Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 ef9aca06a0e32eb8…

MALICIOUS

PDF

85.9 KB Created: 2021-07-04 01:00:15 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-09-13
MD5: 7f5d7e987c0719adf700672664958644 SHA-1: 9eec51e97bad88fa3335588b2edba68ac5ed8d2b SHA-256: ef9aca06a0e32eb8918039cd04f1c37d7bffa74cf9fb5e3d52c3f2cabebdcf36
196 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

The PDF contains numerous links to compromised WordPress sites and disposable hosting, suggesting a link farm designed to redirect users to malicious content. The 'SE_CLICKFIX' heuristic indicates social engineering tactics to trick users into executing commands, likely to download and execute a second-stage payload. The ML classifier and ClamAV detection strongly indicate malicious intent.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9952

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 https://ketchas.ru/uplcv?utm_term=download+minecraft+java+edition+for+android+free+download PDF link annotation
    • http://visualpaint.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608dc0a9b850f---buwemose.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://master.plus/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/ec5db55da21ed3818f361bed98892b77/nafes.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.uppld.org/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16076ef8e853a9---ximenakuram.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://rencontres-icare.org/userfiles/file/zawobujulupe.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://mfplus.ba/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160835d80db4d6---gakibirisubilaju.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://jollytime.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/a8ab4e93a65d981072acea39333d5193/29022731853.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://amalighting.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/9a693a458b317405c6feab099a5af1ea/jemalijetujakaxefatoripaf.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://givemeit.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/5ea6a7dce33dd721ef20694813d706be/74550015371.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.rydalmereprestige.com.au/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/up6trc16tktthfj11dfnsdaqs1/82150732709.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://stromzeleny.cz/file/xazadavutetedafu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.travelticket.com.au/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/tgs3ob0rmjq6jl187vdmi4c9ii/baxarekezamugikobajapew.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ahkjt.com/upfile/file/xafuduvugusoxomiro.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://kasintorn.com/images/upload/files/sadet.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://bloomland.com/sites/bloomland.com/files/wilavopavomiz.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.hkwebdesign.com.hk/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160da0689ab31a---84061216953.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.sunarpazarlama.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/n3duk6jk86bab06qkektqqs4v3/66012839661.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://magnachip.cn/userfiles/file/20210516182913.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://forter.vn/hinhanh/file/47866394594.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://alkhairi.co.uk/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/582b180734697aa1f88a178e92b5c381/35528070265.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://drstevealbrecht.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/056cb3d6898f9ace81283791eba5c0fb/55260564623.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://akdenizokullari.k12.tr/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/jt64aviena9o84bfke9cb97i7l/16834177260.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://dreamscapes.ca/dream_scapes/userfiles/files/luderoremo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://daaeportrett.no/upload/file/nidurudotipat.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_off0000e97c.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xE97C 18508 bytes
SHA-256: d4939f1fc63e452a446158ea08bbbe5bbf8483cfadbb45e65fddc5f1ddfcabe2
font_01_sfnt_off0001192d.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x1192D 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_02_sfnt_off00013144.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x13144 10752 bytes
SHA-256: 3c1b3f8d576c5084047796a25e8b08c2dccdc5b49df5295c925d0882f2b789bd