Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 e3bb029423c4437e…

MALICIOUS

PDF

81.9 KB Created: 2021-09-12 11:12:56 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3)
MD5: 10ec6bbc4c6465678ec764f8d1568f39 SHA-1: 5970565405c0ff1e152028a816f24ef5caac2010 SHA-256: e3bb029423c4437e81815eedcea2bdda408734b1999b7be25a864510da75b7b7
214 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

This PDF file was flagged by multiple heuristics as malicious, including a high-confidence ML classifier and ClamAV detection. The heuristics indicate a social engineering lure, specifically a 'ClickFix' attack, which instructs the user to execute commands via Win+R or a terminal. This suggests the document is designed to bypass macro restrictions and directly prompt the user to run malicious code. The presence of numerous embedded URLs, many pointing to PDF files on potentially disposable domains, further supports a phishing or malware distribution vector.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9974

Heuristics 8

  • ClamAV: Pdf.Phishing.Trojan-d2568dad23a94d95-d2568dad23a94d95-10044375-0 critical CLAMAV_DETECTION
    ClamAV detected this file as malware: Pdf.Phishing.Trojan-d2568dad23a94d95-d2568dad23a94d95-10044375-0
  • 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
  • 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://www.hungarianassociation.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16135ad5a08c2c---57886696904.pdf
    • http://location-venise.com/italie_documents/files/13479938659.pdf
    • http://webinaris.blog/ckfinder/userfiles/publics/files/sofuzokavoleb.pdf
    • http://johnmarzillier.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/36048576693.pdf
    • https://imaggu.com/ci/userfiles/files/82064829507.pdf
    • http://kesherisrael.com/uploadEditor/files/89061699904.pdf
    • https://pinyardim.com/calisma2/files/uploads/57331718619.pdf
    • http://tongshengchem.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/29804400490.pdf
    • http://dragonera.cn/admin/userfiles/file/pikezaniwapabokevu.pdf
    • http://torby.kbo.pl/ckfinder/userfiles/files/41304229574.pdf
    • http://okna-kurska.ru/page_edit/_samples/userfiles/files/bijexaxilafumudu.pdf
    • https://ceccarbotosani.ro/userfiles/file/jegabesovepiwilimimuzasa.pdf
    • https://danfort.lv/userfiles/file/46702721041.pdf
    • https://aquafilling.com/userfiles/file/92496800701.pdf
    • http://waycreon.net/bhaskar/yii/upload/files/vovadetibixidime.pdf
    • http://celyroknaterase.sk/editor_uploads/system/files/kanalabiviluterikiradol.pdf
    • https://www.hippocratio.gr/ckfinder/userfiles/files/zusopom.pdf
    • http://0975811252cool.linker.tw/files/41451989088.pdf
    • https://rebates.forex/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/eg5kv2de923rdrv4bqs0n19h33/21902602581.pdf
    • http://homespakistan.net/magzine/uploadfiles/file/30156165911.pdf
    • http://vietcem.vn/public/default/ckeditor/files/32848997775.pdf
    • https://frontiermyanmar.com/sites/all/libraries/ckfinder/userfiles/files/80765998687.pdf
    • http://findingthegrey.com/userfiles/file/71277208940.pdf
    • http://ciaooo.ru/uploades/userfiles/file/sufipofogukinupewefux.pdf
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/skout/mBVl/~3/zMnd8XtcwSM/uplcv?utm_term=minecraft+advanced+xray+mod
    • http://www.w3.org/1999/02/22-rdf-syntax-ns#
    • http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/
    • http://ns.adobe.com/pdf/1.3/
    • http://ns.adobe.com/xap/1.0/
    • http://ns.adobe.com/xap/1.0/mm/
    • http://ns.adobe.com/xap/1.0/rights/
    • http://dejavu.sourceforge.net
    • http://dejavu.sourceforge.net/wiki/index.php/License

Extracted artifacts 3

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
font_00_sfnt_off0000d8c8.bin
f4603db6a25c373ff40bca391c5ed7b952be7970728009149ffeb5dcf4d04132
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xD8C8 18548 bytes
font_01_sfnt_off0001090e.bin
d303238e1c5bc618e6d2fde83e1ee3a913c95723a9df17e7caae09ac42140124
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x1090E 10696 bytes
font_02_sfnt_off000121a8.bin
9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x121A8 16792 bytes