Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 fd21a21cf968fae7…

MALICIOUS

PDF

77.8 KB Created: 2021-09-10 08:22:57 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-16
MD5: e56cd6adb11e0d358157f8a6daa2872d SHA-1: aa64f043e7e93fe923c5476fd73e21bc01ef0506 SHA-256: fd21a21cf968fae712b286db3ae99dcf4f0e8912d91d90730e668579428d8041
126 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment T1204.002 Malicious Link

The PDF file was detected as malicious by ML classifiers and ClamAV, indicating a phishing or trojan payload. It contains numerous embedded URLs, many of which point to disposable hosting and are structured as a link farm, a common tactic for distributing malware or conducting phishing campaigns. The presence of 'utm_term' parameters in some URLs suggests an attempt to track user engagement with these lures.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9943

Heuristics 5

  • ClamAV: Pdf.Phishing.Trojan-d2528dad23a95d95-d2528dad23a95d95-10044376-0 critical CLAMAV_DETECTION
    ClamAV detected this file as malware: Pdf.Phishing.Trojan-d2528dad23a95d95-d2528dad23a95d95-10044376-0
  • 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://crewmak.ru/uplcv?utm_term=gta+5+mobile+_1 PDF link annotation
    • http://quickfix-poland.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/161374e8fedf94---69708055554.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ipost.mn/ckfinder/userfiles/files/somaketivodinawol.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://xn--80aaffebba2apgigwiiececnggk9e4k.xn--p1ai/pict/file/jokupewonuwesolatu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://flomogroup.com/upload/files/30859030145.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cylinder96.ru/admin/ckfinder/userfiles/files/45471731327.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://idrogastermoclima.it/Utentifile/FCKPage/file/rezinetolajenatozakoxagi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://joelcsimonesq.com/customer/3/d/9/3d947ad6ce2568d98b832ccf5548371bFile/demenixavuvizure.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://chataphan.com/file_media/file_image/file/nobolizekiv.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.specemc.ru/upload/files/24583018113.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://its-bulgaria.bg/files/file/83775007683.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://quickfix-poland.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/161391ab823915---tidubuginoribexuzosinipe.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.diktu.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/161383da7b37c6---99784559734.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://beta-rc.com/upload/files/90573174556.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.jancsoalapitvany.hu/ckfinder/userfiles/files/mabijixilesisusevaxerari.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://gallerylingard.com/uploads/file/56672696815.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://gtlitalia.com/userfiles/files/12875386306.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.nevjegykiraly.hu/userfiles/files/60922750646.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://hamishehbaharcarpet.com/My_Project/Hamishe_bahar/ahar_img/files/24326042410.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ricarda-allegra.de/userfiles/file/95410012792.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://krupongs.com/images/file/zababefekoxikotazozamaleg.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://masukpt1.com/contents/files/49602300471.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://willettelaw.com/customer/3/d/9/3d947ad6ce2568d98b832ccf5548371bFile/sumikene.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://habibitoursegypt.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/61935402147.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://abnigakgdsg.friendship-match.com/upload/files/84168333910.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ruresept.ru/files/file/12072190711.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_off0000ce0e.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xCE0E 10296 bytes
SHA-256: c66eca6c690705b2abf2d753e762c3159e8adaad2f31d4be640f7f2d9b816e09
font_01_sfnt_off0000e55e.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xE55E 17272 bytes
SHA-256: 0a0cc161575dc11ba6065f4ba50c1fb394e4670ee2667087866074fe2ab717b2
font_02_sfnt_off000111f3.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x111F3 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1