Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 a724b34a7774ca60…

MALICIOUS

PDF

79.3 KB Created: 2021-09-18 12:01:59 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-26
MD5: 87e97811a96106d8d2e98ad33a4f3174 SHA-1: 44c1e52f69541213eabf0956bb7b6a29073751c3 SHA-256: a724b34a7774ca601e415e6eb1231de09d6c05dabdcb1bb2ceabcef0ffb3d0bb
196 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The sample is a PDF document flagged by ClamAV as a phishing trojan. Heuristics indicate it functions as a link farm and employs social engineering tactics, specifically instructing the user to press Win+R or paste a command, consistent with ClickFix attacks. This suggests the PDF is designed to lure the user into executing a command that likely downloads and executes a secondary payload.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9953

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 https://sanmuabancongty.vn/images/content/files/teregupiwon.pdf In PDF document text
    • https://mkting.com.co/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/4065a70ac9b5f15c9daff17fcfa7407b/54513012611.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://perfectthesale.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1614515a5091e2---71331613218.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.agrosystem.com.tr/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/161326a55824dd---48658620266.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://transporteslaplata.com/imagenes_web/file/liwizizegufavowiwav.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://minhvuongthuphap.com/upload/ck/files/51324567553.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://aeon-dev.com/uploads/files/202109120614236810.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://atx-stroy.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/ad30c6b9faf402af3550016424454e17/96629251977.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://stauarchitetti.eu/userfiles/files/pirevojapamez.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://saftanton.dk/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16145642e22f31---dojewevadudagim.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://randygordonlawoffice.com/customer/3/d/9/3d947ad6ce2568d98b832ccf5548371bFile/vofimufudifugo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://cctsw.net/whly/up_files/FCK/file/20210914_115104_181.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://snowcat.pl/admin/ckfinder/userfiles/files/75892089702.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://snbedu.com/uploadfile/file///2021091412103315.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://lightupalife.org.uk/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1614097221817d---47829267985.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://jss-moms.si/upload/File/nokelazikotodufimilik.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ivankotov.ru/img/lib/file/fenowufivakopadanob.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.almansori-ye.com/almansorifiles/files/45070510577.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://mountmedpharmacy.co.za/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16140e66d251a5---wefoxe.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://debo-fit.be/userfiles/file///kugegumamesonibozapiwe.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ceccarmehedinti.ro/userfiles/file/buzofosewixikilidilo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://kup-vino.cz/web/ckfinder/userfiles/files/1401905098.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://inprovitvenezuela.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/6910828967.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://aylabawadi.ae/userfiles/file/63108061384.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/skout/mBVl/~3/1xuhb7AK25c/uplcv?utm_term=chrome+screen+capture+keyboard+shortcutsPDF 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_off0000d082.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xD082 17756 bytes
SHA-256: c5a0ab15431f3783cfdfb58698068be4e7e4f0f077bb793461771a8fc02cde58
font_01_sfnt_off0000fe18.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xFE18 11116 bytes
SHA-256: 26da27d01aaf5dc34dea0731eb43d8dc771a7317d0a14ec8c1b6c2af9e7721ee
font_02_sfnt_off000117c3.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x117C3 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1