Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 bd1cd19fabd08c14…

MALICIOUS

PDF

81.8 KB Created: 2021-09-18 13:27:34 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-23
MD5: 41bc701f9789e950bf6c4098ef9c4a6e SHA-1: 795c54c47f00ac8cdf68bd5c7dc6a42ef9bb24e3 SHA-256: bd1cd19fabd08c14cf30075e9492a6fd161ff9b0f62a6e15fcfe8b685f4ea4ea
204 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

This PDF was flagged by ML classifiers and ClamAV as malicious, exhibiting characteristics of a social engineering attack (ClickFix). It contains numerous links, many pointing to compromised CMS uploads or disposable hosting, suggesting a link farm designed to redirect users. The document body is heavily obfuscated, but the presence of PDF_URI and PDF_SEO_DISPOSABLE_LINK_FARM heuristics indicates a strong intent to lure users to external sites, likely for further exploitation or phishing.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9846

Heuristics 8

  • 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.
  • Visual download / call-to-action button lure low SE_DOWNLOAD_BUTTON
    Document contains a call-to-action phrase ('Click here to download', 'Download Now', etc.) — low-signal unless other findings point to a malicious workflow
  • 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 http://bulk-supplies.com/userfiles/file/22895560111.pdf In PDF document text
    • https://trieurodata.ro/images/file/sidutabavowabevav.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://stolizstekla.ru/userfiles/file/titafenegadewijokul.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.inhd.com.br/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1613ef5fc13261---44952424074.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://billsky.ee/files/file/37715579935.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://santa.my/images/users/00000000/files/kaxopixavanidedinikiwosid.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://nisahanpin.com/calisma2/files/uploads/wudikozewogo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://shyjjc.com/v15/Upload/file/20219101535511597.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://studioarchperissinotto.eu/userfiles/files/lisaximafirizepawu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://pasted-radio.de/web/files/95093707756.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.sunarpazarlama.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/ocvcukviifv0jlep3tvd9nk5j3/69001211993.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://feuerwehr-mittenwalde.de/mediathek/files/81054252414.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.bordadoindustrial.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/29322957043.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://mangalargalux.com.br/ckfinder/userfiles/files/rijutaxuxala.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://makesrealsense.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/pijufore.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://mimpiindah168.com/contents/files/kazegona.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ylpqzl.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/dotavejanawuk.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://maxflowfans.com/userfiles/file/44836264527.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://rhythmcprandfirstaid.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/fee076bf0331b9c379d3a44991c924c4/wojikijinawapuwava.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://dunajecbiala.pl/upload/File/1426206887.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://insightonafrica.in/userfiles/file/73226593216.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://architettodrabeni.it/userfiles/files/dolezerikikipomer.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://polipack.ru/content/file/49013049754.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://asirakademi.com/resimler/files/vabusesojesitatejumugixe.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://anne-berger.de/sites/anne-berger.de/files/fkcfile/50777496657.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.teaterskolen-efteruddannelsen.dk/ckfinder/userfiles/files/palapisoragolerizefaza.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/skout/mBVl/~3/A3Ryygt5BCM/uplcv?utm_term=adb+universal+driver+windows+10PDF 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_off0000da35.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xDA35 10692 bytes
SHA-256: d516192536abc47611ac4ae52b7a004dc370d7846f7bfbde6069e89ff87174a0
font_01_sfnt_off0000f2ef.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF2EF 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_02_sfnt_off00010b01.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x10B01 18048 bytes
SHA-256: 8befd36a88cc2bd4d156b8b037307f68dc6d7a7efbcb65eeb5f049bd635f7cf5