Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 c56f3dea7418d5be…

MALICIOUS

PDF

69.9 KB Created: 2021-09-26 02:25:46 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-11-24
MD5: 995eec19188234a4556373bd40384ec8 SHA-1: f53e051b0181f2e52724437805f081835fbb982e SHA-256: c56f3dea7418d5be42fb65d2a1ac4c7063233f2a638a02241ab284ce737e4369
126 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment T1059.007 JavaScript

The sample was detected as malicious by ML classifiers and ClamAV, indicating a high likelihood of malicious intent. The PDF contains numerous embedded links, with the heuristic 'PDF_SEO_DISPOSABLE_LINK_FARM' suggesting a link farm designed to obscure the true destination. While no scripts were explicitly extracted, the presence of embedded links and the nature of the heuristics point towards a phishing or malware distribution scheme.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9951

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://sk-uralstroy.ru/uploads/files/61906924292.pdf In PDF document text
    • https://daynexweb.com/upload/ckfinder/files/7412714836.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://cobmedia.hu/include/zizabotofaxo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ariege.proximeo.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/retamukapupaterazunefa.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.siposferenc.hu/html/bilapobapedefij.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://caytrong.vn/Images_upload/files/64652604874.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://taxfreepoint.com/file/kuruveroremesom.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://nakamurasangyou.jp/app/webroot/uploads/files/10994671403.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://grupo-kayros.com/userfiles/file/30528009838.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ketoanantamhcm.com/uploads/files/gurinikuf.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://maggievanostrand.com/uploads/media/file/filololuzok.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.lenoir-elec.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/21ont0v4alq3o1lmrusus5fj0m/figovasusenarixefawilujo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://abwingsde.com/uploads/files/52289372474.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://mim2010.ru/userfiles/file/49788190610.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://jn-zhsc.com/upload/82868838247.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://acrgruppe.de/userfiles/file/6305693096.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ducthai.vn/userfiles/file/60403456789.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://gfk-schwimmbad.de/i/File/51279536484.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://kotrackusa.com/fckedit_file/file///20210906_19_51_24.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://sevenseahotel.com/uploads/images/files/zidotipifoxufasivimim.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://kildevangen.dk/files/zoruvejixopijebube.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://tkpmission.org/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16140154957ce9---11153372659.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://renetravel.ro/images/files/jonunikerowig.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://tele-fonika.pl/upload/file/15811250356.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/1eyvgo/aqOO/~3/FevRqgeaUVY/uplcv?utm_term=viva+video+hack+apk+downloadPDF 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_off0000aef2.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xAEF2 10460 bytes
SHA-256: 471e3330030d56e8661b6273d6177af371eb230604a193cc6075ccba620e107a
font_01_sfnt_off0000c6a3.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xC6A3 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_02_sfnt_off0000deb5.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xDEB5 16948 bytes
SHA-256: 0cefb1cee53e6d221e39d517461c2024d5fa742a4eadb4d31626010752860bcb