Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 a689902f0d6f5259…

MALICIOUS

PDF

89.9 KB Created: 2021-07-03 16:54:07 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-11
MD5: cb618b619af4aab7daaa0aec3d222471 SHA-1: 2dc99ac28d48fc1e460164c6ecd572d71168e592 SHA-256: a689902f0d6f525988a75a56029c1510840f568321cc97bf8d0e72930887bacb
196 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

This PDF file was detected as malicious by ClamAV and a machine learning classifier. The 'SE_CLICKFIX' heuristic indicates the document likely uses social engineering to trick the user into running a command, possibly to download a second-stage payload from one of the numerous embedded URLs. The document body is heavily obfuscated and unreadable, suggesting it may contain embedded scripts or exploit code.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9835

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://bettaletroom.com/file_media/file_image/file/74292677840.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://studiovalentini.eu/userfiles/files/pesipoxajamazuninot.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://fobiy.net/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/a9de7bbe8a73eafba06dfa1f04b52ecb/jatobixazexegopuxirora.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://actioncoach.com.my/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160b051e4a65b8---wavevadeperugu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://elonsummerstorage.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1606ffefd5df44---54177838884.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ivepe-elearning.gr/assets/UserFiles/mainHome/file/5032716654.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://asckhn.com/acskhn/userfiles/file/letusevifejiwidifubek.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://blackknowledge.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/6b8af4baea2ff1cd9d60d83126404935/56422600984.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cochleartudaskozpont.hufiles/wodilerokozujozagim.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://kudusde.org/resimler/files/53984787648.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.1000ena.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16084a9a3f29d0---nipajub.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://bagandpack.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/0b2e69612fc5c6071038bae007fafec2/fevukudodozebutufa.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://khiconghoixuancong.com/Khicong/admin/userfiles/file/butugopoxilikurewopaziv.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://stkvn.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/810c0d325e1f1622c3b522875d252de8/ratigilekujoparu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://jngf.cn/files/file/lekodol.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://berbun.com/user_img/file/wodonerorozipujefa.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://twr1115.net/files/fckeditor/file/vakefaziliw.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://fashionflutters.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/1421558840.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://chinese-wall.tw/upload/files/gumogiwuza.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://vuaship.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/hqu2n1bn1pgcftacvg9akqijk6/76293855937.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://agrotehholding.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/3a9a1fce9a4c7b24b409465af336648a/47135172976.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://nek.ua/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160b352237dc69---18950282213.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://cedule-plachty.cz/files/file/jineboraworuwajaj.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://maidintown.co.uk/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/4acd183965f79ef3f8c5ede14067a533/82752939281.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://art-eria.pl/mandarynka/pliki/files/rezugizorixavabu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://kajsanordstrom.com/userfiles/files/37155477655.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/1eyvgo/aqOO/~3/3vuEKuznOb8/uplcv?utm_term=windows+bluescreen+driver+irql+not+less+or+equalPDF 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_off0000fb31.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xFB31 17388 bytes
SHA-256: d0b8034486255d17d5a6ce8642e03758388b8855ea0b70cffe6eb97e8284f02b
font_01_sfnt_off000128c4.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x128C4 10892 bytes
SHA-256: 1957dd9e897c3fd463927e11fa8eabff41c171f282759a548c804de0576c81ba
font_02_sfnt_off000141f3.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x141F3 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1