Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 d69bbfa9cc50b5f1…

MALICIOUS

PDF

88.7 KB Created: 2021-07-01 23:38:21 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-09-13
MD5: 99e6823c51247d885a20cd3facf36a99 SHA-1: 86fb45fb11e533163a373a3ea1274ffdf8432ea5 SHA-256: d69bbfa9cc50b5f195700ef3e54339b622501342cc4d11907c2428d83009c0dc
196 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF contains a link farm pointing to multiple compromised WordPress sites, likely intended to trick users into downloading a malicious file. The SE_CLICKFIX heuristic indicates the document may instruct users to execute commands, further supporting a social engineering attack. ClamAV detection as Pdf.Phishing.Trojan confirms the malicious nature of the file.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9947

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://erkerlaender.de/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160bf8d7a9cd2a---9918135281.pdf In PDF document text
    • https://holzhaus-suedtirol.it/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609ce2fb31e02---bobibotogaxosapi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://archcosmeticstudio.com.au/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/9d7c416a20b79cbb14b7a55a7967f9eb/3109326306.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://chinocorporatechallenge.com/clients/6216/File/pafenexiwametakove.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://onlineticketreview.com/images/file/70221037222.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://gbeequestriansurfaces.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/t72r5ukvb7i7tng6p93ck2k7ua/sojezolanipagerul.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://totaleclipsenv.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160cdf60d0da74---70941929382.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://clumba-indoor.ru/files/files/37659272463.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ruihuitax.com/files/file/43043684833.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://woonhuislift.info/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160c491418b20b---xapote.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ifacemount.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/t3rqv1ujnkr39ordh1fagj5t18/fifejikatunuvivovawedok.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://chicagoportablexray.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160afc3ddc05d1---17716942255.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://gilendor.cz/userfiles/file/9351761558.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://anvlaw.com/userfiles/file/novuzelolegajeledadixim.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://aqbnb.com/uploadfile/file/52778416211.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://fotossc.pl/_files/file/17438430771.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://trenermichal.pl/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160840764925fb---zobemineb.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://fietenhaardenenkachels.nl/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160acdae140a9f---sakefaroripijibakubutag.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.kinoimaging.nl/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160775c4745f64---38815511570.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://comlark.ru/userfiles/files/40360680941.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.danvillern.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/aueo0aft5044cltvfol36jo5p2/96529415972.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://arnetbilgisayar.com/upload/ckfinder/files/17924222182.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://pima-alarms.rs/slicice/file/xupamito.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.teppiche-waschen-hamburg.de/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160af9c8aa2448---fajawovazugojilosogubo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/1eyvgo/aqOO/~3/6naE_Nh8_CY/uplcv?utm_term=irql+not+less+or+equal+windows+7PDF 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_off0000e8b6.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xE8B6 10572 bytes
SHA-256: ea9bc4770a4450ed48b75341fd717630b04ba27db9856fa8813405a503b94e56
font_01_sfnt_off000100ce.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x100CE 28600 bytes
SHA-256: 703c8ebacae561b1b5ff7e9375ab27e21a36215951aa74a4d389be29fff88e85
font_02_sfnt_off00013b93.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x13B93 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1