Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 56e5e8fb1bacaf00…

MALICIOUS

PDF

85.8 KB Created: 2021-05-21 02:40:50 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7) First seen: 2021-10-23
MD5: 18629134bf76ff5207b4198e780665fc SHA-1: ac52eaffdb7168ee564c31c2feb0f43f7a4666ac SHA-256: 56e5e8fb1bacaf0062804b6d487c1192055b449c7eb781ce31bb7c7f493d4d26
186 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF file contains numerous external links, many pointing to disposable hosting services, indicating a link farm or SEO spamming operation. The document body, though partially corrupted, suggests a lure related to sewing machine instructions. The presence of PDF_SEO_LINK_FARM and PDF_SEO_DISPOSABLE_LINK_FARM heuristics, along with ClamAV detection and ML flagging, strongly suggests malicious intent. The primary goal appears to be redirecting users to potentially malicious websites.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9998

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/strik?utm_term=silvercrest+maquina+de+coser+manual+de+instrucciones PDF link annotation
    • https://buzoraxuv.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/4/3/134366179/puxidu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://static.s123-cdn-static.com/uploads/4386087/normal_5ff65d3dc6b9e.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn-cms.f-static.net/uploads/4383451/normal_60609fd110cb5.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://vagapirub.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/4/6/134648019/2369079.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://zemutixo.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/4/8/134865820/83937f1e17.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn-cms.f-static.net/uploads/4410415/normal_5fe6d51e14d4e.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://sodefabufu.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/4/4/134473286/tijowupub-vimoxutobixelul.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn-cms.f-static.net/uploads/4454424/normal_5fd2684bcc9ed.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn-cms.f-static.net/uploads/4494875/normal_6030cdc1d3f73.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://fudanologakobur.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/5/3/135394175/sizoramemir.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn-cms.f-static.net/uploads/4381738/normal_6033b69eafeee.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://pevarigemi.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/5/3/135303959/zajesoberi-vulixap-xewaxadugiliju-jaribuwemedoj.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/In PDF document text
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/typedesigners.htmlIn PDF document text
    • https://uploads.strikinglycdn.com/files/6332b604-16c3-4566-99d5-c3f96c81a247/33490303343.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://uploads.strikinglycdn.com/files/0863e5ed-0164-4f93-a067-c6c0b965b8c5/50370071570.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://uploads.strikinglycdn.com/files/d89d8bdb-c6e5-4d0a-9400-bb42a511dd7a/35307105098.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://uploads.strikinglycdn.com/files/eba93db2-9c92-48ab-82cc-55a2236654f3/46574104239.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://uploads.strikinglycdn.com/files/922649e1-eaae-4107-b6e3-360b1e2a1ae3/midotizesem.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
    • 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_off0000ee93.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xEE93 5372 bytes
SHA-256: 6a847f8d567117e73ce2b43522fa11a4ec46f70ec967a345b886b336cd480b88
font_01_sfnt_off000100c3.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x100C3 17308 bytes
SHA-256: 2c215b69cf3a842d5c064e8cbfeeeda3e817a762d23ba8912e0f41e9145b9ae5
font_02_sfnt_off00013278.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x13278 16204 bytes
SHA-256: a95eff378c135b1ab40d10b3cd1da1bafbc07f86005f57898d079c90d712ddbd