Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 06093064f5b38446…

MALICIOUS

PDF

81.1 KB Created: 2021-04-17 21:22:49 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7) First seen: 2021-05-29
MD5: 513b8ed34216ffb785b1eaba83b55c38 SHA-1: 7b83973274cbb11b5f9f7520dd05dde162f8cd67 SHA-256: 06093064f5b38446020d6315c57c6c3a4083cc6f038e357399b3b81dfa37f2aa
126 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF contains numerous embedded URLs, many of which point to domains that appear to be part of a link farm, as indicated by the PDF_SEO_DISPOSABLE_LINK_FARM heuristic. The ML classifier and ClamAV detection strongly suggest malicious intent, likely phishing or malware distribution. No scripts were extracted, but the structure and URL patterns are indicative of a malicious document.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9997

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://ambrose.edu/sites/default/files/webform/7968200385.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://klm3fg.grhosting.cz/sites/default/files/webform/files/56601188302.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://architecturaldesigninc.com/sites/default/files/sujuxot.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.uts.cw/sites/default/files/webform/suvexaxobufakup.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.uts.cw/sites/default/files/webform/dupoxemijuwavamuvugorudiz.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://architecturaldesigninc.com/sites/default/files/36110977311.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.blplegal.com/sites/default/files/webform/58709767715.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://vectorcorp.net/sites/default/files/webform/resume/86038084563.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://cicatsalud.com/html/sites/default/files/webform/jedirokadezat.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.grotekeukens.be/sites/default/files/webform/gmawards2018/30150103061.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.ofalloncasting.com/sites/default/files/webform/tasuwagorefovufozibojer.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/Uplcv/~3/S30rS-6n6vg/uplcv?utm_term=do+skullcandy+jib+work+with+xbox+onePDF link annotation
    • https://lib.asu.edu/system/files/webform/bejugejotofetuxiw.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_off0000f92d.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF92D 5568 bytes
SHA-256: 581f5e8a014c4d92fcf580c7bf811ec6a3495eb013932736af37c0ee15ddd133
font_01_sfnt_off00010c3f.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x10C3F 13220 bytes
SHA-256: b0d4eaaf9dffe92616589f459f1808ebf16fe9e20763bdd5c6fae1b4c5f87fe0