Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 e93e5e5526299af9…

MALICIOUS

PDF

86.6 KB Created: 2021-06-28 21:45:37 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-08-25
MD5: dac56a0e102424a6bd8db7c1a41f540e SHA-1: f58399b0aaff3755eab12f74365b9914dd891035 SHA-256: e93e5e5526299af91307555001e8f3a1ed05735af63315a22419a94651303618
236 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

This PDF document was flagged by ClamAV as a phishing trojan. Heuristics indicate it uses social engineering tactics, specifically instructing the user to copy and paste content into a terminal, consistent with ClickFix attacks. The document also contains numerous links to compromised CMS upload storage, suggesting it may be part of a link farm or phishing campaign.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9964

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
  • 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 https://www.justgym.co.za/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/1catb0phln0stohe5iqprdh7lt/fiwenuwalu.pdf In PDF document text
    • https://www.marthatrotts.ca/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16090480f89036---4623528336.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.afamaresme.org/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607418c3c0e89---56806480916.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://xiaohecollege.com/d/files/33081681450.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.louthadventures.ie/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160c93f2a11a28---bikitefupanu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://oneremote.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/65e8d10d3a60d2af8c7661d71d7dbbec/27795159060.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.arc-welding.co.uk/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/dc9suvb83ue5pfol7ipu15jdsv/nekepapogulojutemujesipa.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://lycee-elm.org/userfiles/file/59152919283.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://kaufdeinauto.de/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160cb18d28585a---61669970116.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.adatechotomasyon.net/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16090bd878886c---13523381546.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://miamiuniquelimo.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609d39e79533c---bijabunuke.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.holzbau-hoelzl.at/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16071efd5dec51---63927823163.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.elementstraining.co.uk/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/p7c7lomlueaol9a316r25jgjup/35041625773.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.anclupnapoli.it/userfiles/file/titagenisorir.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.eziblank.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/2049v52b1ul7qk78e4mpa8eqn1/befedufogag.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://nikacarpet.com/My_Project/Hamishe_bahar/ahar_img/files/37378326403.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://pocatellocampfire.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/2q80heqnn206dh58rv5sdkl6jg/82059180479.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://hfdjet.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/2a20244b339985f308aab681b0df6bf1/91920486078.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://manualismedicina.hu/fileok/file/63461191659.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://fortlauderdale-carservice.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1606c98e573737---rowowonawuxozuwa.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://nacyc.jp/Upload/file/xiviwugebagesunoju.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://alpha-th.com/userfiles/file/kobizololive.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/skout/mBVl/~3/BkSY9tpko7c/uplcv?utm_term=bootable+installer+for+macosPDF 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_off0000ea89.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xEA89 19348 bytes
SHA-256: 43f979d6efd71512cdfe6b776038bab9799d5aa21f5757c548b1f0ddca9f5c7c
font_01_sfnt_off00011cbf.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x11CBF 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_02_sfnt_off000134d6.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x134D6 10692 bytes
SHA-256: e7c5d920f6e0896bc69cf7f86214a35de9ed9835a39047045595432c909b2dc8