Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 049d078c4db0884b…

MALICIOUS

PDF

68.8 KB Created: 2021-04-07 21:33:02 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7) First seen: 2021-05-22
MD5: 75af0a7c5560626d4d0929f968a8d71d SHA-1: 47a521fb3377e376341c3e811ed17ecc7e4d4dfd SHA-256: 049d078c4db0884b59729fc3380b859b34e617b197aa146d497c697ff7baaf81
126 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

This PDF file was flagged by a machine learning classifier and ClamAV as malicious, indicating it likely contains malicious content. The document body and embedded URLs suggest a lure to a website, potentially for phishing or malware distribution. While no scripts were explicitly extracted, the PDF structure and heuristic firings point towards a malicious intent, possibly involving exploitation or redirection.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9997

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 https://grossenbacher.co.nz/en/system/files/avoidance-training-certificates/tojawi.pdf In PDF document text
    • https://aboss.by/sites/default/files/webform/12404161593.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.jts.org.jo/sites/default/files/webform/1653940235.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.woonsocketri.org/system/temporary/webform/bogobovimefegaf.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.sumnercountyhospital.org/sites/default/files/webform/bavowusakixonodokuja.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.birdlifebotswana.org.bw/sites/default/files/webform/sightings-sketches/13349970620.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.woonsocketri.org/system/temporary/webform/makepepatamizozixijefawop.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.enwidth.com/sites/default/files/webform/resumes/sojinikud.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.grotekeukens.be/sites/default/files/webform/gmawards2018/dakatiwilu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://grossenbacher.co.nz/en/system/files/avoidance-training-certificates/basolidigululaba.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/In PDF document text
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/typedesigners.htmlIn PDF document text
    • http://www.daltonmaag.com/In PDF document text
    • http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Uplcv/~3/YTWXjIUwRh0/uplcv?utm_term=new+cutting+edge+upper+intermediate+workbook+pdfPDF link annotation
    • https://drones.princeton.edu/system/files/webform/janewif.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 3

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
font_00_sfnt_off0000c323.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xC323 5412 bytes
SHA-256: 5ddcfd06763d094cfa7aa3caacf77d79280a2140f191b54bb157d99878ae4b01
font_01_sfnt_off0000d586.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xD586 10060 bytes
SHA-256: dc17b131783d401ac22a2e51128b1f48b4054ae45e03237850bd58aa46b076f6
font_02_sfnt_off0000f81b.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF81B 4324 bytes
SHA-256: d1f4a20f0e35a0564be54678b929bb8c711862c507f070c2b9a6abea8daf4378

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