Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 c59880d8080e0fb2…

MALICIOUS

PDF

84.0 KB Created: 2021-09-22 20:13:31 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-27
MD5: 2fe4773e715e82effddc5bcc39bc55ef SHA-1: cda038d45d0a962bccd501546bf3f753ca6f5dba SHA-256: c59880d8080e0fb2e2bdda961ce44e50960e0aa180da03d8a24d08da1ab90622
216 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The file is detected as a malicious PDF by ClamAV and an ML classifier. Heuristics indicate it's a social engineering attack (ClickFix) that instructs the user to run a command, likely to download a secondary payload from one of the embedded URLs. The document body is heavily obfuscated and unreadable, but the heuristics strongly suggest a phishing or malware delivery attempt.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9951

Heuristics 8

  • 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
  • Clickable URI points to raw IP address medium PDF_URI_IP_LITERAL
    PDF contains a clickable HTTP(S) action whose host is a literal IPv4 address. Legitimate documents normally link to named domains; raw-IP destinations are common in disposable phishing and malware-delivery infrastructure.
  • 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://oniceh.ru/uplcv?utm_term=how+to+make+your+lock+screen+have+sound PDF link annotation
    • http://www.binghan.my/userfiles/file/53340694872.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://booking-news.hkdnracing.com/webroot/editor-uploads/files/gifemawizopekovugevaruzef.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://teamwork-poetschke.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/87276545136.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://nb-magnet.com/upload/files/72459068754.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://viboot.traigiongthuha.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/rawep.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://hoangminhceramics.com/app/webroot/uploads/files/bunozegexepepeleve.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://vicotelecom.vn/static/source/images/file/bofol.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://predit.ru/admin/ckfinder/userfiles/files/72685559236.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://104.156.58.56/~web2inbox/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1614b3fc509b05---62191005939.pdfPDF link annotation
    • http://studioguatta.it/userfiles/files/jagipenutedivi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://domario.ru/userfiles/file/juduvofumujowawijuwibufa.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://gpe-el.pro/ckfinder/userfiles/files/38717428974.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ever-progress.dacola.com/upload/files/bazomomuwinapodezuz.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://carthink.org/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1613de8606479a---92838859561.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://kystop.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/d7d9e57fd44b5314fc6e549951cf8fc1/40461626154.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://gradn.ru/uploades/fckeditorfile/57187600136.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.swx.global/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/34d7ae522add717e1678b65d16b04c56/sikemikalomidedazo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://plasy.com/uploads/file/nekow.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://busangh.com/attfile/fckimg/file///202109046321_239730017.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ohmytour.kr/FileData/ckfinder/files/20210915_F7A4474CE71C2223.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://hellnocancershow.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16144cce9e6feb---kopodojewotanudupimew.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.mondzorgvesa-voorschoten.nl/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/161483d4f2ba66---57489816745.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://natyabio.com/uploadfiles/19731721723.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://delve-cr.com/uploads/33002064217.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://stcatherine.ac.ug/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1613cc54d46149---76436908822.pdfIn 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://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_off0000de1a.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xDE1A 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_01_sfnt_off0000f631.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF631 10992 bytes
SHA-256: 001d88284cb63250a0c2076b28854a358d6a64e6e84f850af8546d81c48b8fbe
font_02_sfnt_off00010f93.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x10F93 20036 bytes
SHA-256: e18d0e271ebea0ae73b511a44ceaf1eb1979af917ac9daa48480772b8ed24e17