Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 b8f35cc3835086b8…

MALICIOUS

PDF

81.7 KB Created: 2021-07-13 12:19:13 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3)
MD5: 8ad7b3680af4a86f11a7ed16caa33f04 SHA-1: 5338ff6708ce4fc1d1d42deec8f0f5bacc1e4558 SHA-256: b8f35cc3835086b876dba63b7ce8721667b8be71014cce66cc9e6c8510d39c0b
244 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment T1204.002 Malicious File T1553.005 Security Software Installation

This PDF document exhibits social engineering tactics, including urgency lures and instructions to disable security software, consistent with ClickFix attacks. The document likely aims to trick the user into executing a command, such as 'the required operation requires elevation', to bypass security measures and download a secondary payload. Multiple URLs hosted on compromised WordPress sites suggest a link farm distribution method.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9960

Heuristics 9

  • 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
  • Security software disable instruction high SE_SECURITY_BYPASS
    Document instructs the user to disable antivirus or security software — unusual for ordinary documents and high-risk in an unsolicited file
  • 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.
  • Urgency / deadline lure low SE_URGENCY_LURE
    Document contains urgency or deadline language ('account will be terminated', 'action required within 24 hours', etc.) — useful context, but low-signal without other findings
  • 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://glosunspa.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160886e1fbe81d---63599713833.pdf
    • https://www.kadinlarsitesi.org/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160798d9f9404e---karuzatowop.pdf
    • http://windcampus.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1606ea1c1a9a2f---kukivurexoparaz.pdf
    • http://kwong-cheong.com/userfiles/40175952817.pdf
    • https://goldenparadisestsimons.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/eb2955e897ca786a3b4fe815e895716e/26719776399.pdf
    • http://elenasteele.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160bf1fa18afcb---68580462026.pdf
    • https://expungemyrecordnj.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608da7f4846a2---87251850177.pdf
    • https://marljivo.hr/userfiles/file/sifeweputopebilasapan.pdf
    • http://yuseigachi.nl/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160b9abf689853---71257693615.pdf
    • http://houstontca.org/Content/uploads/files/latezalezemes.pdf
    • http://www.vako.vn/app/webroot/uploads/files/ximikojukobufikoj.pdf
    • http://imreelectric.sk/uploads/file/magisalevajogosuru.pdf
    • https://gz-topstar.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/75e2aeebaf6f3aac63c90bbdb6069886/10444868246.pdf
    • https://www.yoursurveysurveyors.co.uk/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160e2201015bd9---zujupoli.pdf
    • http://xn--80aadq3ae7aa5k.xn--p1ai/upload/file/tufuluvo.pdf
    • http://vdadanang.vn/app/webroot/assets/files/sagatexu.pdf
    • https://portsidestrategies.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/f9263dc1cecf412f3914589435a7193a/52632689777.pdf
    • https://ahi.com.ua/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/cb4e8b09159b75b4796eaaf2eacbd1d5/46425543361.pdf
    • http://erbilsunhotel.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/00uqin1qko1gqu06p2v647ndi3/68374395363.pdf
    • https://aduanaldelvalle.com/userfiles/file/34453655735.pdf
    • http://oneself.pro/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a34d7acd73e---juzemajulogurowab.pdf
    • https://popa.com.br/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/1bb94b40c8fdec50a5a16fb9a412e25c/zodawi.pdf
    • http://btc-ltd.com/upload/file/rujexufupurebotukaj.pdf
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/skout/mBVl/~3/PmAiG5ZyT-k/uplcv?utm_term=the+required+operation+requires+elevation
    • http://www.w3.org/1999/02/22-rdf-syntax-ns#
    • http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/
    • http://ns.adobe.com/pdf/1.3/
    • http://ns.adobe.com/xap/1.0/
    • http://ns.adobe.com/xap/1.0/mm/
    • http://ns.adobe.com/xap/1.0/rights/
    • http://dejavu.sourceforge.net
    • http://dejavu.sourceforge.net/wiki/index.php/License

Extracted artifacts 3

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
font_00_sfnt_off0000dbc9.bin
32f68c9f80a9f7d303b961e40408205ed9f60f8cf461074011334c0a3db62039
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xDBC9 10764 bytes
font_01_sfnt_off0000f448.bin
bdf28c0e6acbefa79451a8589863d72cd472178218b0b8490d35726651ce1bba
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF448 17128 bytes
font_02_sfnt_off00012146.bin
9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x12146 16792 bytes