Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 81e237707970b9f2…

MALICIOUS

PDF

81.2 KB Created: 2021-09-12 07:08:17 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-23
MD5: 947a47ec6b1dfdd57936d953b9d9944b SHA-1: 6f4c0e28d78383c99a0df2fb656bb56b0ad4bbc8 SHA-256: 81e237707970b9f24c15709576ca9b60867f6f8488649a86d1d3b8d04210cd06
196 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

This PDF document was flagged by multiple heuristics, including ML classification and ClamAV, indicating malicious intent. The 'SE_CLICKFIX' heuristic suggests a social engineering attack that instructs the user to press Win+R or paste a command into a terminal, likely to bypass macro restrictions and execute a secondary payload. Numerous URLs were extracted, many pointing to compromised WordPress sites or disposable hosting, suggesting a link farm designed to host or redirect to malicious content.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9955

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 https://krisoc.ru/uplcv?utm_term=how+to+update+flutter+sdk+path+in+android+studio PDF link annotation
    • http://uticachemical.com/files/upload/files/veximojim.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://tamtam.com.ua/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/331907c71940cb2f26cce1003e81dbe8/posegafominunesomoj.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://mebel-moscow.com/content/xuploadimages/file/42340349209.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://jshtextile.com/UserFiles/file///5834467632.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://stradatextiles.com/upload/ckfinder/files/66494114242.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://truhlarstvi-strakonice.cz/files/file/76068142927.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://himalayakebab.com/shipinc/userfiles/files/roworikegadene.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://sheilahancock.net/blogfck/file/28268399244.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://almentispharma.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/86379109547.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://118highschool.am/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/3cad39d7bce1e8b896eb04dc87d38c87/mapofewomox.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://lafiestadelmoto.cz/files/file/93979270301.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://daiichilogistics.com/uploads/news_file/nezofezepabetujet.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://strandedtattoo.net/file/zedeg.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.highettmetal.com.au/application/third_party/ckfinder/userfiles/files/dopadoji.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.civilhospitalpalampur.in/img/uploads/files/46145030896.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://chasehr.in/userfiles/file/xevup.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://etest.vn/app/webroot/uploads/files/xugakuro.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.truesdalepainting.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16139b4b7f0e3b---83708408373.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://farmaciafici.com/userfiles/files/saworibinotejokap.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://vleek.com/uploads/files/1939002607.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://bscsaoner.in/ckfinder/userfiles/files/17619382231.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://krzczonowice.pl/gfx/file/70783487585.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://sushi-belovo.ru/files/71537281898.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://hooleihomes.com/cms_images/file/lenul.pdfIn PDF document text
    • 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_off0000d560.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xD560 10864 bytes
SHA-256: ff03db4b38f6679cc181bacbad3d3b5bed02af68684f03d51f994a841795d40e
font_01_sfnt_off0000ee67.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xEE67 18572 bytes
SHA-256: 997700f13d719bee0596e65f9551ab1a0bb5a3794521ac29c625e76dcc275441
font_02_sfnt_off00011ef2.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x11EF2 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1