Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 b52b2ad02c2a0125…

MALICIOUS

PDF

78.5 KB Created: 2021-09-20 13:14:06 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-26
MD5: 39fc1663660578485b2c7b4ecc0b1954 SHA-1: 53983ab8191df886ddf3ac550b3a484a093160e6 SHA-256: b52b2ad02c2a01251d3de4b9657341caa3c17a205652a2239d6b1e50b046cee9
126 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

The PDF document was flagged by ML classifiers and ClamAV as malicious, specifically as a phishing trojan. It contains numerous embedded URLs, many of which are part of a link farm hosted on disposable domains, suggesting an attempt to distribute malicious content or phish for credentials. The heuristic PDF_SEO_DISPOSABLE_LINK_FARM indicates a high volume of links to potentially untrusted hosts.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9949

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://medvor.ru/uplcv?utm_term=minecraft+paper+server+mods PDF link annotation
    • https://sharidendesignasphalt.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/f18075933d38b39b3ca719b8a0f357fc/sitakamuf.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ekorepetycje.eu/Upload/file/feraxozawaxuxeg.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.xyoaa.org/sites/default/files/files/20824367810.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://yearbookplus.com/uploads/ckfinder/files/zopozevor.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://jvlegacyhomerepairsmd.com/nbloom/fckuploads/file/sikutisadube.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://srldirect.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/pazafanutepikoxerimo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://festivaldelmaridaje.com/sgi_userfiles/userfiles/files/nogakebaweb.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://heydarbaba.org/resimler/files/pawewagugu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://wimborst-ceramics.nl/ckeditor/ckfinder/userfiles/files/20104877341.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://xn--80aap0abfiql8h.xn--p1ai/admin/ckfinder/userfiles/files/terudazuri.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ccforum.kr/uploads/file/1631329986.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://atlas-consulting.ro/fckeditor/fisiere/file/ruzokafagavagob.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://sooclose.eu/upload/File/8594156510.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://rent-lease-no1.com/userfiles/file/20210912023017.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://soundspace.eu/Upload/file/24345179721.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://otohondamientay.com/upload/files/biboxefegogovilufulotot.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://agendatourvietnam.com/hinhanh/file/58866782240.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://onyx-innovations.com/assets/ckfinder/userfiles/files/debezuvesonix.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://xn----ctbguteehkho5h.xn--p1ai/ckfinder/userfiles/files/19266823285.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://bostoncake888.com/UserFiles/files/rutokifukodiko.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://akilanews.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/45502485034.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://jooli.ru/ckfinder/userfiles/files/830375479.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.domaine-de-la-ferme.fr/ckfinder/userfiles/files/28483477994.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://xn--2e0b30g3uq7pay7m.com/upload/fckeditor/file/79487438166.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://maszyny.pl/userfiles/file/39670487730.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_off0000cce9.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xCCE9 17948 bytes
SHA-256: b59b1e2af89e45970bf3eea6c0173029fe4870ebc48575fc45fcd4ca91fded28
font_01_sfnt_off0000fbd3.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xFBD3 10792 bytes
SHA-256: f920aad49bed7cb6f497ada2b9c8afdedb37eb5ca1dcb3df84868fa7ebdce535
font_02_sfnt_off000114b4.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x114B4 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1