Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 c83e39c586643cc2…

MALICIOUS

PDF

76.8 KB Created: 2021-08-16 23:50:46 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-11-22
MD5: 6a9d75da5ac34e056ee56f1c7558be85 SHA-1: a921bed47e4239c54f90e0c5cf23d675d5f62e0b SHA-256: c83e39c586643cc2dda38f341b9b9c49fa1b5082cb44ef801c8966011f6bf04f
196 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

This PDF was flagged by ML classifiers and ClamAV as malicious. The 'SE_CLICKFIX' heuristic indicates social engineering tactics designed to trick the user into running arbitrary commands, likely to download and execute a secondary payload. Several URLs were extracted, some pointing to compromised WordPress sites, suggesting a link farm used for distribution.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9943

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 http://blog.crowdly.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160713cedd8f83---66424078270.pdf In PDF document text
    • https://bustotoronto.com/userfiles/file/28617707281.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://xn--e1aazeoc7d.xn--p1ai/images/shared/file/34184985159.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://safarang.com/basefile/files/rujadefobiruwikomu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.amiunaorchestra.ro/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1606c81664a590---23365402315.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feltshoe.com/userfiles/file/setuzatasadanu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://baodinhsolar.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/72p6cv1pqutdgnr6cjifcpj9tv/83906460463.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://meandnetworking.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/95509536002.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://growyourmoney.in/userfiles/files/16114405901.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://sad-azov.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/c6f476decb3ee52565e5cfddcfcc4ec7/totumogegapomilomib.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://colegiosantarosa.com/uploads/imagem/file/5736198240.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://bukharageorgia.com/sites/default/files/file/nefen.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cvsc.co/userfiles/file/43826057817.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://hasyo.net/files/file/90520221695.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://riverasphotovideo.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160707ced3f281---36277865259.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://bursaceyizgelinlik.com/images_upload/files/51903975323.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://rmdschoolandcollege.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/0a40463eeeaa30980780f5d6418ecaa1/74599876590.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://mimpi1pusat.com/contents//files/24949389780.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://hieuchuan.com/upload/files/balaguzuwexuka.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://jamuiboe.com/webroot/upload_media/56317723208.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://mobspace.xyz/web/img/podborky/files/gepamapaxufe.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://immobilieninvestors.eu/userfiles/file/gigikofig.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://dipinkrishna.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/161078751b2ecb---jezifosurifitodotu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://provia-events.de/pics/fotos/1/file/tipuzixiruvirujanukavug.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://kazenergy.kz/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608529878a6ea---nerazugagufivasasumas.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Uplcv/~3/cv9VXjIrmdE/uplcv?utm_term=minecraft+skyblock+map+download+1.8.9PDF 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_off0000c540.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xC540 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_01_sfnt_off0000dd57.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xDD57 11700 bytes
SHA-256: 2bc03a9d23ce0bf38e8022a7cdf782697657f10e63583249c5298069c61ba2b9
font_02_sfnt_off0000f92a.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF92A 16948 bytes
SHA-256: 74d0848c4931864a8a91a5e6c0d79a572910a63f8b654c4448734d3dcfb130f4