Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 7ceefbb280976507…

MALICIOUS

PDF

85.0 KB Created: 2021-06-28 05:13:11 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-09-14
MD5: 0a720ea5e63dcbe223133d837ffdef91 SHA-1: 62a386f43d5575e4d3094278e93bd256c0f3664b SHA-256: 7ceefbb280976507f3959f1341b37560c164f6abdc18535026300b885d5b1534
196 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

This PDF file was detected as malicious by ClamAV and an ML classifier, indicating a high likelihood of malicious intent. The 'SE_CLICKFIX' heuristic suggests the document is designed to socially engineer the user into executing a command, likely to download and run a secondary payload. The presence of numerous links to potentially compromised WordPress sites further supports this, as these could host malicious content or redirect to phishing pages.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9964

Heuristics 7

  • ClamAV: Pdf.Phishing.Trojan-d2528dad23a95d95-d2528dad23a95d95-10044376-0 critical CLAMAV_DETECTION
    ClamAV detected this file as malware: Pdf.Phishing.Trojan-d2528dad23a95d95-d2528dad23a95d95-10044376-0
  • 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://www.birdandwildlifeteam.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1606feaccc39ab---38289170149.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://seoulgreeter.com/userData/board/file/82752326921.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://menlopark.com/wysiwygfiles/file/69110112877.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://springswellness.net/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16080b97bbb508---kuzolajijikasipagekuw.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://vds-construct.pl/userfiles/file/famukudakikurupixalas.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.baptistenhardenberg.nl/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609e6e3cab7cb---24922312278.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://bjeclinic.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/31305301322.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://certifiedmoversinc.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/cb2b45d04ad672952bddc9dd3220ecd8/patogujobupum.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.lightingsolutionsinc.net/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/40e74d7c7240ec75dd3d681c7e57684c/23545358883.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.nanodrywash.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160c2e7ec0790a---64732785230.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://blog.crowdly.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160909e2d70af4---79991676464.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.hkwebdesign.com.hk/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1606d44d1b9354---8047597709.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://wscnaturalhealings.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/2830b5fc8425f1cb5d30120d79c72aad/zimisijinoniguvebunob.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://too.kg/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/e41e9e7e75fc48de7d61a98250c55111/sezirixazanafajeduridege.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://bestforfishing.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/217728b94cb45b08f50cf517a6af8d3c/94247188372.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://jfac.kr/ckfinder/userfiles/files/40837396124.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://legalinet.eu/userfiles/files/powedanusede.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://alkalacarservice.com/public_html/userfiles/file/liwifutatusolaxotab.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://scissortailfarms.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16078fc088d288---18783483605.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://vietthanhstone.com/images/news/file/24833127381.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://aeskulap24h.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16093e531868ef---26783580794.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://aleeblog.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/u3l9f02lpso3icpa8tskndg574/zitosepusokik.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/skout/mBVl/~3/3CAf4wW3hvY/uplcv?utm_term=service+host+sysmain+high+disk+usagePDF 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_off0000e7c3.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xE7C3 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_01_sfnt_off0000ffda.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xFFDA 11220 bytes
SHA-256: 1a00340f86371e35038b4559af0a232ee13d1d8073fcb8e69dd82e1031e91546
font_02_sfnt_off000119d2.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x119D2 17204 bytes
SHA-256: a20090c518f9833821e210c3ce8b7cd021476d9ef5b555ef160931d7cb4ff10e