Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 5d579e02a3d1c42c…

MALICIOUS

PDF

86.1 KB Created: 2021-10-12 00:54:08 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-11-24
MD5: 8bb55668b47ddebe8dd51af7e4708e1c SHA-1: 936cedf4cf6ddef1676a78cbe168e6096d9b6e73 SHA-256: 5d579e02a3d1c42cd6502c5554e9848b47973794f54ea0c3a4742b75e1b68c5a
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 maliciousness. The presence of numerous embedded URLs, many pointing to disposable hosting and employing UTM parameters, strongly suggests a phishing or link-farming attack pattern. The document body is unreadable, but the heuristics and URLs indicate the primary function is to redirect users to external, potentially malicious, sites.

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://krisoc.ru/uplcv?utm_term=how+to+draw+manga+arms PDF link annotation
    • https://aksukartela.com/images_upload/files/29980192998.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://lab4050.com/upload/editor/file/jukemukuwagumeg.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.diktu.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16147a4eceff65---dogikojonijesebedalaz.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://amblesidewindermere.ca/fckuploads/images/file/rivejewe.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://srihemkuntschoolint.com/slbdavbatala/userfiles/file/sabuwexuwozosovalujibil.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://gidaero.com/upload/fckeditor/file/8633701273.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://gaongonmaiphuong.vn/webroot/img/files/rivered.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.koeru.eu/failid/file/35827069443.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://e-junghan.com/userData/board/file/60348434942.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://managedentalclinic.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/8542733869.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://pokrowce-ochronne.pl/Upload/file/zonerilul.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://letnipohar.cz/upload/file/59793140418.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://pankajplast.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/6646513879.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://hurghadalife.net/userfiles/files/zidefebukopuluf.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://intranet.uts.edu.co/portal/app/ckfinder/userfiles/files/gemepesululimabamuni.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://mysilo.com/upload/ckfinder/files/guwojaxiz.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://landtop.com/filespath/files/20210904020753.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://frennphotography.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1614d06c2e35a7---32208952966.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://homestayhoian.vn/uploads/image/files/12640737887.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://veitali.com/upload/files/32107606901.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://rogersdesignhouse.com/uploads/files/xesaloripuzuj.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://cityclick.it/userfiles/files/dozejebenufamuxudabupit.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://stl-log.com/htdocs/cljr/data/files/davanugemumowavofi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://aldobini.it/userfiles/files/puxebikesumenujimutigi.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_off0000e703.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xE703 10396 bytes
SHA-256: 253f0296c035f30ff1ae5b0a166ae03374cbe984891f8e4e70482358528c1134
font_01_sfnt_off0000fe4a.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xFE4A 19952 bytes
SHA-256: f2d1954b7c29ba83b55de9ad6e17b4286c809537117d6173c82f60e0e064f858
font_02_sfnt_off0001322c.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x1322C 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1