Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 decc21c00e893e27…

MALICIOUS

PDF

78.5 KB Created: 2021-09-04 15:45:37 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-05
MD5: 064facb8a3e9df405d2c7e9f37f521da SHA-1: e88c5355abb244532fe0774cf56867324a21c6ee SHA-256: decc21c00e893e270d9e0b11c08482b75739202829c54046e5b742514becd7b6
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF contains a link farm pointing to multiple compromised CMS upload directories, indicating a phishing or malware distribution attempt. ClamAV detection as 'Pdf.Phishing.Trojan' further supports this assessment. The ML classifier also strongly flagged this PDF as malicious.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9958

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://blackknowledge.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/5cbdadb4986ec56a6fe98a5bb1cbc824/foxun.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://peoplefineart.com/assets/202108/files/20210803185546993410.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://hongshengfish.com/uploadfiles/20210626/210626042614979461a1thooromucv.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://menu2uplus.com/images/file/29193493545.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://reiki-roots.co.uk/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160b45c1e73e56---logulafojutifa.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://greenreunion.org/clients/f/fd/fd69eab1634eeea6368acebbe5d5cb0d/File/bokikijuxamum.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://alfa-pechati.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/2c906806a0afae019994a6adb915d39a/sawelagerogurezab.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://inmaabiladi.com/userfiles/files/44194105702.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://capitaldanceacademy.com/userfiles/files/39070356577.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://tuzvedo.hu/elemek/file/tumeduzopelatuf.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://xn--90aoj0agf7cq.xn--p1ai/uploads/files/raxaxerisemosesujexigis.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://baoholaodong24.com/userfiles/file/rirogas.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://sakirnoopo.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/d7506032655b73fee1a09cfd3193ccb3/5335412030.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://fundreamz.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/zosodete.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://rittenhousesmiles.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/ede4dc76c903ee64f6a82091fd9077c3/18958859353.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://napraforgohotel.hu/upload/file/25300584803.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://studiogreenwich.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/5c90886cf998a5931d66a74f857a7bae/pifebusomege.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://nowyhotelik.pl/userfiles/file/20191650717.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://szymonadamczyk.pl/uploads/fck/file/49573351275.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://kaufdeinauto.de/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1606f28634d7be---41023685502.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://holmeslawfirm-iowa.com/customer/3/d/9/3d947ad6ce2568d98b832ccf5548371bFile/31210985745.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.advids.co/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608ea1ff3be9d---guxifarerobawapajeda.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ingegnasrl.com/userfiles/files/lobuzagovuluderen.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/skout/mBVl/~3/fzgW7-mxBc0/uplcv?utm_term=canon+imagerunner+2200+manualPDF 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_off0000cf93.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xCF93 10556 bytes
SHA-256: 38b6ec5f5f7f65beb3d326d7e1506089bb9b3a1ec2132c90f94b2127f8842777
font_01_sfnt_off0000e7a0.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xE7A0 17388 bytes
SHA-256: f3dd1cc0a621840a3d31c2e0c0ac047416fa5ba9138a44a1bf773cafe8377bdc
font_02_sfnt_off0001146b.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x1146B 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1