Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 c6c78d99db199034…

MALICIOUS

PDF

82.0 KB Created: 2021-09-07 17:49:48 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-14
MD5: 1ece0a03bc1e96d5860495ba0946fb74 SHA-1: 05292b51809e5e199cf768a963093035132b0ad6 SHA-256: c6c78d99db1990341bb71d400cf0337e1606fdaf5536b34bf9aaa82bcec6db5a
236 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1204.002 Malicious File Execution: User Execution T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

The PDF was flagged by ML classifiers and ClamAV as malicious, exhibiting characteristics of a phishing or trojan delivery. Heuristics indicate it functions as a link farm, directing users to various PDF files hosted on compromised or disposable domains. Crucially, the document employs social engineering tactics, specifically a 'ClickFix' lure, instructing users to copy and paste commands into their terminal, likely to bypass macro restrictions and execute a secondary payload.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9974

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
  • Clipboard command execution lure high SE_CLIPBOARD_COMMAND_LURE
    Document tells the user to copy or paste clipboard content into Run, PowerShell, cmd, or another shell-like execution context
  • 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 http://huiking.cn/uploads/file/240024159314.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://raunlarose.us/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16086da55a32d1---78637478724.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://khunghinhdepphuctin.com/media/ftp/file/vutugutovoxisazokiv.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://holyfamilyhospitals.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/1951821400.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://banderlogclub.ru/Files/file/56235198298.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://gf-location.fr/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609441d689bb0---80563314807.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://piri-piri.pl/ckfinder/userfiles/files/penakitu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.davidwoodpersonnel.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160e77d5ca3026---4196410061.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://rracc.com/file_media/file_image/file/35962546520.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://bilbox.es/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/dbabb710b1784ef65af32c49cd66ad07/8900177818.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://moniimpex.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160ba105b56614---13355358644.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://dges.in/userfiles/file/16143798175.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.citysecurity.org.uk/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/bg1mviq5m36d14tqqet3r9bghd/jitibutimikevu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://sehs67.com/clients/e/e0/e078d4d0076166a7bb489ca3b3a583ab/File/juwezunukemutuge.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://jeugdopdewetenschapsagenda.nl/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160b7fc86adb4a---82938235608.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://myucpb.net/userfiles/file/wupakuretajubifamemenito.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ptaki.info/imgekoprojekty/files/69865250917.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://geteffective.biz/uploadfiles/file/69430076391.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.swissfillon.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/c00a033c45ec1b8f60d0bcac8d350753/87823496601.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://abwrva.com/uploads/files/54754009016.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://tlpnw.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/f6706db05bc4f08b3cc6d15fb60c515b/66292665523.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://timnhanhonline.net/upload/files/65779349804.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://pametnidom.hr/pametne_kuce/userfiles/file/gezogafosesag.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://harpethvalleypto.org/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/0554bd76749cbd203ead6a57c8f00413/latuwokazumege.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/skout/mBVl/~3/1xuhb7AK25c/uplcv?utm_term=adobe+reader+crashes+when+opening+pdf+from+outlookPDF 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_off0000d8ce.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xD8CE 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_01_sfnt_off0000f0e0.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF0E0 17620 bytes
SHA-256: 96e7bae3b990ae38f0a30b24632f200a09a3c5fd64755f10560fbaf6900f5bd7
font_02_sfnt_off00011ed8.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x11ED8 11464 bytes
SHA-256: d3daf05fe66c541c084e8d360aa08103803165be7a91568573ccd3e0468e3677