Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 543085e98f697de7…

MALICIOUS

PDF

75.0 KB Created: 2021-06-06 20:48:19 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7) First seen: 2021-10-14
MD5: 7b10c9194c139745903807ef03e58650 SHA-1: 00f290f38e74e9f4b07b15eb3648bbf0a81d994e SHA-256: 543085e98f697de785cc9f655f923f01840612aeb18fecb3a1cb162150c84b9d
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment T1059.007 JavaScript

This PDF document was flagged by multiple heuristics as malicious, including a machine learning classifier and ClamAV detection. It contains numerous links to external websites, many hosted on compromised CMS platforms or disposable domains, indicating a link farm designed to redirect users to potentially malicious content. The presence of embedded URLs and the nature of the heuristics suggest this document is part of a phishing or malware distribution campaign.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9998

Heuristics 6

  • ClamAV: Pdf.Phishing.Trojan-d2528dad23a95d95-d2528dad23a95d95-10044376-0 critical CLAMAV_DETECTION
    ClamAV detected this file as malware: Pdf.Phishing.Trojan-d2528dad23a95d95-d2528dad23a95d95-10044376-0
  • 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=grulla+origami+significado+familia PDF link annotation
    • http://nacyc.jp/Upload/file/85215841273.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.ibyservice.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/011ad1e20f80079b03ce68cc41bce081/rimavukarupafiduvudojik.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://aravlicraft.com/cmsCart//upload/file/jesemuliwipuzatu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://am-assets.com/aom/magnolia/userfiles/file/mojave.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://erkerlaender.de/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607af9c91c3db---55240405786.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://californiaoptionsrealestate.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/fdc555a3468eb999e522b47fdf8fc2eb/jasoxopobufariga.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://gulertrafik.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/4ho4fp49mags33vndcd9ndjfg6/25745136536.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.jscorporation.co.in/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160953a1db5f5f---gofabima.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.webtony.com.br/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160b04fec6cbd6---nisatixivokafubomovoxu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://pmdrecycling.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607dcfc09430f---metizawat.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ipvoicenj.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1606d0fa407c8c---10038372349.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.temsilcifirsatlari.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607708f9bccbf---94057603748.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://miamiwars.pl/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/2bcdc01884076adbdef5636895df1785/87084317681.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://srihemkuntsahibfgp.org/hemkunt/userfiles/file/jemetataparifu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://baharemadinah.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160821c1cb28bb---76003434089.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://dallaslandscapedesign.com/media/files/11570079741.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://amirafouad.com/uploaded_files/file/zutitegafunifemi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/In PDF document text
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/typedesigners.htmlIn 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://scripts.sil.org/OFLIn PDF document text

Extracted artifacts 3

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
font_00_sfnt_off0000d84a.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xD84A 3756 bytes
SHA-256: 2aebd461a36a499f212c32ea4b3e4bd3a71fa2f851a5dcd7643f51284901ecda
font_01_sfnt_off0000e59d.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xE59D 5372 bytes
SHA-256: e36a7f2b708fc47c9df4c186b90a5bf5c90a39c42d592a7a93129501f2271ba0
font_02_sfnt_off0000f7cd.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF7CD 11500 bytes
SHA-256: 8b42664cd19949bdcbd212fc97b89a5efff68ae1d960fd2f87c156eafceb0251