Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 f67bc4cf745b9c10…

MALICIOUS

PDF

88.3 KB Created: 2021-08-12 03:53:49 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-11
MD5: 521ee1cfea8e5181ac9891e4762750bd SHA-1: 8edddbb3c2543342d170e549cd418741438ee57f SHA-256: f67bc4cf745b9c10210fdb983a5354f0efb35a4ef3415b3d7909bbda4bd30771
196 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF contains numerous links pointing to compromised WordPress upload directories and other disposable hosting, suggesting a link farm designed to distribute malicious files. The 'SE_CLICKFIX' heuristic indicates the document likely instructs users to execute commands, a common social engineering tactic. ClamAV detection and ML classification further support its malicious nature, classifying it as a phishing trojan.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9912

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 https://halobysciton.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a3fb4168ad7---japozopes.pdf In PDF document text
    • https://poolpoint.be/uploads/file/pajev.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://grup-insaat.com/userfiles/file/87833098574.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ruilong-ironwork.com/CKEdit/upload/files/49975083979.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://dansensvenner.dk/imagesfile///vabajav.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://noihoithanhtuan.com/media/ftp/file/latewekoduzisadegeb.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://jurad.eu/files/file/novurusibijabikipezi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.areatransfers.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16106f00493d5f---lubatodubunusorulijaxu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://gelblighting.com/userfiles/files/73714853942.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://kirks-pool.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a399d34b01c---dozigakemumote.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.neslihanonur.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/daf5f8594a75cb200d4c2783db585f64/15200465492.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://hochrainer-elsner.at/upload/files/56231783260.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.combatsim.eu/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160c1937c9dd61---juxada.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://pillshop.ru/uimg/files/tasativigoxiduvuvavasiwe.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://agataklimowska.pl/userfiles/file/ruxupowilimo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://media-get.ru/userfiles/files/54650007080.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://muabannhagiare.net/images/uploads/files/36451235829.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://aeronautike.com/userfiles/file/bukuj.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://dryoucosmeceutical.com/userfiles/files/51859847790.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://100gastro.cz/soubory/files/nejujazinagixusov.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.chicagoalphas.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16087de19c2cb5---15764900748.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://csc0311.com/userfiles/file/20210708151355_5r6uw2.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.annaleehuber.com/content_files/file/36172174322.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://bielwod.com/userfiles/file/30541056208.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://eqonetech.com/upload/userfiles/files/voxosova.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://svltv.in/userfiles/files/29953760919.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://files.ibiza-ferien.de/file/ludepiloraji.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Uplcv/~3/fzgW7-mxBc0/uplcv?utm_term=adobe+acrobat+x+pro+stopped+working+windows+10PDF 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_off0000f2b7.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF2B7 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_01_sfnt_off00010ac9.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x10AC9 17120 bytes
SHA-256: 2915564ca29d6532df03d77348855d8c3f10768d667c64a0ac18c2d135c33b55
font_02_sfnt_off000137ea.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x137EA 11216 bytes
SHA-256: 06c0a4a397a7ea246c78fce8d952837eef9ea1a6df749dd09562cb896cb7be89