Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 2bacf588c4671f45…

MALICIOUS

PDF

100.6 KB Created: 2021-06-30 00:03:11 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-08-25
MD5: 63551eeaecf4eb805ae363c2d5303d9f SHA-1: ba6c91722c09201e5d691e8835445ca11bdbd44b SHA-256: 2bacf588c4671f452ad50ac994a0929c49d444d1c721095988adfadd968d0ac7
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF file contains numerous embedded URLs pointing to compromised WordPress sites, indicating it functions as a link farm. The ClamAV detection and ML classifier strongly suggest malicious intent, likely for phishing or distributing further malware. The presence of multiple external URIs and link farm heuristics confirms the primary attack vector.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9888

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://cructi.ru/uplcv?utm_term=what+is+the+exposition+of+the+story+sinigang PDF link annotation
    • http://www.1000ena.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a176578c7c3---wadumule.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://qualitycountscleaning.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/fd632c53f66964322aec6b6f985027b2/ragemaborumemoxipavafe.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.hospedeagora.com.br/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/sgh2htaobvqovd54b55v3rj8f2/gokikuwat.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.contal-farmer.com/uploads/files/zifaluwexatapo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://amctop.com/board_data/editor_img/file/202105200554.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.projectorrentals.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160ae4796ba081---ximodululujabawumal.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cowichanseniors.ca/userfiles/file/xuvibawet.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://gingerbreadvillage.org/clients/e/e3/e396b250b60561adcb946853f9f62e29/File/99089403575.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.accidentinjuryalbuquerque.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/barjvqe8l9q4duglvu8qn01r1t/60280425949.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://militarynetwork.ca/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16083f8b369c77---33822696071.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.wflorlando.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/43213205d12e34a082935977f680ce42/zofivagiwetogusezud.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://rrvchefs.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/faaf95130008b9fba75b5de94d4f8c92/72615500162.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://metzpaintings.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607691e22dc1f---42432294427.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://adbuffalony.com/uploads/files/metotedisetude.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://medok18.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/f256d771165a4211103d2d23dc5b9de9/kipidexef.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://imailbox.nl/images/uploadedimages/file/38866412329.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.novet.de/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160c0c20da5af3---tipapijozejuvidewoba.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.mybizwebsites.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160c9b0bc37ac1---fojejarugiso.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://sipsib.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/8323ca18952c55adfb1bf5d1437121a0/kikuzarimukaxitul.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.pianoszimmermann.com.br/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160acca35d0d49---6254107801.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ncfouting.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607ffc9a517a9---72643549953.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.advids.co/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160b0a17be5eb5---38810397629.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.thelawchamber.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607297426a276---zizizofoputepew.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 4

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
font_00_sfnt_off00010d7a.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x10D7A 18416 bytes
SHA-256: 6f3ab831700299fb65c86b02d1058f54d4dbbc9e0823c8a1be60742918daac3b
font_01_sfnt_off00013d35.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x13D35 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_02_sfnt_off00015546.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x15546 16336 bytes
SHA-256: a2ef34e2ceb547cabe987e40468e3f95c742f407daf15707e7db0dcead1b4f38
font_03_sfnt_off00016b88.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x16B88 10800 bytes
SHA-256: 6d5f66446f7f274edf40948b04c287e9b9df4ec4c580c172f0159157f6e43aca