Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 5cb36c02af9a25ca…

MALICIOUS

PDF

81.8 KB Created: 2021-09-09 21:27:22 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-05
MD5: b5172976eb2f911b630ea9f7056b7b51 SHA-1: 2203273192e1a23775e35770911cae80532a6206 SHA-256: 5cb36c02af9a25ca2ba7ef007778056f7247ed06c16b9400711d80876b08c046
126 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment T1204.002 Malicious Link

The PDF file was flagged by multiple heuristics, including a critical ClamAV detection and an ML classifier, indicating malicious intent. The presence of numerous embedded URLs, many pointing to disposable domains and configured with UTM parameters, strongly suggests a link farm designed to redirect users to potentially malicious content. The document body is heavily obfuscated and unreadable, further supporting the malicious nature of the file.

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 http://salonorganica.ru/upload/files/posizimigarixiwilemu.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://www.physedu.in/newsite/userfiles/files/22947547390.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://web5gstore.com/Files/files/4495035107.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://okeefesreef.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/12544426086.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ncsccalgary.com/userfiles/files/zexerix.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://stihoplet.by/upload/editor/files/3563958719.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://homestayhoian.thamtuddt.com/uploads/image/files/xuguwaru.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://dzido.pl/userfiles/file/92543821486.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://aspit.ro/imagini_ws/mularirabidiboboloma.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://stavclearing.ru/upload/files/52638315710.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://stkvn.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/c3e43868cd21e42e386035c12027bb30/zofabatanakafimo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://thaiboxes.com/piceditor/file/bajusiserulagawadeniwapu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://tareeapartment.com/user_img/files/siruxi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://wupaojichangjia.com/d/files/23413089833.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://girisimhaber.com/uploads/file/77643526454.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://circolosilverblufitnessclub.eu/userfiles/files/50496540588.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://serrechevalier-skifun.com/imagesfile/1534128673.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://hightopeducation.com/cms_uploaded/file/89442899861.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://atlantidegattico.it/file/22455698953.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://whiteplacard.com/UserFiles/file/78464965933.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://censcakmu.org/board/file/files/70372711753.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://retentionstudentexperience.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/161371eafc1a15---fuzaxiz.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://baovethanglongmb.com/upload/files/82238052145.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://xn----7sbbbizu2bxaod.xn--p1ai/userfiles/file/56225041896.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Uplcv/~3/Om9ozkHLxGw/uplcv?utm_term=all+gods+names+listPDF link annotation
    • 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_off0000dc4f.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xDC4F 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_01_sfnt_off0000f461.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF461 17616 bytes
SHA-256: 5b7fe5731ac27bdd070ce71a0284756585422f66811b9e59c5727c0bab9cbaf8
font_02_sfnt_off00012218.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x12218 10472 bytes
SHA-256: 5f2e280c0490f2fd926bd8c2f8c908c796cfc7764173b7ac54c5381d567cd92f