Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 d0ac5b95737d0b21…

MALICIOUS

PDF

98.9 KB Created: 2021-07-02 13:28:59 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-09-17
MD5: 8162cd7bdc0565f1f26d61e717a7b4e9 SHA-1: f043e2fdd10c00316fb1d867cfb566ade6216913 SHA-256: d0ac5b95737d0b21d972c989930aa9a6b495b74b67748eb57aaa57ad8df385f0
236 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1204.002 Malicious File T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment T1059.003 Windows Command Shell

The file was detected as malicious by ClamAV and an ML classifier. High-severity heuristics indicate social engineering tactics, specifically a 'ClickFix' lure that instructs the user to copy and paste commands into a terminal. This strongly suggests the document is designed to bypass macro restrictions and trick the user into executing a malicious command, likely to download and run a second-stage payload.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9928

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
  • 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 https://forumhotel.by/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/ficku1tlo3m48mfpf1r8ioetr7/97025536799.pdf In PDF document text
    • https://webmodels.studio/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1606d9ec63beef---8937958459.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://2greenchicks.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/894e6d63066681e65cdf2ea336299de0/95786982387.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://freeski.hu/freeski/file/64885524119.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://immodraft.nrw/images/architekten_agentur_images_/file/12775871729.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.birapart.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160d5c5c6d2a0f---77766460525.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://midel.me/userfiles/file/jogini.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://abwingssuffolk1.com/uploads/files/8200029020.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://bjoybrands.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160c4903ca5757---jenegujibiwaturol.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://amatnieks.com/pictures/image/xogavadobebikej.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://lichnyiybrand.ru/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a440f583b85---xesenuda.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://wavesmaroochydore.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/cjc182s46she7tl2imej99heb0/sotanakefagek.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.groupenahno.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/ubphq20tb16ovmlfsh3151ualt/29774309957.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ambientltg.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/823a2a6c3e9a0b49073d8d5e3f5c0d02/kumidarukipazudupixumod.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://jncs.kr/page_data/file/20210627225449.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://kayakbranson.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607e044581b43---36846299915.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://angelojrobles.com/admin_initial_test/userfiles/file/39556368190.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://szzxwx.com/Upload/Upload/file/2021611204436645.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://thetitangroup.ca/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/772df56f678d769065dc143f874b0a89/99622152606.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cualuoihoanmy.com/uploads/userfiles/file/sunasujetegi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://kennyre.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160c378dadcd59---dinowepusagajef.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://wksystems.net/HotelEstimator/userfiles/file/mufelogesuv.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://netpage.info/userfiles/file/xokisisiniwofu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://sbnjl.com/userfiles/files/6704648428.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Uplcv/~3/FevRqgeaUVY/uplcv?utm_term=how+to+mute+screen+share+discordPDF 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_off00011e8d.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x11E8D 18440 bytes
SHA-256: df72db86ba6f4732265d9baf85d795fff82db18b8350fc9cf15ae68894cad4f7
font_01_sfnt_off00014d8e.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x14D8E 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_02_sfnt_off000165a5.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x165A5 10764 bytes
SHA-256: 4dc50cce073484c1b64e29c3cb217fbc4c4ec8b07f8388cc6647aeec404690ca