Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 f56df4e7e3783e28…

MALICIOUS

PDF

70.8 KB Created: 2021-09-27 03:49:35 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-11-24
MD5: 92f8b03f2020d6ff319c66586ccda45d SHA-1: 2e1d9725598daceb370665f93dc8e8673ce41039 SHA-256: f56df4e7e3783e281247c19f7d3b2c11db4e8d399f179f2aa6ad1ee283cd009d
126 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

The PDF file was flagged as malicious by ML classifiers and ClamAV, indicating a high likelihood of malicious intent. It contains numerous embedded URLs pointing to various PDF files hosted on different domains, suggesting a link farm or distribution network. The presence of PDF_SEO_DISPOSABLE_LINK_FARM heuristic further supports this, indicating a tactic to manipulate search engine results or distribute content. No scripts were extracted, but the overall structure and URL distribution point towards a phishing or content distribution scheme.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9956

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://eot.mn/uploads/userfiles/files/64768743554.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://rosniyom.com/userfiles/files/fojiwemijusulipu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://associatedreclaimed.reclaimedoils.com/userfiles/files/61829023400.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://szabobuszberles.hu/files/files/81204163691.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://oncallanatomist.org/ckfinder/userfiles/files/81405123346.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://bouwbedrijfbouwheer.nl/userfiles/file/geguxowudufot.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://studiopedrazzini.eu/userfiles/files/gupevikogi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://thefertilizergranulators.com/d/files/wesagozokolol.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://fanaf.org/article_ressources/file/26453417890.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://captaincook.hu/userfiles/file/15207479049.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://aokunoil.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/39772097208.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://netcsemege.elelmiszer-hazhozszallitas.hu/ckfinder/userfiles/files/46603278969.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://letstravelforacause.com/miet/assets/files/nowumu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://gamletaarnhuset.no/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1614762003663d---wotijixawova.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://indyskischool.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/18836305131.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://tryinvest.eu/userfiles/files/97697851707.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://malifer.hu/upload/file/misisesiwuwojuzawagaxir.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://xinyuemu.net/assets/202109/files/20210907212841637568.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://xn--2e0b30g3uq7pay7m.com/upload/fckeditor/file/sumok.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://avis-medical.ma/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/0493f9f97bbc172604748908830cca03/77177869667.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://spielundlicht.de/content_provider/documents/files/kawujojadarawexalu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://chinalabware.ru/d/files/87485316908.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.comperat-89.fr/ckfinder/userfiles/files/lewekujafowisezala.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/1eyvgo/aqOO/~3/YTWXjIUwRh0/uplcv?utm_term=mega+ramp+car+jumping+mod+apkPDF 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_off0000b0a5.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xB0A5 17364 bytes
SHA-256: db1153d8b88d6bf663a7500a328e966c21314ad0cc9a529daeeb735f66c2fb46
font_01_sfnt_off0000dd5e.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xDD5E 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_02_sfnt_off0000f575.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF575 10860 bytes
SHA-256: 0429b7d1768280d2f219fed83a40aa9c5bb5c48565047fec1ab06b5eeda6871a