Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 6472ff2374e98bf9…

MALICIOUS

PDF

83.4 KB Created: 2021-10-04 14:57:35 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-11-24
MD5: 8aa8aefea8ed25d82c59f9c5da2e4fd3 SHA-1: d52877a2f5bcc17d8a4eb3c62872dc1e153523e7 SHA-256: 6472ff2374e98bf9f1fed405a615f9a4f6e7d44582cf788aba73c095c235c461
204 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

This PDF document was flagged by ML classifiers and ClamAV as malicious, exhibiting characteristics of a phishing or trojan distribution attempt. The 'SE_CLICKFIX' heuristic indicates social engineering tactics designed to trick users into executing commands, likely to download and run a second-stage payload. Embedded JavaScript streams and numerous external URIs pointing to compromised WordPress sites and disposable hosting further support this assessment.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9974

Heuristics 8

  • 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.
  • Embedded JS stream low PDF_JS
    PDF references a /JS stream. Generic JavaScript is common in benign forms; specific dangerous APIs are scored by separate rules.
  • 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://homestayhoian.thamtuddt.com/uploads/image/files/49762005349.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://lovesenergy.com/file/20494701711.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://taumed.kz/upload/2021/10files/211001104920322096cai1j.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://daotaoyduoc.org/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/97d399e0ba6a295e0a15f9853d47c801/60443034582.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://maloneslandscape.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1613a14b13610f---vebabutopoxud.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://evergladesharvesting.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/xupotoxoxonisofev.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://kaplaitalia.it/userfiles/files/jibaxazuboxer.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://cmtoolsrental.com/user_img/files/3692764495.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://gongin.humenia.com/upload/userfiles/2021/09/files/210926230340.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://7seapharmtech.com/Uploadfiles/files/matutafani.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.hkha.com.hk/ckfinder/userfiles/files/98273817504.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://montpellier-businessplan.com/mbp/upload/images/images/upload/ckfinder/25400680981.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://soyana.de/js/ckfinder/userfiles/files/89380607716.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://deltools.com/userfiles/file/83021748396.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.audifonosdoshoydos.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1614f71e603b91---gevapijemudufedife.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://airzo.net/userData/board/file/zuzakanazev.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://grupahatak.pl/admin/_fck_files/file/38636420513.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://mancomunidadvaldizarbe.com/userfiles/files/53314144133.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://fivetc.net/uploads/files/dugidomut.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://jnvhardoi.org/ckfinder/userfiles/files/70873409190.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://doctour.hu/uploads/ckfinder/userfiles/files/dovilopejobedako.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://elazentrale.de/images/uploaded/file/musizerow.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://moto-bike.pl/userfiles/file/favidiv.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.eflox.net/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1614692b88f167---nozivu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/1eyvgo/aqOO/~3/1xuhb7AK25c/uplcv?utm_term=windows+invalid+partition+tablePDF 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_off0000df2a.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xDF2A 10668 bytes
SHA-256: e6876dfa057c12f8d7e870fc39482e9216274835239c0d481458f830fc0613c5
font_01_sfnt_off0000f787.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF787 18596 bytes
SHA-256: 573f4368953ae1f1dafe59536916c90046157423da2b134252ff74e5e1e5ca0c
font_02_sfnt_off0001278d.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x1278D 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1