Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 0c2d6b13f30ca362…

MALICIOUS

PDF

88.2 KB Created: 2021-07-05 06:22:44 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-09-13
MD5: a6c315d5e258f553ad9abd267b656583 SHA-1: 7e9484e6987cd5c1d9213fac10f98086ee00a5e2 SHA-256: 0c2d6b13f30ca3626c9ae3e4c605ea6745061a3869236091fc8774f131a169e9
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF contains numerous links pointing to compromised WordPress sites, specifically within formcraft plugin upload directories. These links are designed to act as a link farm, potentially leading users to malicious content or further exploits. The ML classifier and ClamAV detection strongly indicate malicious intent, likely phishing or malware distribution.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9947

Heuristics 6

  • ClamAV: Pdf.Phishing.Trojan-d2568dad23a94d95-d2568dad23a94d95-10044375-0 critical CLAMAV_DETECTION
    ClamAV detected this file as malware: Pdf.Phishing.Trojan-d2568dad23a94d95-d2568dad23a94d95-10044375-0
  • 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://comodee.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160d912b84f6c6---tegija.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://jamoncup.es/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a560e673357---62203290411.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.lipfish.no/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609db6442e256---tosifa.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://creativeindustries.ru/uploads/userfiles/file/36404811546.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://viajespereira.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607fb77a3e783---65920599926.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://eske.hu/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160700a3be9fdb---xorobisekukela.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://all-pass.com/folder/editor/file/punovadijikixuluf.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://novahealthclinic.ca/userfiles/file/36714798018.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.idahomedia.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/6fb636c290e793d65af78b7db873b90a/5828330024.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://alkanboya.com/files/file///jotebedawokubezavugepox.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://wcdt.co.th/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/i3620ql9k19qauiuqn3ik7o7cp/zinevolusa.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://reszke.pl/fckeditor/editor/filemanager/connectors/php/file/2118384433.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://evocative.ru/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1606c786e48df5---tuxigej.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.sunarmisir.com.tr/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/prekltn8b6j0upjjf9eido1rc7/66443460583.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://drmarlenebothma.co.za/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160822e66ae006---kidivowa.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://plasy.com/uploads/file/zevugesexifiviw.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.qbuildsoftware.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/40e00f53f4b11a501af770cf3c1ae450/96710024447.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://mgmkt.com.br/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607449c29951a---xotarisorobunuloz.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://thietbivesinhanhhuy.com/asset/files/suvuket.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://autosaloncenter.com/uploads/file/kogojoxixeluvate.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://adiwirawanbali.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/0b2a8c17bfc386991f334b26ef84b5c1/41457318900.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://refta-bg.com/userfiles/file/rewasi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://alatheir.com/atheirwsfiles/file/1648346186.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://kennyre.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160c62b8d8033a---11024546220.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Uplcv/~3/6naE_Nh8_CY/uplcv?utm_term=business+situation+analysis+examplesPDF 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_off0000f84c.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF84C 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_01_sfnt_off00011063.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x11063 10684 bytes
SHA-256: 6d9e83769f2576b4dac1c8363bbefe62b560a2ceb4a8e6d9c01db0372b2105c3
font_02_sfnt_off000128f5.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x128F5 16356 bytes
SHA-256: 8316ae974c3d29faeaece5db56507acdf501f676d73586a8b4d8aea43cc36456