Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 3ad82d2ad64199be…

MALICIOUS

PDF

81.9 KB Created: 2021-07-06 09:25:22 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-09-14
MD5: 762c2eb1ac8ccd453a80c8c6616645eb SHA-1: 3395692eebe5280f4d0d0c0dc73e517d582bc863 SHA-256: 3ad82d2ad64199bee44704c4fdbad3c458d91c9b7ab8e112bdeb34879bf9ac8b
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

This PDF file was flagged by multiple heuristics and an ML classifier as malicious, with ClamAV identifying it as a phishing trojan. The file contains numerous embedded URLs, many pointing to compromised WordPress sites, suggesting it functions as a link farm to redirect users to malicious content. The presence of these links indicates an attempt to lure users to external sites, likely for phishing or further malware delivery.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9951

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://queure.ru/uplcv?utm_term=newton%27s+law+of+gravitation+in+vector+form PDF link annotation
    • http://www.neslihanonur.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/b39e4d54707433f1a8d8d374580cad20/89330429997.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://shayangroup.net/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/50b06834279f5df645364a368f436360/2354810719.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ehblending.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/8aecd12d0daf336986c2c1a5429ea388/22425932389.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://trenermichal.pl/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160ced8c912e08---96922610511.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://holocaustresearch.pl/nowy/photo/file/kumunojudalejimutazatu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://hotararicedo.ro/files/files/7936348506.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://amiablediamonds.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/ac1d8b6356cdde6c16817e46c0549dd9/doxodikusaxumatawudef.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://dutchfansitenetwork.nl/ckfinder/userfiles/files/19200751194.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://xn--80aaa1anac6cg.xn--p1ai/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/d930d5380fcd37fc07dc5230db124585/fezumavexataboruxoloz.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ufnk.fr/app/webroot/files/file/48184062803.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://aprendanow.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/af7c0d035d6803fa720260beabffa7f6/52849760457.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://maility.pl_adresuserfiles/file/77715706367.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.mercato.co.za/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1606c9f9cae3e5---12480991429.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://aaykpn.com/uploads/editor/files/59643302717.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://dogathermalhotel.com/resimler/files/ziwukivitunilajogu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://transcendenceit.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/3114b10aee29cc3ec956b8935385f991/muzizowazeniriduka.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://apricomm.com/userData/board/file/zawesosofajik.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://vmwarts.com/ecovic/file/jowegalupavikiler.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://parkwestresidences.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160719dc119a37---87536181693.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ambvetfanini.eu/userfiles/files/80067526796.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://songhong.info/userfiles/file/rafevaxavubejogon.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.arc-welding.co.uk/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/3mepa2d49dvleh5nouv9cv6t9q/bomor.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://asja-doll.ru/userfiles/file/foziteg.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://unitedcardsolutions.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a3a4fb29ca5---3346843844.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.jimenez-casquet.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607cf1713ead5---mazuralawavezezuwul.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_off0000dc09.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xDC09 10840 bytes
SHA-256: b875169fb48d2b86a5858e48ca5ead51a28cd5d6ca7c0c62cf5a44a62d5bb560
font_01_sfnt_off0000f53c.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF53C 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_02_sfnt_off00010d4e.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x10D4E 17004 bytes
SHA-256: 1defccdf296e77b3473fe6b162bad2e98f751b613d73be98abccf7a5ee6bd850