Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 a5e3a381a6c64e25…

MALICIOUS

PDF

79.7 KB Created: 2021-10-06 21:25:03 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-11-24
MD5: 92abc858e7cb5eff52529dafe79ff4d6 SHA-1: 9ce5eb37c502fa5545126f7de6b7da2983aa9061 SHA-256: a5e3a381a6c64e252c1a7854b1aae9800bd1d118fa787d1f7470f844fbe1a9de
136 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF document exhibits characteristics of a social engineering attack, specifically a 'ClickFix' variant, by instructing the user to execute a command. While no scripts were directly extracted, the presence of embedded URLs and the ML classifier's high confidence score suggest the document is designed to lead the user to download and execute a malicious payload. The document's structure as a link farm further supports its malicious intent.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9981

Heuristics 6

  • 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://holocaustresearch.pl/nowy/photo/file/zuvipozinurun.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://fitviewer.de/files/file/zovenafalusam.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://jackinthegymtpe.com/uploads/files/202109151316391459.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://garraldaarquitectura.com/garralda_userfiles/files/52509261425.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://qboardapp.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/56f224ed441b338c896c6698ff579b84/dixaminafuwiriwajeni.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://we-plus.tw/ckfinder/userfiles/files/xujezen.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://reformedgeneration.com/userfiles/file/tagimalogagadinu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://michaels-limo.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1615020481bbaa---17103091343.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://embeddedhr.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/wajuwoxujabawitaraxuzope.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://gyogytornasz.hu/editor_up/gedesidadetidobulatawat.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://inphuduong.vn/upload/files/xiveve.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://millersexpress.com/userfiles/file/1645760778.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://hatdesechia.com/storage/ckfinder/files/warimadovage.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://a-guskov.ru/uploads/files/batinavizobetelugavuzaf.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://lexprikson.com/admin/style/images/userfiles/file/66133984773.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://rippa.pt/files/file/konatinikewo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.s4b.nl/upload/files/79723972471.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://bokaichenyu.com/upload/files/fisidexevege.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://asztromiskolc.hu/ckfinder/userfiles/files/zopitekerisolufujo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://comodee.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1615745e33388f---sujufezewapujumilapipod.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://docommerce.co/calisma2/files/uploads/ranixatopulipu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://parejalecaros.com/adjunto/upload/fck/files/kegef.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/1eyvgo/aqOO/~3/A3Ryygt5BCM/uplcv?utm_term=dns+for+warzonePDF 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_off0000d48b.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xD48B 10120 bytes
SHA-256: 245100ee2c538e6c554c3bf48f922b8c90e90aa1328f8ddcae2cb82b064267ce
font_01_sfnt_off0000eb59.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xEB59 18144 bytes
SHA-256: 887f6150cbdc44500055454125184ae74aa7408f9b94e8197a0613535c80045b
font_02_sfnt_off00011992.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x11992 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1