Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 e46a7a5450f8a015…

MALICIOUS

PDF

82.9 KB Created: 2021-09-13 12:12:35 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-05
MD5: 6dfb8cc9fa3e3b244c09c10c8b26b5ff SHA-1: 0dc250daf7d77abd2bbc5b44bbee3ce7dbedd781 SHA-256: e46a7a5450f8a015b5ac59045cb9a927fb9b7ba5498cd2c2a6388af7cbf99ae2
204 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

This PDF document is classified as malicious by ClamAV and an ML classifier, indicating a high likelihood of malicious intent. The 'SE_CLICKFIX' heuristic suggests the document attempts to socially engineer the user into executing a command directly, likely to download and run a second-stage payload. Multiple heuristics point to the document being a link farm hosted on compromised or disposable domains, further supporting a malicious distribution workflow.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9974

Heuristics 8

  • 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.
  • 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://allytemp.ru/uplcv?utm_term=mx+bikes+apk PDF link annotation
    • https://fieldofgreen.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/2d1ab21c828f1173f68e2754dfa6b3d5/fukepesokakiboginu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://boldino-hotel.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/34309438052.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://markfarolaw.com/customer/3/d/9/3d947ad6ce2568d98b832ccf5548371bFile/maxodokedupa.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://majubesar.org/contents/files/bopoledepuka.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://psfund.org/public/uploads/files/cms_files/sederunixaji.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://korzayithalat.com/spot/admin/fckeditor/userfiles/file/tobefewinorinezise.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://richmore.kr/uploadfile/fckeditor/file/39091690378.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://extremedriveline.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/98510558040.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://osoboebludo.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/682854537.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://giadinhmedia.com/uploads/files/2133950973.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.ctmmaximoravenna.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/1002906363.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://lnpro.in/ckfinder/userfiles/files/sinomejibewu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://vtracauto.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16139d4e61a3c9---dunaseterodivilamena.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://betonkeritesek.eu/Content/files/jalenetezomora.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://alacarte-design.de/userfiles/file/15478732074.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.rlktechniek.nl/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1613e088d14ba3---vobukonijirus.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://nangluongvada.com/uploads/files/50289301722.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://abwplazaview.com/uploads/files/bizijizebu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://vector-food.pl/userfiles/file/1160766534.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://budaors.varosom.hu/userfiles/files/vozolugis.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://mysilo.com/upload/ckfinder/files/dalemeteli.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://harteron.ee/userfiles/file/95215461569.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://mayjack.com/upload/files/5481480198.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://alrabbancapital.com/file/files/saduzezeganezodele.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://tes-sys.com/uploads/ckfinder/files/20210909/16311307276540.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_off0000e010.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xE010 18272 bytes
SHA-256: eb0a5bd175606e25dace8844e4b935b6cec3fd3086df21a7f9990ea69bf1f47e
font_01_sfnt_off00010fdc.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x10FDC 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_02_sfnt_off000127f3.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x127F3 10104 bytes
SHA-256: f71981a3fca1355617a87603d3c7961d2a956d55bda00e4ac5e4a6f89c307512