Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 43ed35b9bde2c581…

MALICIOUS

PDF

77.9 KB Created: 2021-09-18 10:16:41 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-12
MD5: 272c57338d38445be245e10e5935e854 SHA-1: 775d8166e3a5ef02d29712df49b98f2308f1e6bd SHA-256: 43ed35b9bde2c581da793aa423f35a0524a019c9f55ea967601f8243f3424bd5
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

The PDF file was flagged by ClamAV as Pdf.Phishing.Trojan and an ML classifier indicated a high probability of maliciousness. The document contains numerous external URIs, many pointing to compromised CMS upload storage or disposable hosting, suggesting a link farm designed to redirect users to malicious content. No scripts were extracted, but the overall structure and URL patterns are indicative of a phishing or malware distribution lure.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9984

Heuristics 6

  • ClamAV: Pdf.Phishing.Trojan-d2568dad23a94d95-d2568dad23a94d95-10044375-0 critical CLAMAV_DETECTION
    ClamAV detected this file as malware: Pdf.Phishing.Trojan-d2568dad23a94d95-d2568dad23a94d95-10044375-0
  • 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://synerhu.ru/uplcv?utm_term=goat+simulator+mmo+simulator+mod+apk PDF link annotation
    • http://www.mvdisposal.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1613672f9c6824---tofiripiwovavebot.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.web-globus.de/ckfinder/userfiles/files/9751026164.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://fieldofgreen.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/949f818080f0887eef9e3b120d148cdc/reliremimuvigakakolixu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://butzbacher.turnpoint.jo/app/webroot/upload/files/58549223534.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ulrike-mayer.de/userfiles/files/mixuvawezej.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://naturenhuman.com/app/webroot/userfiles/file/71328821636.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://aeronautike.com/userfiles/file/bumeraxodu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://menifee.hanasushichoice.com/uploads/files/gowujenu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://marinaxaraes.com.br/ckfinder/userfiles/files/53272271405.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.koreayokogawa.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/66997851353.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://conflictfreeelectronics.com/ourprojects/chowki/UserFiles/renuka/file/11571542824.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.alfainstal.pl/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1613cae830c842---pudadowatise.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://potentialdesign.cn/userfiles/file/1630853421.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://yam-token.com/business_school/uploads/file/78109217091.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://simpelms.nl/userfiles/files/sasipegigipuzodugolowitu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://benthanhsgfarm.com/images/uploads/files/walozusunabadigu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://machnhaduong.com/images/uploads/files/wabajikorizasunujuzobije.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://krallarintavugu.com/upload/file/84708177486.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.vnos.vn/app/webroot/uploads/files/66479874740.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://studiotravenzolo.it/userfiles/files/67917259429.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://gruaszarate.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/31435541681.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_off0000c521.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xC521 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_01_sfnt_off0000dd33.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xDD33 20660 bytes
SHA-256: 5c214e416a99bd2db9f61512cc76395bb8a1af843503739f92c13c6990da3444
font_02_sfnt_off000111f5.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x111F5 10548 bytes
SHA-256: ef4940e9f0a63d7d3a6d16fec6627eacc4de736ea42208b4af89593bb160baa5