Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 7e8b2ee88ff22cc6…

MALICIOUS

PDF

81.8 KB Created: 2021-09-16 13:55:23 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-14
MD5: 095224ebcc3c95431132fb4ac5f65570 SHA-1: f66843e0813f9a988aaf1009424311ed5368ad72 SHA-256: 7e8b2ee88ff22cc6c422bd6833e4847297151e4bf7b0d9bc29fd61caea866d2d
196 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

This PDF file was flagged by a machine learning classifier and ClamAV as malicious, exhibiting characteristics of a phishing and trojan delivery. The 'SE_CLICKFIX' heuristic indicates the document likely contains social engineering to prompt the user to execute a command, a common tactic for downloading and running secondary payloads. Multiple URLs were extracted, many pointing to compromised websites or disposable hosting, suggesting a link farm designed to distribute malicious content.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9949

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://www.valaisconsulting.ch/file/luzokosoviribekoriba.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://fantasypartyentertainment.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1613abdf668aeb---pojufefidukizipogile.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://autosoftware.company/autoresponders_images/files/25153462828.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://projetounificado.com/uploads/files/mopitugewasifefogukeli.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://tuecpa.com/file_media/file_image/file/4927744108.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://jualumnitoronto.com/editor/uploadfiles/21740173385.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://sirikulsteel.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1613040a0830eb---71024800473.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.shipgo17.com/plugin/ckeditor/ckfinder/userfiles/files/83168917908.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://erictex.com/ufiles/files/nojolizorevemenofa.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://cadelupo.it/userfiles/files/nifoj.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cuichi177.com/uploads/files/202109110859352303.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://twtime.com/uploads/files/202109090301149703.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://kepco-group.com/uploaded_files/userfiles/files/nanokikidagatinofuwiv.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://geoscan.it/userfiles/files/vapesibitiloxelol.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://optimuselearningschool.com/learning/site/images/uploadfiles/65286904001.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://webmodeli.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1614192c1144a0---24211395411.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://dolphinegypt.net/userfiles/file/miwekufozerurorujaferov.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.samuitns.com/image/upload/File/mosiwipunojanunedaku.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://netichikawaya.com/userfiles/file/kujararunake.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://millionsdiscount.com/mo_images/files/zabagedona.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://loaamtran.com/files/usersfiles/files/kafupugus.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://grupophi.es/uploads/files/garinafaguzimuwego.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://rulife.ru/ckfinder/userfiles/files/53963096399.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://zzquansu.cn/d/files/tevodizidadiwe.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://webcertain.net/contentupload/fckeditorUploads/organization_/file/bixorokadisevavenopaz.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/skout/mBVl/~3/S30rS-6n6vg/uplcv?utm_term=my+default+gateway+androidPDF 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_off0000da3b.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xDA3B 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_01_sfnt_off0000f24d.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF24D 18096 bytes
SHA-256: a44d16f434e12fab5bcd26abec602d33e88214fcbaa7c9bfc5c68a9629d25318
font_02_sfnt_off00012164.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x12164 10652 bytes
SHA-256: 72b592a35170cac5f63ab01b4a7b7db6292e767cb8bc55737c17447e79d5a51e