Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 2af6dbdaf93ba183…

MALICIOUS

PDF

80.6 KB Created: 2021-09-04 18:09:37 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-05
MD5: 0c6de6f6e035c7f673d13b69aa4c61de SHA-1: e521aa0972cc67bd8418d9626f14bbddd3a29b62 SHA-256: 2af6dbdaf93ba18362d428e3abf022b6e8f6109e78588cbcba382c65c67bcece
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF contains numerous links pointing to potentially compromised WordPress sites, indicating a link farm designed to redirect users. The ML classifier and ClamAV detection strongly suggest malicious intent, likely for phishing or malware distribution. The presence of multiple 'formcraft' plugin paths in the URLs further supports the idea of a coordinated malicious infrastructure.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9955

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 http://inspirationallabels.co.uk/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1606cd76480944---98843813280.pdf In PDF document text
    • https://pachetedeturism.ro/images/files/92006024539.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://mkontakt.pl/dat/file/83733259661.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://lacecinella.com/writable/public/userfiles/file/datupolekawesad.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://okud-istra.hr/userfiles/file/telamavevifurakasuror.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://elateridae.com/images/FCKeditor/file/58079878504.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://qiangka.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/xotogagime.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.getfitcrew.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a08343c8c20---pelokawidipax.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://claudiodauelsberg.com.br/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607cec1ee8fe4---27127357437.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://medtek.vn/storage/file/sefabopetomekukifikeb.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.lowdoc-loans.com.au/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160c0d7e729b42---18570715728.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://montgomery71.com/clients/34132/File/32262470729.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://stellabakingcompany.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16126029cab924---85051136596.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cesiedizioni.com/userfiles/file/71322322443.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://soportedevida.mx/ckfinder/userfiles/files/43148656988.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://binarbaidrealestate.com/public_html/userfiles/file/vujetiremerebeg.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://willowslakerhea.org/userimages/19687180614.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://scissortailfarms.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16081bc0a3c090---67562682931.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://dispensapertutti.com/userfiles/files/sazezisajekunotipix.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://svingenieria.cl/userfiles/file/tagavazowumumalijed.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://dodici12.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/5mn4jmftf00gv715pbq1fu9cu1/lixinigaxevuroxaxitigi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://imssp.by/data/images/fxeditor/file/17761626051.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://pluckywize.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16094354eddde2---71762436463.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://lawcab.ru/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160d7724b5a8c8---nopijizidotig.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/1eyvgo/aqOO/~3/A3Ryygt5BCM/uplcv?utm_term=commands+of+jesus+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_off0000d59b.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xD59B 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_01_sfnt_off0000edb2.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xEDB2 10584 bytes
SHA-256: 763d77f0d69fdca363cae38a5437c5936aaca43ea5f10558b1a9be3291bb2a6b
font_02_sfnt_off000105de.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x105DE 18424 bytes
SHA-256: 6ea95aaa5ea03c3c4aea75608d6571603114184b0f95d2bde07f6a93b007c39f

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