Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 91ffd7729aab8b73…

MALICIOUS

PDF

90.5 KB Created: 2021-06-25 13:49:36 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-08-20
MD5: 9d8750d47ccb9eec9430beda7fbae730 SHA-1: e78a5998b5ec38ff10f8302f84d18af6f259992e SHA-256: 91ffd7729aab8b7326435995e2ecb02ad47eeeae7db995bbfe31ddc9b833d5ff
196 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment T1204.002 Malicious Link

The PDF file was detected as malicious by ClamAV and an ML classifier, indicating a high likelihood of malicious intent. Heuristics indicate the document functions as a link farm, directing users to various external URLs, some hosted on potentially compromised or disposable domains. The 'SE_CLICKFIX' heuristic suggests social engineering to trick users into executing commands, further supporting a phishing or malware distribution attack pattern.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9991

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://bugaboo-buffalo.eu/UserFiles/File/widibunesefovurovun.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://picassogift.com/Uploadfiles/files/tisixegim.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://firewheels.pe/userfiles/file/ripukisafufukorutipab.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://pneusmarene.it/images/file/15176190112.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://zonweringnederland.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/zurolunivogusojolazufo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.sunaryem.com.tr/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/d0dirbhucp6nofflo7cobuq5o4/87840914621.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://s-privod.ru/userfiles/file/fozumunexijokagebul.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ampletrekking.com/userfiles/file/guxefuvupojeli.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://progfin.pl/userfiles/file/53438354348.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://sskj.pl/userfiles/file/gakexigax.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://lion-trading.co.uk/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/p26hn083cfbornq43ek5l0951e/bisolidunokokewawusek.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://xenang-mitsubishi.com/fckupload/file/diwufepaponoketusikinexa.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://jcon-aps.dk/userfiles/file/31524724015.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://skyfireconsulting.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/17v2ptd3ou4uquenoj882lqemr/lepimujifenuralejixopozuf.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://adm.allianceflooring.net/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/dbfc39ac16348246572de50a637de51d/sijiwunexeturuwute.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.unicodesystems.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/c5gqp34p12rmuqt2pbim73ftk1/kiwojamit.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://purebodycare.courses/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/vh82rlrtrqb36jbu3vbhp77k3d/bikejivowavulupobegejufu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Uplcv/~3/YTWXjIUwRh0/uplcv?utm_term=how+to+find+a+minecraft+server+seedPDF 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_off0000fe0a.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xFE0A 17140 bytes
SHA-256: ada18572d365a679aab48499039d0257d5a6876852d8f2d1e3def3dec4de6077
font_01_sfnt_off00012ad5.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x12AD5 10732 bytes
SHA-256: 5387ca93e7ea28eaba35cd0967124772ac5f8cb21f403480ab5001f2adf48193
font_02_sfnt_off0001437d.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x1437D 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1