Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 077a3d2a9bb09327…

MALICIOUS

PDF

74.6 KB Created: 2021-04-19 14:18:58 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7) First seen: 2021-05-29
MD5: de59f603c4a2ad70639ef39a1f647edb SHA-1: de610f17c4328dd1b96badd28cdbe6e8adc685f1 SHA-256: 077a3d2a9bb09327cbfd97379fda6055123e11cf89fff7193276c3bd102ef7b2
126 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF document contains numerous embedded URLs, many of which are structured as link farms on disposable hosting. The ClamAV detection and ML classifier strongly indicate malicious intent, specifically phishing. The document body, though heavily obfuscated, appears to be a lure related to a common search query, designed to redirect users to malicious sites.

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 https://architecturaldesigninc.com/sites/default/files/vudezuluxi.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://www.sumnercountyhospital.org/sites/default/files/webform/sinuwoxifazuroli.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.osgeurope.com/sites/osg-corporate.dev/files/webform/47147916176.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://cicatsalud.com/html/sites/default/files/webform/kizosilubim.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.enwidth.com/sites/default/files/webform/resumes/noranixuguwetepefosobad.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.ofalloncasting.com/sites/default/files/webform/taxebuvokorutupimapo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.friendlycc.com/sites/default/files/webform/47778491084.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.mothercare.ro/sites/default/files/webform/resumes/95866450710.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://cicatsalud.com/html/sites/default/files/webform/99368311749.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://klm3fg.grhosting.cz/sites/default/files/webform/files/78191676466.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.pbttphtk.gov.my/sites/default/files/webform/vojazasazobixupolaxi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.muttypawsacademy.com/sites/default/files/webform/vaccines/65827293628.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.osgeurope.com/sites/osg-corporate.dev/files/webform/gurasijam.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://cicatsalud.com/html/sites/default/files/webform/sidetarebuw.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.muttypawsacademy.com/sites/default/files/webform/vaccines/taxevoxasubosiwugudabi.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/DOqCt-cVA4I/uplcv?utm_term=what+public+company+owns+lysolPDF link annotation
    • https://lib.asu.edu/system/files/webform/vabomabexajamoja.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://lib.asu.edu/system/files/webform/delibenapu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://drones.princeton.edu/system/files/webform/vijebutipide.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://drones.princeton.edu/system/files/webform/61493424170.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_off0000e48d.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xE48D 5424 bytes
SHA-256: 0530993f00f30a5cc16014dc2af9609f8fe471fde6666c67a7bdd3259ded8c08
font_01_sfnt_off0000f6f7.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF6F7 11308 bytes
SHA-256: 4073c816510e71a236802ad0527696ca80afa426c9e07dbb1cd87097e56d7b2e

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