Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 84fa3084e9f0e89b…

MALICIOUS

PDF

110.0 KB Created: 2021-08-21 19:12:34 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-12
MD5: 476dde02ac62a48b5229efc86b0bbc01 SHA-1: 5aa880c6822317638a8eca61a49f64c87f912842 SHA-256: 84fa3084e9f0e89bfcddbf513a924b60a70b9a88973c21adba7d710c0a011031
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

The PDF contains numerous external links, many pointing to compromised WordPress sites, indicating a link farm or phishing attempt. The ML classifier and ClamAV detection strongly suggest malicious intent. While no scripts were directly extracted, the PDF structure and link farm heuristics point towards an attempt to redirect users to malicious or phishing content.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9970

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://www.1000ena.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160b64c9f88778---8922239222.pdf In PDF document text
    • https://monarchwinemerchants.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/306c9589a13dc64a27686af739f244c4/lomasufegoxi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://rfcorporation.net/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/11b4f3e1e94127d74104acd9db62bd0f/xowurifefute.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://rutherford58.com/clients/5/5b/5b2824e44de76337c32dfcbc3ee6dba3/File/sozawemegixedawujuzo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://dalycity.com/wysiwygfiles/file/daniremokuguwapixipaga.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.northwoodmedical.ca/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/v5sdcsa663rujdt2k3osebf69b/43351344732.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://abrasco.org.br/ckfinder/userfiles/files/daromoledesanawivatasife.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://elpollopaulino.com/cenavarra_userfiles/files/nilipop.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://mini-garden.ru/userfiles/file/23865673179.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://gdgom.com/upload/file/2107071723527211071tg44juhnx6u.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://spearmanhsreunion.org/clients/e/e1/e1754705b4c076d7cd520c5e9e79ed07/File/galerotubojumifibakida.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.hdontheroadnapoli.it/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160aabb1f44b2b---93882344969.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://mamalight.net/business_school/uploads/file/jutoxenosinuwiwosa.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.1000ena.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609ecd387b23e---95762128070.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://progfin.pl/userfiles/file/nezavegewaniwujafopef.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://conservationenergy.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16085f9ae9a3a2---34571296958.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.sblending.com.au/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160c3450e4b18e---mawazedekadexajesal.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://msr-hudsonproperties.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/c55b4de0159ce13221356557dc9151d0/pudabef.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://soleilboo.com/images/uploads/files/87490632296.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://littlefreddieking.com/clients/65037/File/ranox.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://angelescare.com/userfiles/file/puwimejibada.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://d4sontario.com/clients/e/ed/ed023a0734c265ca673a92d1d81de675/File/25925691442.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://mrpokedb.com/uploads/files/soxemeduv.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://istanajp2.com/contents/files/52151635933.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://aryajob.com/user_upload/file/34120511267.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/1eyvgo/aqOO/~3/3vuEKuznOb8/uplcv?utm_term=why+were+the+pyramids+built+in+egyptPDF 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_off000145d5.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x145D5 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_01_sfnt_off00015dec.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x15DEC 11152 bytes
SHA-256: 0ff39b2a097339a238e1c877aaf2ff6cfd7f41649b4f49235e923c7e7df8f520
font_02_sfnt_off0001775f.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x1775F 18668 bytes
SHA-256: 1820133cfc9965c9c158a18b31e7f5590bbbe5a94fb53a8754c0b56008982a79