Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 a21479a81f3cc8ad…

MALICIOUS

PDF

81.8 KB Created: 2021-09-07 03:32:32 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-23
MD5: 91fc0920473ba2fc0945da86524067d3 SHA-1: c969d6c6464bfdf49434ce199b8961143671356d SHA-256: a21479a81f3cc8addf7ac72623f0d22fab52bb603c36e1707be26a0a814db376
196 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The sample is a PDF file flagged by ClamAV as a phishing trojan. Heuristics indicate it functions as a link farm, directing users to potentially compromised websites. The 'SE_CLICKFIX' heuristic specifically suggests the document instructs the user to execute a command, a common social engineering tactic to bypass security measures. No scripts were extracted, but the presence of multiple external links and the 'ML_NYX_PDF_MALICIOUS' flag indicate a malicious intent to redirect users.

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 http://clubsahdianagalati.ro/upload/editor/file/78168704707.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://goksirlambinowice.pl/img/upload/files/89569621097.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://africanhairbraidingsalon.com/userfiles/file/domefajafemitufovonigoba.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://surrattsville69.com/clients/8/81/8122276c22396d7fa0996010cc369f50/File/wilajasezajowotofapi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://dobraukraina.org/sites/all/sites/dobraukraina.org/files/68646349149.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://amalighting.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/327b51ac68318a6a8732709a6ff0e540/nuxedemasitu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://wentworthre.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/b4b5463413be32c66dbef86545fe25b2/xinimafitukad.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.christinemartin.co.uk/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608604cc79dac---73694812879.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://retake.dk/ckfinder/userfiles/files/81023722794.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://gpmpoolandspa.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/fenurugidekuk.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.awakohchang.com/image/upload/File/ajidolor.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://viessmannboilers.ca/fck_upload/file/gigagatixi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://01host.ru/userfiles/files/66099108097.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.alertgy.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/9e29c99af3c1557bed9702ebd0439819/28512561079.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://fitviewer.de/files/file/zuvopatoxuzumedelalo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ateliergermain.net/sites/default/files/file/furidu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://coeb.eu/userfiles/files/46267542424.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://mesamiesdallas.org/clients/e/ee/ee8f1390623de39be1ac2b47a321719d/File/safenewopuziki.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://bakoca.hu/files/file/jofogipezidobipoveniwuma.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.esthemed.ch/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608a6c1dcb3a6---86245607871.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://detector-billetes.com/Imagenes/file/88558344403.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://xn--pr3b03lcdvwu9dpynqkc.com/DATA/file/20210624155857.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://louvre.lv/res/wysiwyg/file/28640863606.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://kfz-gutachter-oliver-schiller.de/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160d4340c5d4b3---11986635848.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Uplcv/~3/3vuEKuznOb8/uplcv?utm_term=outlook+nao+abre+arquivo+pdfPDF 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_off0000d992.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xD992 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_01_sfnt_off0000f1a4.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF1A4 18188 bytes
SHA-256: 879d38be38fa9de20c1e0bcf02957a52b164642ff33166bf56fad9aa60dedfbf
font_02_sfnt_off000120c3.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x120C3 10892 bytes
SHA-256: 3c43cb10ac714d1e79f08f1cfc54cde4a3476d66651ee14892c4775f7d145861