Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 fb86004456625250…

MALICIOUS

PDF

89.1 KB Created: 2021-09-01 16:21:46 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-04
MD5: b0ca390dd58b8d6a8aeda780c603afc1 SHA-1: 63b3f05dba047f1e17235f4093dcb6e308f9eef8 SHA-256: fb860044566252505023b45b77d69942dee286cc312c9cfa61b985e25430d2da
196 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

This PDF document was flagged as malicious by ClamAV and an ML classifier. It uses a ClickFix paste-and-run lure. The file embeds a large number of external links characteristic of an SEO link farm, many hosted on compromised CMS upload directories. Specific URLs and indicators for this sample are listed in the indicators section.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9985

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://huntic.ru/uplcv?utm_term=minecraft+how+to+install+a+texture+pack PDF link annotation
    • http://expertsystemgroup.com/file_media/file_image/file/74414968455.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.kissdocs.com.au/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1612e5841e9daf---62879307837.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.frankcapassoandsons.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16090e3aca292f---90119773105.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.gcsystem.pl/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608f739dd7a2f---kivinedegakejolaxu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://generale-bureautique.fr/gdb/files/file/dajokusorifu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://brickbodysupplements.com/newerac2c/userfiles/file/nemazagotokibaribavafisul.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://burstallconrad.com/editor_files/file/60804198935.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://bearings.vn/images/ckeditor/files/13944082428.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://aquaprosmart.com/userfiles/files/81196997170.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://pinotcar.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/f988b026b8be26de5eb3f621be0668d2/wopur.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://issaproject.com/app/views/panel/ckfinder/userfiles/files/45883773410.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://xn--m1age8bh.xn--p1ai/files/file/96930896412.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://harpethvalleypto.org/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/1b72fab8c24a25ec447b9325d9034e79/53750363793.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://sugarfree-gelato.com/upload/file/juxotodudaravovudenaz.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://gimhaejazz.com/fckeditor/userfiles/image/53069862108.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.naturapreserved.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/161275bb73476f---26529529657.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://t2sc.me/userfiles/lijosedetiposeg.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://assignmentmart.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/54678337303.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.shopveriamici.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/pd3ml9gdliq0gbrtg3gs9cr3va/61442277557.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://mispuntossaga.com/campannas/file/jofinunew.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://tavio.ru/files/file/84590470993.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://sellos-mecanicos.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/abc2f6755f687366288b6ff0846a8e6c/vomusewufurituf.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_off0000f11d.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF11D 19468 bytes
SHA-256: 6d9f48b39759bb28a9118d5c0eb584b8c3d760ebbdacd74f04a8b7a36ef56391
font_01_sfnt_off00012408.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x12408 10952 bytes
SHA-256: 38de755108bdbc260953e7f8c6143477db350b2dbee94b2dc0148d428c298f0b
font_02_sfnt_off00013d76.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x13D76 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1