Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 f0d9abda6b42fef1…

MALICIOUS

PDF

87.9 KB Created: 2021-07-23 03:18:50 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-09-13
MD5: a377a0a3ba028b3096f476c1ad58c61c SHA-1: 5e050c64aef51aafedde19f4f2eded85c306e122 SHA-256: f0d9abda6b42fef1bad03a0a527b47d061bc7993c3f25a6223896f5895141cd9
196 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

This PDF document was flagged by multiple heuristics, including a high-confidence ML classifier and ClamAV detection, indicating malicious intent. The 'SE_CLICKFIX' heuristic suggests a social engineering attack designed to trick the user into executing a command, likely to download and execute a secondary payload. The document contains numerous URLs, many pointing to compromised CMS upload storage, which are likely used to host or distribute malicious content.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9986

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://kovosluzba-praha.cz/res/file/47828565989.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://lifestyleufa.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/c9f582562f55212b528567748f4873f3/zatudam.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.fattyweng.com.sg/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a6c4aee2e05---xokulabiletuxalaw.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://makaifruits.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160df4669e6508---korolegibadim.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://petroblend.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609f6dc339101---walatezasanorefis.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://iccj.jp/images/uploads/fckeditor/file/moneseb.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://bushregenerators.biz/userfiles/files/17670670945.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://dubigroup.com/admin/fckeditor/editor/filemanager/connectors/upload/file/lodenaxi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ukrainski-rosyjski.pl/userfiles/file/zaliwobizaz.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://sg-design.top/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/4636ea30b47b7472d203cf4ce222605f/lukemudixojijeb.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://primax.fr/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/5tjc46ethpn1epne5rour6nrh5/fitosozogusogodudifowuzo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.kalirich.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/q8fltohiamdfe5nbp74d9k5mn2/lezaderi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://chipublichouse.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/68618175880.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.dazzlingdecor.co.uk/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609801522c12b---siseluzafexowuzelufe.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://nc-israel.ru/upload/files/26198659538.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://bistro-8.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/d7bdd04142cb2bb81792cd13492311a5/gixusunalimelenusupujixap.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://stlnsk.ru/uploads/file/xipunalivarug.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://hsegroup.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/gvqjte9qo40q34jl7r39134ou5/49531337066.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://bilagroup.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16075801125835---lopifaxegamojum.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.karenlovelee.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608a0958726a0---goruwidikasaw.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://friluftsgruppen.se/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160c1160231bf4---vazojasusof.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://xn--bren-mgenwil-gcbf.ch/sites/default/files/fck-uploads/file/filulepugupupol.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.accidentinjurylascruces.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/9ivdrdvpt1hkjfqik8ekog1d1m/pupoxaga.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.tobywells.org/media/fckdir/file/vozufugoni.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Uplcv/~3/3CAf4wW3hvY/uplcv?utm_term=minecraft+how+to+copy+a+mapPDF 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_off0000f253.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF253 10724 bytes
SHA-256: da5dbec046d0a2993ed9af643b2a7198602692964df1075f0eb5d006365006e2
font_01_sfnt_off00010ade.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x10ADE 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_02_sfnt_off000122f0.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x122F0 17468 bytes
SHA-256: da403a95b7b9494072ae7bdf69c27e789d7beecf62f7785ff2a3bd404d1fd3c4