Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 b69dd23d4ccb6edb…

MALICIOUS

PDF

81.3 KB Created: 2021-06-12 16:34:28 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7) First seen: 2021-09-23
MD5: 5f50efa619e1cd608525f376dc54c1cc SHA-1: 4bde44b9ab379fc5bd2b64993b994d8cdcf7578a SHA-256: b69dd23d4ccb6edb7ebcbf81b137e6e2cb1f238befb640920bdcdaa6074e64df
196 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

This PDF document was flagged as malicious by ClamAV and an ML classifier. It uses a ClickFix paste-and-run lure. The file embeds a large number of external links characteristic of an SEO link farm, many hosted on compromised CMS upload directories. Specific URLs and indicators for this sample are listed in the indicators section.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9998

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://cructi.ru/uplcv?utm_term=windows+convert+cd+to+mp3 PDF link annotation
    • http://philippinesroadshow.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/d6e55192913015795a7eb3b1f7e7362d/2755063851.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://polymer-optix.de/userfiles/file/94115837230.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://bclgrouptt.com/userfiles/file/moluwerubasesopipevelukom.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.kiteschule-kiel.de/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160c1e763b9b7f---tufupuxunejimirefi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://sandalyecenneti.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/ti99eikdton6lr49deq5soluf7/25474371796.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ekransamara.ru/files/39088733805.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://nowyhotelik.pl/userfiles/file/nedugaturosebasajosutat.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.neslihanonur.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/2bec6f7581e0ce780f4ee52bcec8aee1/95903365249.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://centar-znr-zop.hr/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160789e241b244---50878761165.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://lightspec.ca/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/1b5ae315463cb738d7e7807ea2c77cef/16511714943.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.investing-in-women.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160c412f524ee4---gedazizumumivilawaxaw.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.olympussverige.se/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/lkhe2uutenar6fjo9oum8e2cb3/21754129933.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.kiteschule-kiel.de/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609f66e20833d---rukosojoladajigas.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://alexlunacoach.com/img/editor/file/sasaso.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://heyumpnd.com/userfiles/file/%5C/tisakulofifomixeruxap.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://bagiez.com/userfiles/file/lopakakimabexunolevudos.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/In PDF document text
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/typedesigners.htmlIn PDF document text
    • 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://scripts.sil.org/OFLIn 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_off0000e965.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xE965 5304 bytes
SHA-256: b3aac99943db171a743a89a8e1363d4249dc4f2850ba8b11e778485ea0ebc2a2
font_01_sfnt_off0000fb7e.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xFB7E 11268 bytes
SHA-256: 8ceb26c38f86230f7c82f4193cb48838ced5d5be7056cc94df4289f325183a5f
font_02_sfnt_off00012215.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x12215 16068 bytes
SHA-256: 9e1271d681207e96fe60c94df920a27091a957dc81e2614e9e6235263a34fce6

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