Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 552052c8d8f5ce36…

MALICIOUS

PDF

73.2 KB Created: 2021-03-24 21:52:07 +02:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7) First seen: 2021-07-07
MD5: 8c3d5ad863662aa95efb1b5b887d3d78 SHA-1: 456a4965c0bd58764dec8e09e7edf46532a81367 SHA-256: 552052c8d8f5ce363d1ebaa89c0865e4b9d62b02843f5111376cb5371a140c90
186 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment T1059.007 JavaScript

This PDF file was flagged by multiple heuristics as a link farm, containing numerous external URLs pointing to disposable hosting. The ML classifier and ClamAV also identified it as malicious, specifically as a phishing trojan. The embedded URLs suggest an attempt to redirect users to potentially malicious or SEO-manipulated content, aligning with phishing or spamming tactics.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9993

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 contains mass external PDF link farm critical PDF_SEO_LINK_FARM
    Small PDF contains many clickable external PDF links, mostly clustered on one host. This matches generated SEO/link-farm PDF carriers used to route users into malicious or unwanted-software delivery chains, rather than a normal document citation pattern.
  • 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://pelibifir.ru/wix?keyword=crown+point+theater+movie+times PDF link annotation
    • http://wugupomovupa.sportsontheweb.net/neoclassical_period_in_english_literature.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://pizidojokinesa.66ghz.com/customer_service_training_schedule_template.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://static.s123-cdn-static.com/uploads/4366382/normal_5ff186dc38a31.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://static.s123-cdn-static.com/uploads/4481052/normal_5fc77a6de4b27.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn-cms.f-static.net/uploads/4406481/normal_60558c3b5219d.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://esmoney.site/can_shamans_use_daggersymswq.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://static.s123-cdn-static.com/uploads/4503787/normal_6009086d5897e.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://virnet77.ru/ielts_listening_test_2_accommodation_form_answersacwxb.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://bobr.space/local_tour_guide_in_phuket24elb.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://bonus332.site/945542231472gnhj.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn-cms.f-static.net/uploads/4366969/normal_6042e74a9bc11.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/In PDF document text
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/typedesigners.htmlIn PDF document text
    • https://05790d5e-93e9-4545-bcc4-99c37f081c18.filesusr.com/ugd/bff4d5_c947dc04a5114928bacbc220bbded903.pdf?index=trueIn PDF document text
    • https://94aa8f26-b07a-4c24-bdb4-4112657565c9.filesusr.com/ugd/37428b_dce1055001df4b4aa39efd89485680c2.pdf?index=trueIn PDF document text
    • http://gosaduzunake.myartsonline.com/wii_console_newegg.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://b54663a3-ff9d-4122-b75c-69b71428c9b0.filesusr.com/ugd/cfa91a_52816ecda4b8456992e89b07b5a42433.pdf?index=trueIn PDF document text
    • https://9b08d158-0e0f-4203-9b31-e1272d977b1c.filesusr.com/ugd/086daf_927e81ff1c214480b5558ea1eba50144.pdf?index=trueIn PDF document text
    • https://f87ce62f-3d5d-4c42-bff3-2e7d00444551.filesusr.com/ugd/72ed28_5aec6d5241be4a1fbb13709bb210034a.pdf?index=trueIn PDF document text
    • http://tuninedup.epizy.com/danielle_steel_books_coming_out_in_2021.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://4cf6c2b4-cd84-4b73-83b1-bf7f441162b2.filesusr.com/ugd/e50c99_ddf7c360698b44b6bf25739b1975182b.pdf?index=trueIn PDF document text
    • https://945b3f91-9c76-4178-be32-f0dab3cfe2c6.filesusr.com/ugd/8d5d69_770e1dba0b3344e98e8e63105478b1fd.pdf?index=trueIn PDF document text
    • http://nasakitubaribud.rf.gd/questions_to_ask_in_solution_focused_therapy.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://3682d434-6e27-4ac8-9ac2-d3ec24fa429c.filesusr.com/ugd/9b5f63_0c0be98b4b5a44a0904a06daae1da3f0.pdf?index=trueIn PDF document text
    • http://fonumorawupako.epizy.com/61642779676.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://scripts.sil.org/OFLIn PDF document text

Extracted artifacts 2

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
font_00_sfnt_off0000e1f7.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xE1F7 5084 bytes
SHA-256: 2d79ec60cf9c7207901c929e2c7a3168d38e251fec60ce98f404f21af9d6cbcd
font_01_sfnt_off0000f325.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF325 10640 bytes
SHA-256: 851b21cf1512159e93b871dcc63d4c12b56cc3c87746acbc738ffd0553d39fa0