Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 84fca91cfa4ff927…

MALICIOUS

PDF

85.2 KB Created: 2021-06-30 00:46:05 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-08-25
MD5: aba79e72fb4a2765d7a658312a88d241 SHA-1: 5b1c2e12df7d55cafc510d8dfbefc6797a667839 SHA-256: 84fca91cfa4ff927a8f9bfd8ad1889d447db68da5fc0221d0d07ce49dcc66a97
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

This PDF file was flagged as malicious by a machine learning classifier and ClamAV. It contains numerous links pointing to compromised WordPress sites and other disposable hosting, suggesting it's part of a link farm designed to redirect users to malicious content. The presence of external URIs and link farms indicates an attempt to lead users to potentially harmful destinations.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9992

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://laborke.ru/uplcv?utm_term=the+happiness+hypothesis+pdf PDF link annotation
    • https://www.chartsunlimited.com.ph/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160847d6282272---kabaderiwek.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.birdandwildlifeteam.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160b2222c7167d---31736815521.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://prairieroseclothiers.com/FCKeditor/file/motuxovujibuzorigoge.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://akdenizokullari.k12.tr/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/t6o4j138hi4ba9lrnud930dl3e/wifelabadurezirake.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://kantankacreative.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/131fbe4426edd7df9a4f55c48ce3d398/44664173735.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.accidentinjuryalbuquerque.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/134feh82urt4gf8jqsbblkhck8/1859925692.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://erinmillssmilesdentistry.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/n4u9t208iuusucv7eus64b8293/4560104349.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://miamiwars.pl/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/3ca13b5c9ac5726b4f4fe048308e100d/59334971404.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://designcoordinators.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160769aa75e3ba---35537395038.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://hjtech.org/admin/upfile/file/nexine.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.norestim.ro/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160849771e2068---11666513941.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://elitestrategyglobal.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/b555940e9ae6f54a38950240547ea58d/68690345122.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://wacee.net/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160b40abe4a955---xorunonexujibekamokexegav.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.hydro-tg.pro/upload/file/wekomubidugepijufigebej.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://1sis.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160aea501eb385---salipaxilokexejewux.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://homeopathyhongkong.org/files/vixadewajaxuzegabopi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.mvdisposal.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607190746c889---6882537011.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://barcabianca.eu/upload/file/kowuboxedutepafovibopofo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://truck-diagnostic.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/55e8d984cd7a2bb7f5b63a345e1e2f58/48483462925.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://agiusfuneraldirectors.com/files/file/26538122259.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_off0000e9a5.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xE9A5 17828 bytes
SHA-256: e1cbc7b1ffe535aa15ceb5182797cefc01bf7ffcf0964b18c1fddd76e157aad7
font_01_sfnt_off00011833.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x11833 10524 bytes
SHA-256: 19b36dd1de680219099c6d21772c33bced2660a99b3c510a778fc776f5674747
font_02_sfnt_off0001302a.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x1302A 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1