Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 d39528a66389110c…

MALICIOUS

PDF

86.9 KB Created: 2021-07-30 14:20:24 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-11-22
MD5: 0bc99f9b2bfe29ceec89acd7e73dce32 SHA-1: e3c5b99243e4210329c9af6d1e326ba7394459ce SHA-256: d39528a66389110cf3fc91ecf09c4b43332f73f2976a44557db65861f44bec6d
196 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

This PDF file was flagged as malicious by ML classifiers and ClamAV, indicating a phishing or trojan threat. The 'SE_CLICKFIX' heuristic strongly suggests a social engineering attack designed to bypass macro restrictions by prompting the user to execute commands directly. While the document body is unreadable, the presence of numerous links to potentially compromised WordPress sites and disposable hosting points to a link farm or redirection scheme, likely leading to a malicious payload or phishing page.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9974

Heuristics 7

  • 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
  • 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://www.bluegreenshouseboats.in/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160c52e16b1e1a---ginitebepojitasetibi.pdf In PDF document text
    • https://a2designbg.com/userfiles/file/77010541329.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://salkim.com/userfiles/file/midodaliko.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://fine-trading-knotwork.de/uploads/media/gabakiz.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://amsaneeraus.fi/userfiles/files/94786441486.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://raczcsalad.hu/files/82469939955.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ctners.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/44923422815.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://acryl-bg.com/userfiles/file/rulilewixovizal.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://sharjahcements.com/images/bulk_images/files/kewofir.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://nitexprofi.cz/userfiles/file/dugedefunixofadomago.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://modellszerviz.hu/userfiles/file/suguw.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://gopherandsquirrelcontrol.com/admin/images/file/65525114170.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ihotel2b.com/upfiles/editor/files/40721478510.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://chelseafoodmart.com/uploads/files/32153366844.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.grupohk.com.br/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160cec97fa38cb---8632221083.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://bodwellassociates.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/56bbd329f11917ff698e35d05804fc28/20177979586.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://kamber.dk/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/ceb62487c92f33bb36054919ef951d63/lupalokifitiwowoxevuwemo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.marsagri.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607fab583c58b---kavopafilufasipaneguted.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://kachhiproperties.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/daujmknu536rrdnbk0oe9ge320/nudezupebowomowo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://maxitelt.no/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160b92f4842af3---99159443762.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://gulyaskantin.hu/uploads/frontend/files/gupefiroliwitizifakuribes.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://jeugdopdewetenschapsagenda.nl/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160ca5f8f2620d---87651913057.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://faradtvandor.hu/picture/userfiles/file/fibifemapunuruzulikazuk.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://rolmech-strzelno.pl/Upload/file/98198387452.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.adatechotomasyon.net/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a65a5d6c27c---82313037580.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/skout/mBVl/~3/1xuhb7AK25c/uplcv?utm_term=csr8510+a10+bluetooth+software+windows+7+downloadPDF 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_off0000ec99.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xEC99 11372 bytes
SHA-256: 1c51e60c81d23838d250318f7e40ce8c304b11cfe323d75ec6c2ab5494e1b0bc
font_01_sfnt_off00010784.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x10784 17712 bytes
SHA-256: e2e1a055272d71aa0b96db48aca33fd068e29be7c11fdf6c5973c6e42d332347
font_02_sfnt_off0001360f.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x1360F 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1