Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 c5568258d0433c5e…

MALICIOUS

PDF

77.9 KB Created: 2021-09-10 03:37:14 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-12
MD5: f82458dd04683cda99c258d85756573d SHA-1: c96ed120747ab597cd90aa009cb2915955b10b19 SHA-256: c5568258d0433c5e172d0a5aca81776781288ea4fffe71c71c844c54c38983c2
126 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

The PDF contains numerous embedded URLs, many pointing to disposable domains, indicating a link farm designed to redirect users. The heuristic 'PDF_SEO_DISPOSABLE_LINK_FARM' strongly suggests this malicious intent. While no scripts were explicitly extracted, the PDF structure and embedded links are indicative of a phishing or malware distribution lure, likely leveraging embedded JavaScript for malicious actions.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9943

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://a-metal.e-giant.net/archive/file/files/mibogefitinika.pdf In PDF document text
    • https://khotelmarket.com/FileData/ckfinder/files/20210909_838B966DBD6160A9.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.jasfec.com/imgs/uploads/lidizubatojuputozodiguvi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://miraesusan.com/ckupload/files/52487471961.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://avenue102.com/uploads/file/72871497149.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://suhrsmad.dk/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/161389559beb7e---bafaworawewotolurun.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://moveo-sport.pl/userfiles/file/9887193290.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://stcc-sa.com/motakamel/Ups/files/71681565921.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://aquafilling.com/userfiles/file/34184080104.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://hanstime.com/userData/board/file/69294614825.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://msslink.ru/userfiles/files/44776801676.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://triosms.com/userfiles/file/70365628273.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://fthyhs.com/resource/docContentImg/file/2021-09-08/02a853f731f4eee282c5ed9c03aa4df6.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://weighlessthisyear.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/sinojofiremaniwe.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://studiofelician.com/userfiles/files/kafukeponepali.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://chaodontuonglai.vn/uploads/ck_upload/files/59989335425.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.phuongdonggolf.vn/app/webroot/uploads/files/betosapulobok.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://radio-salsa.com/php/rs/filesupload/file/72387103059.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://rs-entp.com/upload/file/vurunosi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://pre-www.bridge-academy.com/uploaded/ckeditor/files/sogoxuxometagitogodo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://nhatrangpalace.net/app/webroot/upload/files/6494961671.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://yangpupark.com/uploadfile/files/kexosetimigebotowekezofep.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ozcetinler.com/userfiles/file/62590781223.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://grootformaatspandoeken.nl/userfiles/file/tuwatodev.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://sportsgarten.com/editorData/file/nubami.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/skout/mBVl/~3/YTWXjIUwRh0/uplcv?utm_term=5000+followers+apk+unlimited+coinsPDF 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_off0000cb37.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xCB37 11216 bytes
SHA-256: 41d0f3dbd28ff9480590cb1430455fd3aafe0b4f7997f6fc0f32632f909cab2e
font_01_sfnt_off0000e589.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xE589 17032 bytes
SHA-256: 8ad01168e1128330b29d869e855e1d781aa40278c005d31212f01108e0189f28
font_02_sfnt_off000111eb.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x111EB 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1