Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 fed0fe22ffe859be…

MALICIOUS

PDF

72.8 KB Created: 2021-10-03 00:14:33 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-11-25
MD5: 2c779820235e08ab247d81309ac89f72 SHA-1: f9e8a0f8e80e15fc4105f1507907e1ce9d4badef SHA-256: fed0fe22ffe859bee1c4069a45dbfbcb336a0630f873123e8dd7db223a3e3b24
126 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

The PDF file was identified as malicious by ML classifiers and ClamAV, specifically as a phishing trojan. Heuristics indicate the PDF functions as a link farm, containing numerous external URIs pointing to disposable hosting, with one notable URI being https://crysiq.ru/uplcv. The presence of embedded JavaScript, though not directly analyzed for specific actions, suggests potential for malicious script execution within the PDF context. The overall structure and numerous links point towards an attempt to direct users to potentially harmful websites.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9973

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://crysiq.ru/uplcv?utm_term=my+heart+will+trust+in+you+hillsong+lyrics PDF link annotation
    • http://valencia.thepokeluau.com/uploads/files/nojelajebu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://nstoplana.rs/ckfinder/userfiles/files/jezizosatow.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://enslev-anlaegsservice.dk/userfiles/file/gugiwapurakitunaso.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.renfrewareahealthvillage.ca/ckfinder/userfiles/files/wojuwovalajis.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://fsoa.cn/userfiles/file/zukefevinepaf.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://grotech.in/userfiles/file/vusiragu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://old.smartplus.pl/ckfinder/userfiles/files/fetipamukojefosusaviri.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://phutunggiahungoto.com/uploads/files/83845594766.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://caythuocnam.org/images/files/52553034067.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://eastmanllc.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/57489831332.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://k-sta.kr/FileData/ckfinder/files/20210926_995B988A016401D4.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://jfava.gemwareserp.com/userfiles/file/66775049848.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://marathon-gexin.com/Uploadfiles/files/93286242667.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://csc025.com/userfiles/file/20210911152331_4k48ej.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://contua.org/userfiles/file/kisewivijopevelagedaxa.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://digitalpolicycouncil.org/imagenes/file/narosetoxas.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://juha.be/_files/file/87734992689.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://profitaler.com/UserFiles/file/89873776271.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://minuspk.ru/minuspk.ru/userfiles/file/siguku.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://newgrids.com/userfiles/file/48373922812.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://xylemleads.com/userfiles/file/dolakunipomesirubasalibiw.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://garmin10.ddbseven.cl/userfiles/file/radomutojigorofo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://hohsingfiber.com/ufiles/files/6828244410.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.thediethub.in/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16153579a00a10---7633287023.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_off0000b8aa.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xB8AA 16836 bytes
SHA-256: ec6f0e2e959c416810d16d5d959775c82f770da517bb39cf71b643d73e36bea0
font_01_sfnt_off0000e420.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xE420 10804 bytes
SHA-256: b6169897246de56533da2aa7dff3ae868ccaa591f9311a6c27bd9fe15bc48331
font_02_sfnt_off0000fd15.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xFD15 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1