Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 d648f52d010b954b…

MALICIOUS

PDF

87.3 KB Created: 2021-08-11 18:30:00 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-04
MD5: 159d5f8998f4042203cc4434441db8aa SHA-1: aa2442efc8cea563b4b96d48b2d2378f0a986671 SHA-256: d648f52d010b954bdface817e6cb85cb440dfc619226ef240fc98df9314fd9cf
244 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment T1204.002 Malicious Link

This PDF document exhibits multiple indicators of malicious intent, including being flagged by a machine learning classifier and ClamAV. The heuristics suggest it functions as a link farm, directing users to potentially compromised WordPress upload directories and disposable hosting. The 'ClickFix' and 'Password-protected archive' lures indicate a social engineering attempt to trick the user into executing a payload or revealing a password, likely to bypass security measures. No scripts were extracted, but the overall structure points to a phishing or malware distribution scheme.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9996

Heuristics 9

  • 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
  • Password-protected archive handoff high SE_PASSWORD_ARCHIVE_LURE
    Document gives password instructions for an archive or attachment — often used to keep payloads encrypted until after gateway scanning
  • 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.
  • Visual download / call-to-action button lure low SE_DOWNLOAD_BUTTON
    Document contains a call-to-action phrase ('Click here to download', 'Download Now', etc.) — low-signal unless other findings point to a malicious workflow
  • 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://pfgmm.com.au/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160c6ad7e910ce---jutasibukidutadogifo.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://mas.vacations/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160c9752df2478---dukoxotekelojudo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ecbpolska.pl/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/4111385db820b814702e0442c3d1ff77/38392324790.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.euro-fly.eu/userfiles/files/90777340629.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://frederickfollows.co.uk/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607366efa0b83---noxom.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ahlhy.com/uploads/file/131558546248.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://solarhomepage.ch/fckeditor/editor/images/file/patudewugonovofejanuvid.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://xn----8sbpvg0afdbe.xn--p1ai/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/8euetngkarkt2q8jfsv4ai05l7/33949630188.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://lesartsdansmonjardin.com/userfiles/file/20210804211832.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://pattarasawat.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/libezuke.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://aybar-gallery.com/userfiles/files/dofuworaf.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://fogathajtohirek.hu/fckfiles/file/89338229995.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ferrocom-spb.ru/userfiles/files/tixafivupinibo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ledson.ru/upload_picture/45214495304.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://consade.com/userfiles/file/89785573183.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://kasargod.net/uploads/file/warasisaj.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://xn--mietkndigungsrecht-best-gpc.de/userfiles/file/xibavadusizosiwesikejiza.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://celiapopememorial.com/clients/4/45/45605e685ba8a3b32f56966823665796/File/pipenajonuje.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ecoinkworld.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/668a82b70673dfb389b3a48b91883e2a/44627107021.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://realestateconnect.us/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/vqhomf4e9hu644d4hc5c0hq0h0/53503991134.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.1000ena.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160aeeb70f067c---kiwafamabolujuwazine.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Uplcv/~3/YTWXjIUwRh0/uplcv?utm_term=coreldraw+2019+portable+32+bitPDF 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_off0000ee62.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xEE62 11004 bytes
SHA-256: 353f68c2d8ce6a93928a5af8df3c20999a5429c18d1dadcc2d1e1a06563b1b59
font_01_sfnt_off000107fe.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x107FE 18480 bytes
SHA-256: 85514a2cf977e7c3b8d765d8278cf50d5f04672ec3cf3b627daea9821e12d9da
font_02_sfnt_off000136f5.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x136F5 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1