Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 8342e35d3d1dacb8…

MALICIOUS

PDF

87.7 KB Created: 2021-09-10 07:00:01 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-26
MD5: 24126f4739a25e05bd9f9e51e51571a7 SHA-1: 5260e97a13d14968b6cc25eb70c1823dba77fcde SHA-256: 8342e35d3d1dacb858ef6b282f637b17abab5e52d0479f65d3d01cdf128ea8f3
244 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment T1203 Exploitation for Client Execution T1553.005 Disable or Modify Tools

The PDF was flagged by ML classifiers and ClamAV as malicious, exhibiting characteristics of a phishing and trojan delivery mechanism. Heuristics indicate social engineering tactics, including instructions to disable security software and execute commands, consistent with bypassing macro restrictions. While no scripts were directly extracted, the embedded URLs and the nature of the heuristics suggest the document is designed to lead the user to download and execute a secondary payload.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9942

Heuristics 9

  • 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
  • Security software disable instruction high SE_SECURITY_BYPASS
    Document instructs the user to disable antivirus or security software — unusual for ordinary documents and high-risk in an unsolicited file
  • 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.
  • Visual download / call-to-action button lure low SE_DOWNLOAD_BUTTON
    Document contains a call-to-action phrase ('Click here to download', 'Download Now', etc.) — low-signal unless other findings point to a malicious workflow
  • 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://rinsacars.com/files/others/pagasivaxizefumozopavipu.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://abbuffalowings.com/uploads/files/zepilokul.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://goldenbaycruisesagent.com/userfiles/file/4963666808.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://shtaket46.ru/page_edit/_samples/userfiles/files/gezesujobegekiwotuf.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://multiseal.com.ph/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/161367b2283e82---64679029044.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://rainbowfurnitures.com/files/files/13887326835.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://krossi.ru/images/content/files/nexodatuwigamonerulela.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://totalyoumovement.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1613243d84a298---letawepigixibigularevero.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://raiporjai.com/piceditor/file/47438708943.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://amezdigital.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/63ecf5f0f18fee970271a88daf943bac/foxikutogawitakafeduja.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://veoguidecostarica.com/ci/userfiles/files/99167725403.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://termocity.by/pics/files/vedopokosofotiv.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://directopinion.biz/uploads/FCK_files/file/fowuwavememojuw.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ngoctraithaibinhduong.com/uploads/news_file/93458961918.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://pasationtravellers.com/root/FCKeditor/file/fojevesepuxul.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://gemmacapitalgroup.com/foto/file/37638960462.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://kystop.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/95fb27639a0909d4930021c1abd4f3a7/xefasivawon.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ngoctraithaibinhduong.com/uploads/news_file/95048072797.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://joebalogh.ro/imagini_ws/gurejefiledupo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.louthadventures.ie/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16137e56e97804---50947970490.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.melodypods.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1613a81957d746---banogudaxewowigusowovisi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://kit-veron.my/ckfinder/userfiles/files/lezegidagig.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://manhalhealing.com/userfiles/file/25210569239.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://dascalita.ro/app/webroot/files/userfiles/files/86201666584.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.sgestrecho.es/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16130f7152cff8---36780027061.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/1eyvgo/aqOO/~3/BvfzZFkJO3s/uplcv?utm_term=among+us+v2020PDF 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_off0000f043.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF043 19436 bytes
SHA-256: dc20f206c8b5e2c37b3b39ae7832f286115d8544a1f59124e291f51fbdaa4a7d
font_01_sfnt_off000122b8.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x122B8 10212 bytes
SHA-256: 7381550daf41f7778f1fded971e78a8ba40202a4b33b73fc17c5afba79a1241c
font_02_sfnt_off000139b1.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x139B1 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1