Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 543c510f86fb909b…

MALICIOUS

PDF

85.7 KB Created: 2021-09-06 05:27:36 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-26
MD5: 43b48e0be9af60836d7acefe5c5e70a8 SHA-1: 4c85deb7511cf76b24308b30755d8ebe493d4c43 SHA-256: 543c510f86fb909b79cb88a5f7a2d1a82e18ef536d04a28346bfe91833a31ed8
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF contains numerous links, many pointing to compromised WordPress upload directories, indicating a link farm or phishing lure. The ML classifier and ClamAV detection strongly suggest malicious intent, likely related to phishing or SEO spam. No scripts were extracted, and the document body was unreadable, so the attack pattern is inferred from the URL structure and heuristic firings.

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 https://bokseinstituttet.dk/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a0d973cf73e---99539829726.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://www.thediethub.in/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160767fe2d887e---43133632150.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ccveg.org/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/u1l4s841lpeucg1av6r43ni5as/motigepawuzurula.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://brothersaluminium.com.np/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160817b260c0ff---dejorezorowalowaxepurupil.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.northeastmarquees.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/f2e78ca52833d59f3f7c260ae435d5e4/19884737071.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://globalsocialwlefaresummit.com//app/webroot/uploads/ckuploads/files/6945075238.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://videoacceso.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609e16e9ae799---67749704323.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://tuabogadoangel.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/dec428d25ef4178cd710aa672454534f/digabidujofazuloduje.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.festivalmarrakech.info/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608ee1a2dc107---85989620488.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://3e-machinery.ru/app/webroot/filesfiles/setufegovatarod.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://placc.info/up_image/65841245575.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://informerfitness.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/4a1e6129495c3c058c92330e4895fda8/76189669410.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://immobilieninvestors.eu/userfiles/file/50238512899.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://lightupalife.org.uk/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16123833641636---56296250843.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.nationaalgolfcongres.nl/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160cc959540980---wozusutorosuzem.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://xn--90ad5ackt1d.xn--p1ai/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/7ec7ff23bfc7093ce9e17a59aaef1923/24718487454.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://vigova.com/Images_upload/files/bixovozidigalewenizejak.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.avenueroadadvertising.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16087eafb156dc---ganixakotuxajotowozude.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://thevelascofamily.com/clients/11614/File/lugijedisebasidorewasub.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://aceonlinementors.com/userfiles/file/75447359668.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://dragonspond.com/uploads/files/44170993373.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://easyliveconstruction.com/ci/userfiles/files/pexofotesaworawiwitevajos.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://at1-turbo-j3t.com/contents/files/kudigonivarorubem.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://relaxationplusmn.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/2113bc5bcd1b1e90e5d430f90fc633b2/4749288951.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.gs-gleichmann.de/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160822f1800330---1295500441.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/skout/mBVl/~3/cv9VXjIrmdE/uplcv?utm_term=cube+and+cube+roots+worksheet+pdfPDF 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_off0000e501.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xE501 18712 bytes
SHA-256: d02722f871c44944623e42764f191991277927ab333a7b43d3b61f68a33e05cf
font_01_sfnt_off000115f1.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x115F1 11028 bytes
SHA-256: dd7d5fc5b6f4e5d48675803bbc6a315d8516ca2d1c9dbb77cf0e0acbe7965d53
font_02_sfnt_off00012f74.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x12F74 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1