Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 56df214b693065fc…

MALICIOUS

PDF

74.2 KB Created: 2021-09-14 12:14:54 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-16
MD5: d382b3bae16b590cf4caa63bee8a3585 SHA-1: b954601a2d01e1f4e82db02cb22c9bb086fe038d SHA-256: 56df214b693065fc5a8fc41e005f2aa74da2bc6db09e4f8f3aa21872bbf6716c
126 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

This PDF file was flagged by multiple heuristics, including a machine learning classifier and ClamAV, indicating malicious intent. The presence of numerous embedded URLs, many pointing to disposable hosting and employing UTM parameters, strongly suggests a phishing or link-farming operation designed to redirect users to malicious sites. While no scripts were explicitly extracted, the PDF structure itself is being leveraged to host and present these malicious links.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9953

Heuristics 5

  • 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.
  • 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://krisoc.ru/uplcv?utm_term=group+call+in+telegram PDF link annotation
    • http://1night2daytour.com/ckupload/files/gamapofiketukolal.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://3e-machinery.ru/app/webroot/filesfiles/12261368202.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://0975811252cool.linker.tw/files/tevejugowozidoregojiraz.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://btcauction.vn/hinhanh/file/25241502491.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://nocleginaplus.pl/uploads/userfiles/files/xifikasisejijex.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.patricktennis.nl/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/161342cd96bdcc---sutumim.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://htlexpress.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/61215259588.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://monarchwinemerchants.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/02815b1199793260d60ca69adca5cd80/lejisusepikur.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://idcla.net/upload/files/84977046447.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://conniecorsentino.com/customer/3/d/9/3d947ad6ce2568d98b832ccf5548371bFile/37692982911.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://areaengineeringsrl.eu/userfiles/files/sitadewatoxinixogibipafa.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://beauty214.com/uploads/files/202109061009534696.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://timnhanhonline.vn/upload/files/gubidusisoraxutarofawepux.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://safetyhanoi.com/userfiles/file/fajafememu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://borik.customreal.sk/data/files/duvakiwavirilat.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://gordostcrista.ru/userfiles/file/4738012281.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://bodybybodyology.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/89217930972.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://asremajazi.com/uploads/files/rofovovowobapujonanuna.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://homeuu.biz/upload/ckeditor/pages/files/50047163741.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://prvugkh.ru/uploads/files/6625776302.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://op-gold.com/ck_image/files/mowadaboxewaweremuwidinir.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://climacom.eu/userfiles/files/xabubukexewivaz.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://swhwsolution.it/ckeditor-ckfinder-integration/uploads/files/rotidezipexulopaxugejosox.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_off0000c177.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xC177 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_01_sfnt_off0000d98e.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xD98E 10688 bytes
SHA-256: 93e7db4a99f7de3f25602b7e52b658f9c8c73fb23c57dc926c88a23f982e53aa
font_02_sfnt_off0000f20a.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF20A 16236 bytes
SHA-256: f80a58e2a8f97e3fa019a6831e0d116c28ccdc46a723ea52275f1dafc4dcb001