Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 8d3f3cd1bb65cf95…

MALICIOUS

PDF

98.9 KB Created: 2021-07-30 17:07:15 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-11
MD5: 8a328b525c69945274ab3dfc79914c40 SHA-1: d381adc31969656938876c2a7abd704b4e287c9f SHA-256: 8d3f3cd1bb65cf95463d01e8490944af4e1c9297da4d931eecb8d41527629c4a
144 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment T1204.002 User Execution: Malicious File

The PDF contains a link farm pointing to compromised WordPress uploads and disposable hosting, indicating a social engineering lure. The 'ClickFix' heuristic suggests the document instructs users to execute commands, likely to bypass security measures and download further payloads. While no scripts were directly extracted, the overall structure and heuristics strongly suggest a malicious intent to redirect users to potentially harmful content.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9981

Heuristics 7

  • 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.
  • 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://elonsummerstorage.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160926c3e52326---zibutifixifi.pdf In PDF document text
    • https://kopari.hu/files/file/vajekejutudunozuwajuko.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://bluekeydigital.com/images/pic/file/45047710279.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://abwingsva.com/uploads/files/texemu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://dalaichau.com/files/68596938380.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://yucekalipmakina.com/tsrm1/img/userfiles/file/5903775830.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://divinenine.net/userfiles/file/waritomikebabetesesoxofuk.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://adance0112.com/upfile/editor/file/86404684564.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://gmkms.net/upfile_editor/2021/files/nefidara.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://sckstone.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/e3f39120ffb14289d31930684a2ccb48/62035662046.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.uppld.org/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607f2b4c15de1---97410731535.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://tanriovermensucat.com/uploads/genel/files/30758341378.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://hattrick-sports.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a7edab46075---19683688424.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.nordatec.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/ouq9tgnan9pj4dp5oj9cr3enbk/nilatod.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ubestsports.com/imager/files/20210607134745.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://webmodels.studio/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16080f68c5921f---99317593472.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.skyline-recruiting.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/6781e95b27b5d7f432784207c2df1644/19594332259.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://centralcogtc.com/uploads/file/zagaputod.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://jhdljz.com/userfiles/file/1626733903.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://tcurryproperties.com/konadnew/userfiles/file/ninujopetexoraz.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://sv-fin.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/3598aad5a7c136e55efd2b513040251d/kepafexuxitaxobobudap.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://rrvchefs.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/5854677cf113475742dede6c08cd0b63/64701598661.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://nuovojob.com/userfiles/files/80875962318.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://praward.tw/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/3120dc9582b6815533e25be80766c8d2/40731413071.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.cocochan.com.pk/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/4e3cb9ef48fb7694dc4f23d5ee34d580/pebotamigegiposipekutiw.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Uplcv/~3/3CAf4wW3hvY/uplcv?utm_term=how+to+run+a+virus+scan+on+dell+computerPDF 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_off00011ead.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x11EAD 10916 bytes
SHA-256: ded67eff0e7a508a5d864e3e9c4060b837f2fd5931f4c54a1e459bdf10b253fb
font_01_sfnt_off000137fc.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x137FC 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_02_sfnt_off0001500e.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x1500E 17060 bytes
SHA-256: 129fb866b850ad00f7445aba3899589fba78ae2620967cb7bb51bc9154f0b08c