Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 0cfd6c8b37e952cd…

MALICIOUS

PDF

71.9 KB Created: 2021-04-25 11:46:58 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7) First seen: 2021-05-26
MD5: 091a7e97c07a55a6c77cc28ea0e672f6 SHA-1: 89d2b4aaa340ab851bf5ae6f50f6050f89e7fb62 SHA-256: 0cfd6c8b37e952cdebd0051cfc319438ca5d0a65bb2ed56453155debcf4c4a63
126 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF contains numerous embedded URLs pointing to various domains, many of which are flagged as part of a link farm. The ML classifier and ClamAV detection strongly indicate malicious intent, likely for phishing or distributing further malware. The presence of PDF_SEO_DISPOSABLE_LINK_FARM heuristic suggests a deliberate attempt to obscure the final malicious destination through a network of redirecting links.

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://www.enwidth.com/sites/default/files/webform/resumes/79062027218.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://www.pbttphtk.gov.my/sites/default/files/webform/33269367294.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.sumnercountyhospital.org/sites/default/files/webform/zupusozuxabodes.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://oaklandchildcare.org/sites/default/files/webform/85322732160.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://oaklandchildcare.org/sites/default/files/webform/70037852461.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.pharoxglobal.com/sites/default/files/webform/7322176875.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://seiary.com/sites/default/files/webform/rec/netugapufuzutazegiwiwivi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.grotekeukens.be/sites/default/files/webform/gmawards2018/45910982832.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
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Uplcv/~3/Om9ozkHLxGw/uplcv?utm_term=dok+3+math+questionsPDF link annotation
    • https://www.healthdata.org/sites/default/files/resumes/53082175038.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://umatter.princeton.edu/system/files/webform/requests/72435273025.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://campusrec.princeton.edu/system/files/webform/rilawadabovoxilezevateg.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_off0000d07b.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xD07B 5032 bytes
SHA-256: 2540e74d5104f3585350c033d435b886c6b6d99c520d476532be471de9ee5d12
font_01_sfnt_off0000e17d.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xE17D 10564 bytes
SHA-256: f11460591f66a111b181b154f6de532ed40c5339a41e83424f6c91082888fc14
font_02_sfnt_off0001054d.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x1054D 4324 bytes
SHA-256: 1062cd8ddf90f4344fa193b395386d5669df1a952e5759311ca261a71931f361