Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 59d878ca9507045e…

MALICIOUS

PDF

85.7 KB Created: 2021-09-07 14:35:48 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-26
MD5: d7edc910af84781fe9c4f6eb2053c1ba SHA-1: 360e3ce80b26546c19c16b4623e4a91bec86e8d4 SHA-256: 59d878ca9507045eaa9e1bcc6234fdaa5b87e6f7697f7031bb91c8c9c9ac58b6
236 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment T1204.002 Malicious File Execution: User Execution

The PDF document was flagged by a machine learning classifier and ClamAV as malicious, specifically as a phishing trojan. Heuristics indicate it uses social engineering tactics like 'ClickFix' to lure users into executing commands via the clipboard, likely to download and run a secondary payload. The document also contains numerous links to potentially compromised websites, suggesting a phishing or credential harvesting attempt.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9912

Heuristics 8

  • ClamAV: Pdf.Phishing.Trojan-d2528dad23a95d95-d2528dad23a95d95-10044376-0 critical CLAMAV_DETECTION
    ClamAV detected this file as malware: Pdf.Phishing.Trojan-d2528dad23a95d95-d2528dad23a95d95-10044376-0
  • Clipboard command execution lure high SE_CLIPBOARD_COMMAND_LURE
    Document tells the user to copy or paste clipboard content into Run, PowerShell, cmd, or another shell-like execution context
  • 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://studioingegneramato.com/userfiles/files/21768188883.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://stensoproject.com/userfiles/files/71851078978.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://bem-sa.com/img/file/53298859524.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://exlite.it/ckfinder/userfiles/files/bazavudunuruzofo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://futurepoolandspa.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/24794863443.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://vannordenvastgoed.nl/userfiles/file/91227057822.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://objetivovender.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16094519ea8e96---1227905872.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://108pizza.pl/uploads/userfiles/files/rotuvinudubedul.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://moawin.org/editorfiles/userfiles/files/biguvusobunabukazu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.mtpartnersfl.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607416293c788---56838179565.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://goodwynva.com/clients/d/de/de91e19d235d8a3764238851c6b73f99/File/93232494330.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://atomiccm.com/userfiles/files/61375370227.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://americasbestmanassas.com/uploads/files/rigotebasedosikaxubomev.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://everestlodgelukla.com/userfiles/file/lorebevofazuzonuvoga.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://414movement.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/4a83bfe8d4d947f4bfe8929d11782bfc/36135528296.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://vdgairconditioning.nl/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16100d923aeb4e---wiranurodarakiseguzinuba.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.superioreagle.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608fd439362d2---72268646707.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://sjar-tech.com/uploadfile/file///2021071722145881.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://daaeportrett.no/upload/file/latopukujamisu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://al-farh-iq.com/upload/userfiles/file/26433833125.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://autonoleggioassereto.com/file/rufugagipap.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://engineersclasses4competition.com/files/others/tafukavibolor.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://amphorabeautyclub.com/campannas/file/3181852804.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://webornate.com/viking1/uploads/files/2309387996.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ka-base.no/images_students/files/xajunijoremazibivolo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://kaskad-74.ru/images/uploads/derunulakalex.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/skout/mBVl/~3/A3Ryygt5BCM/uplcv?utm_term=all+keyboard+shortcuts+for+windows+10+pdfPDF 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_off0000e676.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xE676 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_01_sfnt_off0000fe88.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xFE88 18380 bytes
SHA-256: ea254b5f2e356c13ec3a8923193cbc55493f518146f21984e86ece67228a92ce
font_02_sfnt_off00012dd2.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x12DD2 11404 bytes
SHA-256: 3703ac25f31e88433efa1ec0cd8a16a753e3ae250ec2badb01a48cb8af90b392