Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 f1efdfebc9b10045…

MALICIOUS

PDF

86.3 KB Created: 2021-09-01 09:04:34 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-05
MD5: 28d016e8e29b9de6175a95640f21c3cb SHA-1: bfd498c9120df7a29bca10129cef1a9e9219db9b SHA-256: f1efdfebc9b100459400424562dcbe88c1f237c0e32b16a1505488d0c7773b9d
196 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The sample is identified as malicious by ClamAV and an ML classifier. The 'SE_CLICKFIX' heuristic indicates a social engineering attack that instructs the user to press Win+R or paste a command, likely to download and execute a secondary payload. The PDF contains numerous links to potentially compromised websites, suggesting a link farm used for distributing malicious content.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9976

Heuristics 7

  • 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.
  • 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 http://be-now.pl/userfiles/file/mewukelubiga.pdf In PDF document text
    • https://e-lightingcontrols.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/414b2ec4180bc6c9838b9e0c31dcee26/bejedirakulowiteki.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://cuacuonductudong.com/upload/files/83715573518.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://smithmurdock.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16102c4218ffbd---93501279032.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://world-green-hope.com/uploads/files/godigonopoliwesawuvenomut.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://smobiil.eu/userfiles/files/zofobe.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://glearningsolutions.com/userfiles/files/89899342679.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://alwaysfavorentertainment.com/clients/879371/File/24853950700.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://jaatkinson.com/userimages/85226588411.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://canadiancontractorservices.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/qv3pu27b7kds6ue9lqonp9g316/dapavidaninezisigobipow.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://tamlaproject.com/userData/board/file/41889763365.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://urparitet.ru/admin/ckfinder/userfiles/files/92145064270.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.ideaklinikbakirkoy.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160ee60fb8353a---30999051929.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://thepokewave.com/uploads/files/fomeberoderanum.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://3dreamstudios.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/909152d5d89009dab71b8ac39bc7dc0e/63079282856.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://drive4smilesquebec.com/clients/f/f5/f58105ca183540932673f5bf18e62671/File/94720561978.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.espymetcalf.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160b731973c125---35508999351.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.pilonidalsinus.gen.tr/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160790a1a0d8a2---18980474945.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://hutbephottaihaiphong24h.com/upload/files/69123120233.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://saigondome.com/uploads/userfiles/file/mobemi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://placc.info/up_image/33467451216.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.espymetcalf.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609c266c1a40d---dubeturirazexovagoge.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://yziact.fr/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/rcq4kmafp31u1pdf15r3kk96ks/jokuwilaloxori.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/skout/mBVl/~3/Om9ozkHLxGw/uplcv?utm_term=how+to+change+your+mouse+sizePDF 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_off0000ea2f.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xEA2F 18580 bytes
SHA-256: 130e8f550cad0f29cf82a9ac4984712b7003b8c930c85bf3f9e46243115f0794
font_01_sfnt_off00011a13.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x11A13 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_02_sfnt_off0001322a.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x1322A 10980 bytes
SHA-256: 7e41ff234015985b019466f89d0f467dfa5dff24022aca1840f47e3aa0ce5d6e