Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 09345a9a10d5b4e3…

MALICIOUS

PDF

78.7 KB Created: 2021-04-18 14:05:39 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7) First seen: 2021-05-26
MD5: 5839d29426cee225717fa97f637f1713 SHA-1: b884190eb04876dd83b4145e4ecc69cd07459783 SHA-256: 09345a9a10d5b4e3c6e5ab8cb5056c6016a2e15068bd82de58e924d9b3cab310
126 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF file was detected as malicious by ClamAV and an ML classifier, indicating a high likelihood of malicious intent. The presence of numerous embedded URLs, many pointing to disposable domains and structured as a link farm, suggests a phishing or malware distribution scheme. The document body, though heavily obfuscated, contains keywords related to textbook downloads, likely serving as a lure.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9998

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://www.uts.cw/sites/default/files/webform/tidenopuzi.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://www.guninetwork.org/system/files/webform/heirri_proposals/nuxikovevevugodir.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.osgeurope.com/sites/osg-corporate.dev/files/webform/99469138220.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://seiary.com/sites/default/files/webform/rec/wugibizipudaxejomite.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.osgeurope.com/sites/osg-corporate.dev/files/webform/19824824677.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.grotekeukens.be/sites/default/files/webform/gmawards2018/sakobonomoduriv.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://portal-mysigma.com/system/files/student-proof/28249136979.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.mothercare.ro/sites/default/files/webform/resumes/jilagofuzepev.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.natsihwa.org.au/sites/default/files/webform/17947704001.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ambrose.edu/sites/default/files/webform/kubuxodadiwozubak.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.pbttphtk.gov.my/sites/default/files/webform/95941620813.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ambrose.edu/sites/default/files/webform/42416127327.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ambrose.edu/sites/default/files/webform/61391242106.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://grossenbacher.co.nz/en/system/files/avoidance-training-certificates/13178745316.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/FevRqgeaUVY/uplcv?utm_term=ethiopian+grade+11+mathematics+textbook+pdf+free+downloadPDF link annotation
    • https://campusrec.princeton.edu/system/files/webform/26909318775.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://gradfutures.princeton.edu/system/files/webform/xafuzekimizitigemuseli.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_off0000f55e.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF55E 5944 bytes
SHA-256: 5b73a9695342b71460b2d19f4c61397c19af1d35facad004d7ed340fc325809a
font_01_sfnt_off0001098b.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x1098B 10692 bytes
SHA-256: 322ee1eea2505868acce09abe6d01849d2ad01b6d51c6f88d279c36153bb1bae

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