Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 572cb387f5ce1786…

MALICIOUS

PDF

83.7 KB Created: 2021-09-16 17:09:39 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-11-25
MD5: 4dd91509ded50224aec32242f6f1a2c8 SHA-1: c9576960533a8134b94541625272992dbe67ffe7 SHA-256: 572cb387f5ce1786437df1ed733246b34e15e33699f44a820fc8792c7c20a61c
126 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

The PDF file was flagged by multiple heuristics, including a critical ClamAV detection for 'Pdf.Phishing.Trojan' and an ML classifier indicating maliciousness. The presence of numerous external URIs, many pointing to disposable hosting and employing UTM parameters, suggests a link farm designed to obscure the ultimate destination. The primary URL, 'https://pistant.ru/uplcv?utm_term=download+media+creation+tool+for+windows+7', indicates a lure related to software downloads, likely a phishing attempt to trick users into downloading malware.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9974

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://pistant.ru/uplcv?utm_term=download+media+creation+tool+for+windows+7 PDF link annotation
    • https://swimproject.eu/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/db76f0ba058c3d01d310f0d29dc6c729/ginavexozuse.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://stop-remont.ru/ckfinder/userfiles/files/pusigibeguwufakexofos.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://at2-turbo-j3t.com/contents/files/gatiterifad.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://salman-is.com/userfiles/file/88368489931.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://capthepcongtrinh.com/uploads/news/files/29356254442.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://chinese-wall.tw/upload/files/lejalazofolidezatu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://bachtungcompany.com/upload/files/jilamatisimorixoxanum.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://bacvietexpress.com/upload/userfiles/files/98968657033.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://locnuocvietmy.com/Images_upload/files/98566210301.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://makenie.com/upload/files/tamel.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://makenie.com/upload/files/86703397731.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://quickfix-poland.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1614155ddb1954---junegolalaganajoredused.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ttmplus.com/userfiles/files/bujizabulilomonuvag.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://prosaison.fr/userfiles/files/80164267031.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://cw-cut.com/uploads/file/nolimosavapepono.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://hueide.com/upload/files/viseduvamogejotozit.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://milliondollardesiclub.com/upload_files/featured/files/50086986243.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://harasim.cz/uploaded/files/73279955200.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://aardbeienfeesten.nl/uploadimages/files/59858301701.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://photopuzzle.net/userData/board/file/lowuzurul.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://kaizenlife.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/78266325541.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://frontivo.ro/userfiles/file/907475144.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ranjitabiswas.com/userfiles/files/13999311762.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://inprovitperu.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/wonuvitafiwewojosi.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_off0000e22e.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xE22E 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_01_sfnt_off0000fa45.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xFA45 10776 bytes
SHA-256: cfbb819078cbff831af58de02957c0be85b534ea84b4e0d071f63a0ae0676bf7
font_02_sfnt_off0001131b.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x1131B 17796 bytes
SHA-256: da4a835ad561afb72a046e1eb98a912d2aeba05548d810ea77bdf0c54677edab