Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 473084c6e62d7752…

MALICIOUS

PDF

79.0 KB Created: 2021-08-30 17:01:33 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-23
MD5: 3959ec421cdb8e0060960100a8e4e550 SHA-1: b44a9c8d76c69b164b90769e79fc7b6d85687c39 SHA-256: 473084c6e62d7752e706b578ccd6ee69818463e96498c1448bc04ee4807f9ab8
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 download and execute a secondary payload. The document body is heavily obfuscated and appears to be generated by wkhtmltopdf, suggesting it's not intended for direct user reading but rather to host malicious links.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9991

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://sivam.pl/files/file/79742931310.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://pwmtqatar.net/userfiles/file/ziduxifalujikumuri.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://musicpark-live.de/userfiles/file/3653692656.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.psoealora.es/ckfinder/userfiles/files/rofiduxozasokumuv.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.lightingsolutionsal.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/7bc7bb8c661437ebbde61de4ad85e587/55806532260.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ediliziaunoaventi.com/userfiles/files/sokobibela.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ddriu.hu/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/3f5f267088b3b3c30a7259edaee9f2f5/wazubawulotumafatezuribo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://basyapiemlak.com/yukleme_klasoru/userfiles/file/81259028038.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://surmounttravel.com/userfiles/files/baxipifuzifuvi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://retentionstudentexperience.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1606d598eb2f58---lufanusixujaviletufurige.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://nfrostov.ru/upload/files/27342284977.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://manpukuorder.com/uploads/files/nexujepagipovofugu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://tobn56.com/UpFiles/file/samenokegajopofubatotawu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://doktor-ara.com/userfiles/files/dagibodovu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://soft-pro.hr/upload/datoteke/rizerejujifemavozelagagi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://refour.eu/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/00fb8ab6c982222b0a9626628dcbe425/61258170669.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://starwindows.ie/ckfinder/userfiles/files/77276322881.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://unicaconsultoriarh.com/images/files/48090837112.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.caesarstravel.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160f80625c9614---33568384892.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://photo-preiss.com/upload_files/files/vugukajutupogew.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://haustechnik-hagenauer.at/zajasulo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.optionassurance.ca/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607cc06456ea1---xibiwalijewikax.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://pizzeria-millemiglia.de/app/webroot/img/editor/file/44132451399.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/1eyvgo/aqOO/~3/3CAf4wW3hvY/uplcv?utm_term=how+can+i+turn+off+private+browsing+on+iphonePDF 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_off0000cec1.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xCEC1 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_01_sfnt_off0000e6d8.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xE6D8 11096 bytes
SHA-256: 71d9d9dd879c99b35896b75868e03ec9968b643b07351d0dc071055caeb99da4
font_02_sfnt_off0001007b.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x1007B 17560 bytes
SHA-256: 2e99280a094d1cf69667847794c1d4409f15a77fd3b42a3965b43cb0cbcae6e3