Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 decc41ed70027535…

MALICIOUS

PDF

76.4 KB Created: 2021-09-07 00:18:37 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-11
MD5: 49d736728b7a4fe3707667dff891195e SHA-1: e9a3571f362126bbaf7c101174d2f6eee4c04d8e SHA-256: decc41ed70027535f411b47ea3359f497dbb187ab1f82a99c78dad6f69da893e
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

The PDF file was flagged by multiple heuristics as malicious, including a ML classifier and ClamAV, indicating it is likely a phishing or malware distribution lure. The document contains numerous embedded URLs pointing to various domains, many of which are associated with link farms or compromised CMS uploads, suggesting an attempt to redirect users to malicious content. No scripts were extracted, but the presence of numerous external links and the 'link farm' heuristics strongly suggest a phishing or malware delivery intent.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9943

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://chcial.ru/uplcv?utm_term=unhealthy+habits+worksheet PDF link annotation
    • http://www.contal-farmer.com/uploads/files/xolazepevepabalivetudekal.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://argumentua.com/i/file/pemegikidonenojemovagutep.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://eva.am/files/005984ac544f85cc.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.wikiwebagency.it/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/bfacd07064c22504f5ff9e0da4d547a3/gagap.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://perfecthospital.org/FCKeditor/file/5654967648.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://championshipsportsrings.com/clients/23492/File/89336593058.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.projectorrentals.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160f1d4c129865---85973002956.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://voxel-avocats.fr/uploads/file/42359219916.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://elcwma.com/customer/3/d/9/3d947ad6ce2568d98b832ccf5548371bFile/bagozozobafaxobilik.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://yourownadviser.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/jekopixunogomulajona.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://alusol-kw.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/kipanamikexole.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://moto-trend.cz/public/files/fck/file/38636945965.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://lifetides.ca/cambridge/uploads/files/97369929792.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://obrienbuilders.com/userfiles/file/48507650405.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://tokyoto.pl/UserFiles/file/9670841031.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://dbhattacharjee.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/16029993924.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://evocative.ru/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160b60d24cff03---vodarefijepomopalus.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://mps-india.com/userfiles/files/77565238394.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://dabien.co.kr/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16094b9c6cb513---munakaforovotude.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://mokhalasati.com/userfiles/files/98722900320.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.alfapilates.pl/upload/file/pejetezizutoresom.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://wakingbeauty.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1606cc386cdb19---bupajowufajape.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://aeskulap24h.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160b409af32ac9---72916164186.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://kim-clark.ru/files/file/17116754411.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://tonerihned.cz/userfiles/file/sajez.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_off0000c89e.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xC89E 10644 bytes
SHA-256: 00345bbbfb838f4d771d934fb8d224d8343cf00d28a9dc29ef4faf2e439a9230
font_01_sfnt_off0000e100.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xE100 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_02_sfnt_off0000f912.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF912 16564 bytes
SHA-256: 2f4d8a1387b8fdf2b6b00c167332f34ec1db2832e9eb52740313d37ea6cfbcc8

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