Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 52f61fbb3468a106…

MALICIOUS

PDF

91.4 KB Created: 2021-10-19 21:02:56 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-11-22
MD5: 955ed450767e1e904082b01b44412a27 SHA-1: 852f2e57c961812c2ee76f77a068459c08b732b0 SHA-256: 52f61fbb3468a106d3e067528d3b4ad1b6d848dba4ac9045fcba5101983c6022
134 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

The PDF contains numerous external links, many of which point to other PDF files hosted on disposable domains, indicating a link farm designed to obscure malicious activity. The ML classifier and ClamAV detection strongly suggest malicious intent, likely phishing or malware distribution. Although no scripts were explicitly extracted, the PDF structure and URL patterns are consistent with a phishing lure that aims to trick users into downloading further malicious content.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9968

Heuristics 6

  • ClamAV: Pdf.Phishing.Trojan-d2568dad23a94d95-d2568dad23a94d95-10044375-0 critical CLAMAV_DETECTION
    ClamAV detected this file as malware: Pdf.Phishing.Trojan-d2568dad23a94d95-d2568dad23a94d95-10044375-0
  • 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.
  • Visual download / call-to-action button lure low SE_DOWNLOAD_BUTTON
    Document contains a call-to-action phrase ('Click here to download', 'Download Now', etc.) — low-signal unless other findings point to a malicious workflow
  • 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://crysiq.ru/uplcv?utm_term=how+to+update+mxq+4k+firmware PDF link annotation
    • https://scmsgroup.org/ckfinder/userfiles/files/57088396183.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://wasserburg.pl/userfiles/file/62487478323.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://carszana.com/image/upload/File/kevoriwol.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://pscemetery.com/userfiles/file/50591374214.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://metabolit-plus.ru/files/file/setujabikegasen.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.kickcommerce.com/userfiles/file/59497241659.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://gekon.net/userfiles/file/35653584759.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.premiumimport.nl/ckfinder/userfiles/files/jumobevubipobur.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://westernmaki.com/uploads/files/lipakinodod.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://mehmetrasimmutlu.com/icerik/file/vifukejozuvazidonerutoz.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://rqconsultores.com/userfiles/file/venazig.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://aprt1day.ru/file/33730116846.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://cncostruzioni.com/userfiles/file/daxebonudarema.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://parkettworld.com/upload/files/xugezepasobiruv.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://tourgardan.com/basefile/tourgardancom/files/wubazemirominefefubelofu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://inventory-acepipe.com/images/uploads/files/18627290477.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://alasclub.gr/neuro/ckfinder/userfiles/files/fevitafiluzexomuxunanika.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://nikunjfoundation.org/ckfinder/userfiles/files/zaxidizepopo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://sogelec-eng.com/files/ckfinder/files/65405505628.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://stakeoutllc.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/6ce0cb4c123b6b36deb0ebe828bca662/wixawigureguxog.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://kawana.tech/userfiles/file/21981747932.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://nikoljski.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/gubivebar.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://sake-tori.com/images/library/File/89796587122.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://saptabangunmanunggal.com/indomobils/upload/file/22395562513.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_off0000fc59.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xFC59 10936 bytes
SHA-256: ccb51bdc0b73399d0262970d7b3d045713dfd4f2ba37a33a28f8e565fdd74778
font_01_sfnt_off0001158a.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x1158A 19656 bytes
SHA-256: d8c9bfdd5707aee7bae98579ba933221cd0bdf812cf3ec49443fcfbc13a66ee3
font_02_sfnt_off000147ac.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x147AC 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1