Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 fe8590cc9c4c31e3…

MALICIOUS

PDF

94.1 KB Created: 2021-06-26 19:51:44 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-08-20
MD5: 72bffa8ae6428bf72e92317138356bae SHA-1: 7bd8e80247f138e1cd512eecefd8f21dac4dedbb SHA-256: fe8590cc9c4c31e343c3836d87902c1897e139c67c0760adb9abd55e19070889
236 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF contains multiple heuristics indicating malicious intent, including ML classification, a lure for clipboard command execution, and a 'ClickFix' social engineering attack. These point to an attempt to trick the user into running a command, likely to download and execute a further payload. ClamAV also detected this file as a phishing trojan.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9956

Heuristics 8

  • ClamAV: Pdf.Phishing.Trojan-d2528dad23a95d95-d2528dad23a95d95-10044376-0 critical CLAMAV_DETECTION
    ClamAV detected this file as malware: Pdf.Phishing.Trojan-d2528dad23a95d95-d2528dad23a95d95-10044376-0
  • Clipboard command execution lure high SE_CLIPBOARD_COMMAND_LURE
    Document tells the user to copy or paste clipboard content into Run, PowerShell, cmd, or another shell-like execution context
  • 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://krisoc.ru/uplcv?utm_term=how+to+run+shell+script+in+linux+terminal PDF link annotation
    • https://www.cukoyem.com.tr/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/sj0ldtfu38hr3ol1qt32hinio7/fofasokunawifaderi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://springswellness.net/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16076d06f7f997---dedigodaborupofasa.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://2girlstrippin.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607356b728419---musivujaxa.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://luckyassessoria.com.br/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608dce8296731---12811516806.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://agermag.ro/mm/file/nuravopisesenijisokireni.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://sugarfree-gelato.com/upload/file/66858642598.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://wypelnienia.kratex.pl/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/8c200b6e7dff6fcd46b22061a6bd20ce/negiluxaz.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://eksan-ltd.com/userfiles/file/banalorukugonafujovakuj.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://sellerflows.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/b7a79558907e0c0fb49ad5a868fbe3ab/92928284443.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.higher-energy-trampolineclub.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160b5e71ea68b6---30843352274.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://samiznojmo.cz/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/236abb58471b993f6109daacb1375d67/deripusadovapugeduxuvorew.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://georgiamusicpartners.org/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/31c28abb169aeff99e1c3341761ffb7a/68764592021.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://hani-bee.com/userfiles/files/dojuxagir.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://emke.hu/uploads/ckfinder/userfiles/files/gebimuzaxagib.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.peeryhotel.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/e3a835e57c1013264246169b09628083/65036607678.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://doellefjelde-mussemarked.dk/images/newsmail/file/79791713451.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.loockuniformes.com.br/home/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16079a3efe633e---33046215747.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://atthaya.com/file_media/file_image/file/tedekibabag.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.trafikyaren.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/7ikp59qia1km1rgv8uvk8pj054/gevememazarepeviwelexo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.putnamtaxi.net/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a517143d2bb---topoxokosogixik.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://mikepromedia.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/5b0mqbt1ah0i7pqbr0g9rhm313/sanovamamakenonanuzeboti.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://wurstfargo.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/c1a80a0990e6a3c90bcc30e3fd10b9ca/46309544896.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_off0001087d.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x1087D 18452 bytes
SHA-256: bca132fcd94e444fbe223f8166cb5cb1ceb1a81ee8b20e494d6e4c0148ccdde2
font_01_sfnt_off000139b0.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x139B0 10916 bytes
SHA-256: 1e0c5f05545bf03833401491b3c9df520c037bfd7439110eb3bd2214e06e3f87
font_02_sfnt_off000152d5.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x152D5 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1