
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x1462C 10584 bytes