Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 00768278360143a2…

MALICIOUS

PDF

65.1 KB Created: 2021-04-18 05:44:27 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7) First seen: 2021-05-22
MD5: b4f48411d55bcdd56ecce9966d30748d SHA-1: bf8dc2e2e3baa2e45ef47730568312807b84f768 SHA-256: 00768278360143a21602cb481cba648e63630839f3b68d8427c508d6f93d5aa7
126 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF contains numerous embedded URLs and is flagged by heuristics as a link farm and potentially malicious. The ML classifier and ClamAV detection strongly indicate malicious intent. While no scripts were explicitly extracted, the PDF structure and URL patterns suggest it's designed to redirect users to malicious sites, likely for phishing or to download further payloads.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9998

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://portal-mysigma.com/system/files/student-proof/47432021317.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://cicatsalud.com/html/sites/default/files/webform/15691680518.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.osgeurope.com/sites/osg-corporate.dev/files/webform/10654010608.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://grossenbacher.co.nz/en/system/files/avoidance-training-certificates/13178745316.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://europa-ts.ru/sites/default/files/webform/sujeludepotunebimetoravij.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://seiary.com/sites/default/files/webform/rec/6045441545.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://russian-ice-spb.ru/sites/default/files/webform/files/77599308563.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.visitsavannah.com/sites/default/files/webform/90994069376.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.newburghgroup.com/sites/default/files/webform/resumes/41319995155.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.enwidth.com/sites/default/files/webform/resumes/lerudaxalopavowurugepoviw.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.viachristi.org/sites/default/files/webform/89070061484.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://cicatsalud.com/html/sites/default/files/webform/604022749.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.muttypawsacademy.com/sites/default/files/webform/vaccines/30199048500.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/In PDF document text
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/typedesigners.htmlIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/skout/mBVl/~3/cv9VXjIrmdE/uplcv?utm_term=french+english+dictionary+amazonPDF link annotation
    • https://campusrec.princeton.edu/system/files/webform/18758627140.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://minorsoncampus.princeton.edu/system/files/webform/vogifowisawab.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.vub.be/sites/vub/files/webform/ludazerubadariwevulefaxu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://lib.asu.edu/system/files/webform/85824103047.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://scripts.sil.org/OFLIn PDF document text

Extracted artifacts 2

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
font_00_sfnt_off0000c108.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xC108 5460 bytes
SHA-256: 8e6e298fea53d80a1beee38b1b98e06318fb89b928db0de5965b9982d7da050b
font_01_sfnt_off0000d386.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xD386 10048 bytes
SHA-256: f3cf656af74190be829dc6293e52c5a88e51abe4725d49a88eddb32c3cb164f7