Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 d90c930dba1adbd7…

MALICIOUS

PDF

81.9 KB Created: 2021-09-23 12:17:42 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-27
MD5: 4075eedca0f5a4894d2076271a14dfce SHA-1: b77404f3431ba5914ea4cf4ef489061d6833e552 SHA-256: d90c930dba1adbd7988db06ed7501cee0d7e63ff6c012ed750bb1f276dab3d9c
196 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment T1203 Exploitation for Client Execution

The PDF file was flagged by ClamAV as a phishing trojan and exhibits characteristics of a social engineering attack, specifically a 'ClickFix' variant. It contains numerous links, many pointing to disposable hosting or compromised CMS upload directories, suggesting an attempt to distribute malicious content. The ML classifier also strongly indicated maliciousness.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9975

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://wxbeimei.cn/upload/ckimg/files/202109160821237022.pdf In PDF document text
    • https://smobiil.eu/userfiles/files/fesekafigiwukox.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://rioairporttransfer.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/50262797949.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ptairsupply.com/userfiles/file/ludojojeraso.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://sgo-bage.com/public/files/files/71554964893.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://konberdbio.com/upload/files/7256064502.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://hotelgiottotorino.com/userfiles/files/17512625081.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://mixline.ru/img/lib/file/xagokakupubajusora.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://nceptionsolutions.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/04e74d0268fe0a2a5fad7ec63df3b259/63590465194.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://xn--90afqerdlt1f.xn--p1ai/admin/ckfinder/userfiles/files/82903761868.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://villanakarin.com/userfiles/files/vulufopevuluwufafoz.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://fotobolfestmeny.hu/mvc/userfiles/file/redogug.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://eia-edu.com/userfiles/file/24137702937.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://hsaltsj.com/uploads/files/93640671354.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://seibyou-koujien.com/files/files/78124539508.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://christopherspubandgrille.com/userfiles/files/92250699599.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://trieuduong.com/images/Download/jofogota.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.businesswatchguardingservices.co.uk/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/r4ab8413b31h0g1n38mhh8qoqu/43532349871.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://titusauto.hu/kepek/file/28979779726.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://nmcs.ca/userfiles/files/99594569820.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.jobsincrete.gr/images/_user_na/file/23979144159.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://pavcargo.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/3b85c6f34e4cbef2e317bbbac0997a69/puzawavafodenixeko.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.cavice.fi/tiedostot/files/59943849710.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.davinci.dk/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16136d75e0eb95---fomonopukigarokazemejur.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Uplcv/~3/LPIa9PGmDLg/uplcv?utm_term=install+ubuntu+in+dual+boot+with+windows+10PDF link annotation
    • http://perfecturology.cafe24.com/upload/editor/imagefile/vabodotobene.pdfIn PDF document text
    • 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_off0000dcc7.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xDCC7 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_01_sfnt_off0000f4de.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF4DE 10564 bytes
SHA-256: 4308f5cac34c3cc8a3201561f93777629a4dfa72f301b90996deb9a398eab2c0
font_02_sfnt_off00010ce8.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x10CE8 17556 bytes
SHA-256: 355fd28a054cb769d2ff7644e2117f88629cfec0129866d47399ec691c983dcc