Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 b36e27aebe77232c…

MALICIOUS

PDF

106.1 KB Created: 2021-07-23 00:12:36 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-09-15
MD5: 5de0fb2c31871468ece263cb021d9b8e SHA-1: b0c29a725d45df9eeab0fc5562586ab645773439 SHA-256: b36e27aebe77232c264c53b6e2418edc9a055345672e1f4107f19d9edaab5c02
196 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment T1204.002 Malicious Link T1059.007 JavaScript

The file is a PDF that exhibits characteristics of a social engineering attack, specifically a 'ClickFix' variant. It contains numerous links to external websites, many of which are hosted on compromised CMS platforms or disposable domains, suggesting a link farm designed to obscure the ultimate destination. The heuristic 'SE_CLICKFIX' indicates the document likely instructs the user to press Win+R or paste a command into a terminal, a common tactic to bypass macro restrictions and directly execute malicious code. This behavior strongly suggests the PDF is a downloader for a secondary payload.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9978

Heuristics 7

  • ClamAV: Pdf.Phishing.Trojan-d2528dad23a95d95-d2528dad23a95d95-10044376-0 critical CLAMAV_DETECTION
    ClamAV detected this file as malware: Pdf.Phishing.Trojan-d2528dad23a95d95-d2528dad23a95d95-10044376-0
  • 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://acethamessecurity.co.uk/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/482ee4698dae3da9cd0af161b81bbfd9/xemiwizopobewikoxafudokit.pdf In PDF document text
    • https://giga-tronics.com/userfiles/files/dufaganidemapav.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.majoriscambio.com.br/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607902fde2f32---zutomunonolimi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://abhimaninteriors.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/26911922206.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://aedwea.com/upload/foto/xixogorivugutowu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://kiuanai.com/userfiles/file/xapagorodojuresumederi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://pololanna.com/user_img/files/31617934949.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.elsecretodelolivo.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160cb2bb09e326---22699653416.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://leesman.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/8a25af73ef56aefba102183c41fcb03a/79552647485.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://supportsystemsvainc.com/home/ssvi/public_html/ckfinder/userfiles/files/wokepelajuwe.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://xn--80aab8aioy.xn--p1ai/userfiles/file/86425433456.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://kayapaliinsaat.net/file/vowuwarilosuwemotalelixer.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://amwordpress.org/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16094a050b01e6---62017209514.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://beastyenergy.com/userfiles/file/88801505568.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://gastrotest.co/ckfinder/userfiles/files/sikurikuzaj.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ibb-online.ru/f/file/pokunelonelukigil.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://law.com.sg/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/4d9fc6fd2ffc5dc93f3f5532939c4ae8/pajovanuwuvefogif.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://stroynerud-sm.ru/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a8685795dc5---xelazuxubuj.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.mediacomriccione.it/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160c23316010d7---49416514383.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://martybermanassociates.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/b145c1388b527c5b6cfd4938ed6816cb/sibim.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ttmplus.com/userfiles/files/repatawifaxuxotilanaxigex.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://avtoarka.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/d676765b4ba86bb6faffa7c5202db4a6/74944909999.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Uplcv/~3/fzgW7-mxBc0/uplcv?utm_term=all+computer+courses+name+list+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_off00013adc.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x13ADC 10864 bytes
SHA-256: 0b92791fea1100db513b76ef9915f3e072142b6acd99afb1cda917899a51b19f
font_01_sfnt_off000153f4.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x153F4 17800 bytes
SHA-256: 3b27174b4f21bf06146aa201e6a65e6b955f553593c7c24853c2768cec2f2061
font_02_sfnt_off000182cf.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x182CF 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1