Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 5137a97ffaa71f33…

MALICIOUS

PDF

92.1 KB Created: 2021-07-15 14:46:28 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-11-24
MD5: c387ff85c18b6b5060ff8c3a30fd6418 SHA-1: 2b26e56b5f95aae19fa29514bbbd9f69ac4dd265 SHA-256: 5137a97ffaa71f33b4180c1df39bfc3be792e03edd34c99c1333569042f17577
196 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The sample is a PDF document flagged by ML classifiers and ClamAV as malicious. It contains a 'ClickFix' social engineering lure, instructing the user to press Win+R or paste a command into a terminal, which is a common technique to bypass macro restrictions and execute arbitrary commands. The document also contains numerous links to external sites, some hosted on compromised CMS platforms, suggesting it may be used to download further malicious content.

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 http://hyosangjo.com/userfiles/file/20210624094237.pdf In PDF document text
    • https://www.cukoyem.com.tr/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/lijofd6rgretcisrgl3n7igdt1/5267330148.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://boldogelet.hu/media/22473204932.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://christembassybarking.org/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/85fb115c79c43bbae4dea11ef3151690/84967507747.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://lensprovn.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/lunulazan.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feriaesotericadeatocha.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160cd5d7134b4d---20346551683.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.appsolutely.sg/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607401c100620---sifokin.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://mirembeestate.co.ug/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607644e044ae2---jelij.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://sipare.com.ar/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/u48behll821jk6vjb2janglg7d/sazeb.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://totalyoumovement.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608fede038d60---lilutiwuselepesaxod.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://singaporeroadshow.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/9d6c1e6c59394c52fb34c5c87ba6658f/64829890613.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://autotrilogy.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/d76986fe4220bdbb68dec205e19cf2ac/74639871793.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://bochosushi.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a27993186cc---fasurusetajelefev.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://medsplus.us/admin/images/file/watobupufito.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://j-line.ca/fck_upload/file/40746760216.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://chamsocmuihong.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/lndmc6qddj6a5t17kto8p7cbg8/minuforusogigizogowobuno.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.moteco.ro/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608b7842ac923---fuvisojefofunefav.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.biosafety.biz/ckfinder/userfiles/files/vobaludutag.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://petala.gr/userfiles/file/98614879031.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://haithuanphat.com/uploads/files/paselenuzira.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://gearforfree.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/q3733hc6032rcvlt09vmeshka6/laxuzodumis.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://allseasonsart.com/uploads/fck_uploads/file/kipimupofo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://alkhairi.co.uk/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/b15c6717e6d48a8c43bc3b9744a7d141/87215034010.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ceral.pl/ceral/pliki/file/84083538667.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/1eyvgo/aqOO/~3/BvfzZFkJO3s/uplcv?utm_term=irql+not+less+or+equal+windows+10+bsodPDF 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_off000102a6.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x102A6 18416 bytes
SHA-256: 626d268a52700b7578faa60d19739dc17f5738a57adc26332044ee9bb08b5233
font_01_sfnt_off0001320c.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x1320C 10836 bytes
SHA-256: 6b48657f3ce79645b125a55fe9057d7cd94702bfacda48c3acc1baea1aed389a
font_02_sfnt_off00014b03.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x14B03 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1