Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 543a227a3ec6544b…

MALICIOUS

PDF

86.5 KB Created: 2021-09-07 06:10:30 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-27
MD5: acf92c05ac2aa68565b334230d3f24c5 SHA-1: ced6ded85a05ddcf0462e004a67e8b7de681bcd8 SHA-256: 543a227a3ec6544b4bb9fd4d19ab2193d0c7e8eac6b0865acb6f2718519e9920
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment T1203 Exploitation for Client Execution

This PDF was flagged by multiple heuristics as malicious, including a critical ClamAV detection and an ML classifier. It contains a link farm pointing to numerous websites, many of which appear to be compromised WordPress uploads or disposable hosting, suggesting an attempt to distribute malicious content or phish users. The presence of external URIs and the nature of the links indicate a likely spearphishing attachment delivery vector.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9974

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 http://iphysiology.ru/upload/wobibexozakawaja.pdf In PDF document text
    • https://g3az.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160f03c50321e0---pevopijisi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://fastcomputer.vn/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/38677d0d0e8e9851377abfdc9f0a588e/juvugoxozerapo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://run2endalz.org/clients/2/2b/2b4973775a35d8819257a28a16fdea67/File/takofogumurosa.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://fjsxsx558.com/upload/files/wemikepabamirowebizoteki.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ejmk.com/ej/upload/files/17921211190.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://burgaseguros.com/userfiles/file/jenujezosajoso.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.entornopublicitario.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/62dc0dd46779055b6e5199006d2dc634/lumitujixotesejumasopun.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://divinenine.net/userfiles/file/vobaseziwuzelapibo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://mav-auto.ru/images/file/39513719298.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://thealloywheelcentre.co.uk/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/d19f8ce38bac2ab174c2eb18f67fc587/fawoles.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.rydalmereprestige.com.au/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/9rioift5hkbtaioea21638b8h8/zujisezubopokuwupof.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://akdenizokullari.k12.tr/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/dd9ckqdn7iid6c4ig0t7h7d7b2/66462689367.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ppuhperspektywa.pl/files/edytor/file/rolizijivigukovonefugafaj.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://jr-bang.com/uploadfiles/20210726180233.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://postelezmasivu-ostrava.cz/ckfinder/userfiles/files/fedax.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://konditsionery-reutov.ru/upload_picture/file/gegagerekibu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://vendsol.com/userfiles/file/84750578801.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://hzzxtl.com/UploadFile/file/20210714025956239.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.cascinasorigherio.it/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16121c0f8576ed---15269162231.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.accidentinjuryalbuquerque.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/da0to7oc0etm5896bcgrocnvjj/fonevuzuzuxifokekedaxafi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ludifrance.fr/userfiles/file/86826572540.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://expeditions-travel.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608bb3d8dccbf---regidebuxowulokiwuvo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://open.ua/uploads/ckeditor/files/64064708934.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.fotografoeventimilano.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609291ba58666---rodelojadokin.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Uplcv/~3/ngfLrbzwjls/uplcv?utm_term=electoral+process+worksheet+answersPDF 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_off0000ee9c.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xEE9C 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_01_sfnt_off000106b3.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x106B3 10540 bytes
SHA-256: b07d8143459eb66a4b1e8ca37c74ef2858430c06eea2f8d659e95cec7fdd5514
font_02_sfnt_off00011ec3.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x11EC3 17600 bytes
SHA-256: b25a4236be2fa4cb916cce8be7fb218a7564411899bc46714ba2db107c9c652a