Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 c6b890eff23d35e8…

MALICIOUS

PDF

90.2 KB Created: 2021-07-02 09:59:36 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-11
MD5: 64bf3687b39afaab2351ca9a3aec6d8a SHA-1: 1fc36d416e974a855b968621705a8e8743f5a02e SHA-256: c6b890eff23d35e81f58e5d7865f4278a55068863d17f399cad882ca06576780
196 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment T1203 Exploitation for Client Execution

The sample is a PDF document flagged by ClamAV as a phishing trojan. Heuristics indicate it's a social engineering attack (ClickFix) that instructs the user to run a command, likely to download and execute a second-stage payload from URLs such as https://oniceh.ru/uplcv?utm_term=windows+licence+will+expire+soon+fix. The ML classifier also strongly indicated maliciousness.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9835

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://oniceh.ru/uplcv?utm_term=windows+licence+will+expire+soon+fix PDF link annotation
    • http://www.virtualaid.eu/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16090b84d5655a---83105709004.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://altiro.nl/home/tjerk/file/teputitoja.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://gsoam.ge/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16088d5679eabd---55613131336.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://heilpraxis-pankow.de/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608492495a317---20757503874.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.majoriscambio.com.br/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607280d2ad50c---80080576951.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://myphi.biz/nbloom/fckuploads/file/nezen.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://alnadaoil.com/userfiles/file/wewidezanarur.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://marciasmithconsulting.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/a156ff552d2d59c5ac253246eb32d9c1/86031929509.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://worksafeorg.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/f6tu2tcr373988biqbq7urlk00/20871718304.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://pansophers.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16074d45f30444---89781107687.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.sandzthabapanel.co.za/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160b811155be1f---47712222474.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://omonetach.pl/foto/ilustracje/file/nebulor.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://thefertilizerequipment.com/d/files/34661175934.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://fotojursa.cz/userfiles/file/55340378013.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://iideree.org/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160c72a082a226---46947964458.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://55pluscommunityspecialist.com/userfiles/files/seridujuzemenumuweburusi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://shotclock.ca/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/78af3e5966fac99e55bfe2e5f353926b/61004966970.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://arohitourandtravels.com/userfiles/file/12010102000.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ferado.vn/userfiles/file/nowewifunagexuvoju.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://postscriptproductions.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160d0ad3d55924---36964618488.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://zanhotel.ro/beficientconsultingFiles/file/xojisixiduxivudazuk.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://balance-global.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/p05s9r5c8i5j66abo317ts7s8o/46805159891.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cristalparkhotel.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/zenivejomoga.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://vom-ragnaroek.de/uploads/file/19583374808.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://fieldofgreen.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/970855851b3eb015acad369a13f64a05/fudidojukofor.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.enterpriselighting.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/3d05dcb7e2b78f955419c99f0bbf774c/6657534424.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_off0000ef9d.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xEF9D 29140 bytes
SHA-256: 23ec4aba3462141e1fccb17039c3ae812d59c914873bdb4840a0f4ba6ab9ff7f
font_01_sfnt_off0001294b.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x1294B 10536 bytes
SHA-256: 8ef06333b30e1529630e68d828beba738736a6e71a04d681f1871d0d0c50edf2
font_02_sfnt_off0001416e.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x1416E 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1