Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 56ce55d5491ed7e3…

MALICIOUS

PDF

82.1 KB Created: 2021-04-06 09:17:01 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7) First seen: 2021-07-10
MD5: 5111e5f1acec6e53e223d0328915cbdd SHA-1: 61510f7b2fa900230f008149ed87600108891f68 SHA-256: 56ce55d5491ed7e389324c4c922cb8f6365e443791822532f0211e8bc16f774d
186 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF contains a large number of external links, many hosted on disposable domains, indicating a link farm or phishing attempt. The ML classifier and ClamAV detection strongly suggest malicious intent. While no scripts were explicitly extracted, the PDF structure and numerous external URIs point towards a phishing or malware distribution vector, likely initiated via spearphishing.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9994

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://midufefew.ru/wix?keyword=chapter+10+apush+review PDF link annotation
    • http://wewogokuwidu.mywebcommunity.org/alcoholism_journal_articles.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://pitajuzijos.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/4/8/134885257/2962833.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://nakilogizo.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/4/3/134363069/8776514.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://espacecmb.xyz/how_to_reset_belkin_n600_router_passwordbg307.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://subfamjtii.site/2128052188i6t63.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://baboguzaxeleju.mypressonline.com/ahsaa_volleyball_score_sheet.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://nitapida.mywebcommunity.org/bank_exam_books_free_download.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://vurujupafowutox.mypressonline.com/string_theory_david_foster_wallace_review.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ufenmac.com/7874457362617zys.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://pasetbs.xyz/hampton_bay_remote_control_app8ru2b.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://bisojobiregabo.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/4/5/134509607/6546329.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://13millions.store/kaantasan_ng_pang-_uri_worksheet_grade_4u4w38.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://sajefabavasa.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/2/7/132710755/0c5d7.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://top-salez.site/fepimedabz9c.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://turetajonu.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/4/6/134629909/xorevaluv.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/In PDF document text
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/typedesigners.htmlIn PDF document text
    • https://3cd6846c-369c-4875-9c63-132df726a2dd.filesusr.com/ugd/7ab50f_6d83d04fc4f94a3b80f6f48cc5f7fb1d.pdf?index=trueIn PDF document text
    • https://uploads.strikinglycdn.com/files/0b9e4f79-c965-4e5b-b1aa-c2f2616abfa9/63922163543.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://uploads.strikinglycdn.com/files/2a8a01de-45d8-426a-9163-79a7a4ae2268/why_is_turkey_in_nato_anyway.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cd29ef07-728f-4a0b-b57b-23e770395c36.filesusr.com/ugd/f14cf6_29c014268b98470188d37bd078dc3e6e.pdf?index=trueIn PDF document text
    • https://0c2a7d7b-be9d-4ef2-a94c-09ca905cc17d.filesusr.com/ugd/7d21c0_d37f115f2b31480ea735c889e52a4ea3.pdf?index=trueIn PDF document text
    • https://858e1da1-ad31-4e5b-aec0-89c59c6c71f6.filesusr.com/ugd/6240f8_126ac0567cad427c8b2940c19f95416e.pdf?index=trueIn PDF document text
    • http://tiluxusimutine.atwebpages.com/cambridge_young_learners_english_tests.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://uploads.strikinglycdn.com/files/7210a226-7be0-44b6-a986-b5309be1634a/pusez.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_off000103fd.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x103FD 5128 bytes
SHA-256: 56e50658981eef221d2da05b3571eedd64ac87467daab752abc4811e2fd813fc
font_01_sfnt_off00011576.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x11576 10600 bytes
SHA-256: 40bd7065eff7443b6edde8cb930e69de0f569ed8455a913851b59c9e7507b4cf