Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 0d6d916daf3a9a02…

MALICIOUS

PDF

77.5 KB Created: 2021-04-17 19:05:28 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7) First seen: 2021-05-29
MD5: 0b105ae782a6ed13dff225fc0bad2722 SHA-1: c6a7d735548188d1b0c7a59b6205ba4ade82c301 SHA-256: 0d6d916daf3a9a02e29609405ced9fc23e9c6a7b1aa6624a0dc3c11420c10c6c
126 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF file contains numerous embedded URLs, many of which point to websites designed as link farms. The heuristic 'PDF_SEO_DISPOSABLE_LINK_FARM' indicates a high likelihood of malicious intent, aiming to obscure the true destination. The ML classifier and ClamAV detection strongly suggest malicious content, likely phishing or malware distribution.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9996

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 http://spotlight-sites.com/sites/default/files/webform/razodogodipuvubetixem.pdf In PDF document text
    • https://www.visitsavannah.com/sites/default/files/webform/nodarinit.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://web.liderpapel.com/sites/default/files/webform/36759883892.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.natsihwa.org.au/sites/default/files/webform/81826716543.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.blplegal.com/sites/default/files/webform/piselusani.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.a1touchsolution.nl/sites/default/files/95216779236.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://spotlight-sites.com/sites/default/files/webform/sugugijokasu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.blplegal.com/sites/default/files/webform/pifijolaj.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.enwidth.com/sites/default/files/webform/resumes/paxifufal.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.grotekeukens.be/sites/default/files/webform/gmawards2018/30150103061.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://cicatsalud.com/html/sites/default/files/webform/19824170549.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.birdlifebotswana.org.bw/sites/default/files/webform/sightings-sketches/bikepekeroluxujopabiko.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.enwidth.com/sites/default/files/webform/resumes/89382212171.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/1eyvgo/aqOO/~3/3vuEKuznOb8/uplcv?utm_term=integration+of+secx+tanx+dxPDF link annotation
    • 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
    • http://dejavu.sourceforge.netIn PDF document text
    • http://dejavu.sourceforge.net/wiki/index.php/LicenseIn PDF document text

Extracted artifacts 4

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
font_00_sfnt_off0000caab.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xCAAB 4952 bytes
SHA-256: f31eb71369217e3e8708c9430abb8406874cd339b1b9a18f0975602a38ea848e
font_01_sfnt_off0000db8b.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xDB8B 11872 bytes
SHA-256: d43fb79813f813f75968f1d379708d4da691677db1a298255237a90f2159417d
font_02_sfnt_off00010483.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x10483 16080 bytes
SHA-256: e3d583ca8131484f6b7e9991674a220a85ec8466745261d702706f92b0246cac
font_03_sfnt_off0001192b.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x1192B 4324 bytes
SHA-256: a542ec26cea93e049a2e27cd59b1347dd9bbdea13775fd7b822b3c2b3136116f