Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 3d82010a7227e26b…

MALICIOUS

PDF

78.9 KB Created: 2021-08-29 20:50:56 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-11-22
MD5: b92f4aa8ea4b5576a279a06062f529b5 SHA-1: f8c0a57180b4e1cbd1695c0d0a9acb4f93a4958a SHA-256: 3d82010a7227e26bd6a1be8891e2d6d0033abe33afa39c47673c879684224eb9
164 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

The PDF file was detected as malicious by ML classifiers and ClamAV, indicating a high likelihood of malicious intent. It contains numerous links pointing to compromised WordPress sites, specifically within the formcraft plugin's file upload directory, suggesting it is part of a link farm designed to distribute malicious content or phish users. The presence of external URIs and the nature of the compromised CMS upload links strongly suggest a spearphishing attachment vector.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9985

Heuristics 7

  • 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.
  • Urgency / deadline lure low SE_URGENCY_LURE
    Document contains urgency or deadline language ('account will be terminated', 'action required within 24 hours', etc.) — useful context, but low-signal without other findings
  • 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://www.kiteschule-kiel.de/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160e44786684f3---34363264712.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://all-pass.com/folder/editor/file/66185477490.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.quatainvestimentos.com.br/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607c0fa0edfe5---vokuzipog.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://shsclassof1959.com/clients/a/a7/a7a82b2a6025f7fafce5d77be70bf845/File/87166267721.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://holzhaus-suedtirol.it/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160be1eb61d6de---wufivigi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.iqubz.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160869da6d103e---fidesuxositibanut.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.lbf-cosmetics.com/website/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a756eb04493---5067492862.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://tsradviseurs.nl/mailing/images/photo/file/41677080770.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.hon-ro.hu/userfiles/files/77797616720.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://xn--90afqerdlt1f.xn--p1ai/admin/ckfinder/userfiles/files/zabifidivezasizijekarax.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://landpas.pl/upload/file/wasojideb.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://zawayakw.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16099e54132bdb---44387945823.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://siangyun.com/upfiles/editor/files/19073623587.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://oresteruggiero.com/userfiles/files/10565256897.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://member-amz-seller-system.de/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/7e799cca15c7c753a1813e1bef98e499/80532803404.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://proxima-design.cz/files/file/fozegi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://tuoitre.bacgiang.gov.vn/lib/ckfinder/files/27697334479.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://nceptionsolutions.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/1c0b156af0932319b1046f684ac268d6/bididawudatizerok.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://pima-alarms.rs/slicice/file/65215181462.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://akcjonariusz.com/UserFiles/file/6658438451.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://studioarchperissinotto.eu/userfiles/files/2320118652.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/1eyvgo/aqOO/~3/FevRqgeaUVY/uplcv?utm_term=corporate+governance+exam+questions+and+answersPDF 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_off0000ce96.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xCE96 17324 bytes
SHA-256: 30d1df56bf23ef6bc6f94a466547d2913c74761f25ebe006f436d6ffa05d442e
font_01_sfnt_off0000fb7e.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xFB7E 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_02_sfnt_off00011395.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x11395 11340 bytes
SHA-256: 51e84c86aa269c647a8ee6cb3b69a0a4db29c80492027facbe03de1f3d0bad78