Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 e538ad12cee3e36d…

MALICIOUS

PDF

67.7 KB Created: 2021-10-02 15:58:08 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-11-24
MD5: 7a7f0710316b35a0e6a76921e0db223b SHA-1: bf85b1cb5170c029f84b42516788f832e08c51da SHA-256: e538ad12cee3e36dfe25f0e8af63db002feec6a31cd311a50622db0a4a0707d3
176 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

This PDF document utilizes an image-only lure, a common tactic in phishing campaigns to obscure clickable links. The heuristics indicate it's part of a link farm hosted on compromised CMS uploads, suggesting an attempt to distribute malicious content or redirect users to phishing sites. The presence of multiple embedded URLs pointing to various domains, including 'synerhu.ru', reinforces the phishing and potential payload delivery intent.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9978

Heuristics 7

  • ClamAV: Pdf.Phishing.Trojan-d2568dad23a94d95-d2568dad23a94d95-10044375-0 critical CLAMAV_DETECTION
    ClamAV detected this file as malware: Pdf.Phishing.Trojan-d2568dad23a94d95-d2568dad23a94d95-10044375-0
  • Image-only document with action trigger (screenshot lure) medium PDF_IMAGE_LURE
    PDF has 1 image(s), only 0 text block(s), carries a click-outward action, and is only 67 KB — typical shape of a phishing lure where a full-page screenshot hides a clickable button that launches or submits to an attacker URL.
  • 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=hp+to+joule PDF link annotation
    • https://www.breastcancerfoundation.in/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/0cf8daedd00adf7128e56566f1cd2586/5422685820.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://bestforfishing.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/7648549a335bec32ae14567fb0178bb5/9100281109.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://randygordonlawoffice.com/customer/3/d/9/3d947ad6ce2568d98b832ccf5548371bFile/fosixemozanofajop.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://alkhairi.co.uk/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/d2cdfef4114d90ee80ba8998b3b14414/70822541112.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.thic.net/plugin/ce1/ckfinder/userfiles/files/73528490201.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.heksan.com.pl/file/7226477164.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://letnipohar.cz/upload/file/4916118308.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://globalsocialwlefaresummit.com/app/webroot/uploads/ckuploads/files/45884866065.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://huaienclinic.com/uploadpic/files/60970674602.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ostrichpharmaceuticals.com/userfiles/file/pavuginalo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://rmp-traueranzeigen.de/cms/files/28519012381.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://pianotuningdarwin.com/userfiles/files/gaxenemitejomopomusekab.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://doitsolutions.co/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/93a7a34b503c6277e77ed81ea8ad0045/sesevikisikikeno.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://x-mobio.com/upload/files/polujezurewumukufaka.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.almansori-ye.com/almansorifiles/files/vezugifusel.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://zkmeiqi.com/admin/ckfinder/upfile/files/warewibe.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://mtydizayn.com/userfiles/file/piwozodokodivev.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://pacientes.quiroser.com/UserFilesQUI/file/ridomolovafekemoje.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://gabinetpro.pl/kosmetyczka/krakow/files/xowatafosif.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://fainitelecommunication.com/public/editorfiles/file/63014476960.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://narzedziascierne.eu/Upload/file/divigoju.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://wuyioutdoor.com/userfiles/file/36417114664.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://originalcheck.it/public/img_admin/file///13294782840.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_off0000b0d4.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xB0D4 14172 bytes
SHA-256: f4028ec6a5fff00ca03f1984bb2db36a409c09095245ab5d122940312ab41187
font_01_sfnt_off0000d3c6.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xD3C6 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_02_sfnt_off0000ebdc.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xEBDC 9840 bytes
SHA-256: fba153f8c8f41ae07a2d74a23e421467877b108ff86be1b3248293bda43e3957