Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 abf14c9ce8e5d62d…

MALICIOUS

PDF

84.0 KB Created: 2021-09-01 16:26:04 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-27
MD5: 19a651f6e164127a99dce34b33fbe23a SHA-1: d60e90e8ea8f06e7b309ec630bd6ef2c89f6af36 SHA-256: abf14c9ce8e5d62de0cf9eca15ca8e4bf187b9a3c9ca42527081fe3130a9022d
196 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

This PDF was detected as malicious by ClamAV and an ML classifier, indicating a high likelihood of malicious intent. The 'SE_CLICKFIX' heuristic suggests the document attempts social engineering by instructing the user to execute commands, likely to download and execute a second-stage payload. Multiple URLs point to potentially compromised or disposable hosting, further supporting a phishing or scam campaign.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9974

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://stiglic.sk/userfiles/file/mevoketulofeva.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://benjamin1908.com/clients/f/f4/f4560e3fe432b95d15e234f900dec36a/File/38932737831.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://glina-master.ru/admin/ckfinder/userfiles/files/nujuxar.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://sakitonus.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/6fef471d831c8702931d48da41f20ddf/fakenedep.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.fotografoeventimilano.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607559d016ac8---lomadeze.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://sharzh-ufa.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/db1426b8cda5f63085db1f08cf1501a2/74476469970.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://suamayin.biz/userfiles/file/52334855687.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.jhannahs.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160f7c61e9a693---tajomipizivonajuzifede.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://jca-t.com/fck_image/file/89498129171.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://syteq-pro.com/userfiles/file/97156279196.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://mirembeestate.co.ug/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160812c8ad66a9---kunipixoxopelikujedo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://gianphoiduyloimodel.com/Images_upload/files/robovewaxuv.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://championsforchildren.org/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/6e3c5c7a94bb689d0c4f737c3a49d779/786055135.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://samoinstitute.mn/uploads/assets/file/14109612312.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://studiogaleazzo.eu/userfiles/files/rigez.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://bkairconditioner.com/uploads/files/27161671952.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://elitk.ru/_files/72793295425.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://citronixdeflection.com/nbloom/fckuploads/file/31077096618.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.thelawchamber.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160abd939d1210---zurasizixupu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://recamonde.com.br/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/161007dd1022a3---povozatitelajikoguvu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://kaies.net/upfiles/file/930249192.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://agrimal.pl/userfiles/file/3755592746.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://fitnessrev.net/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/grmp6n2jgunvt12acvnfgojqnc/53971922041.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://chetaomaynganhnhua.com/uploads/files/guzanazotufaxogub.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://sieuthibongda.net/ckfinder/userfiles/files/xakerimemebubevofowurir.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Uplcv/~3/cv9VXjIrmdE/uplcv?utm_term=how+to+edit+a+pdf+with+adobe+acrobat+x+proPDF 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_off0000e542.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xE542 17072 bytes
SHA-256: 109231315516dda9d72b3196f50b04c5305bb6adc87fa4268aade00e53a534a4
font_01_sfnt_off00011164.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x11164 10716 bytes
SHA-256: bbea5c9396fe966ed47763969774a5922bdd2084320b21123d7f391e684589bd
font_02_sfnt_off000129ef.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x129EF 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1