Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 0d961d7387a92041…

MALICIOUS

PDF

70.8 KB Created: 2021-04-15 07:36:30 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7)
MD5: 8fdf7b4eddfbaaaca3db99b42144bb35 SHA-1: 3c35575e83d307cee78927ec4722ebe779a83e82 SHA-256: 0d961d7387a92041f53a60eac6c54093f7e581683ea8f662854408e22aa9611b
126 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF contains numerous embedded URLs, many of which are hosted on seemingly legitimate domains but are part of a link farm designed to redirect users. The ML classifier and ClamAV detection strongly indicate malicious intent, likely phishing or malware distribution. The presence of external URIs and a link farm heuristic points to an attempt to redirect users to malicious sites.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9742

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.woonsocketri.org/system/temporary/webform/kebadewanizokodijixupid.pdf
    • http://www.pacificsportfraservalley.com/sites/default/files/webform/zasadavatemomafupe.pdf
    • https://www.mainephilanthropy.org/sites/default/files/30695142459.pdf
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/typedesigners.html
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/skout/mBVl/~3/1KS0DP0cxss/uplcv?utm_term=logitech+k800+manual
    • https://www.healthdata.org/sites/default/files/resumes/fanonexujezurexuli.pdf
    • https://printandmail.princeton.edu/system/files/webform/85064040694.pdf
    • https://printandmail.princeton.edu/system/files/webform/zupedofijemurak.pdf
    • https://minorsoncampus.princeton.edu/system/files/webform/vogifowisawab.pdf
    • https://ec.europa.eu/eip/agriculture/sites/default/files/webform/27560642257.pdf
    • https://gradfutures.princeton.edu/system/files/webform/xafuzekimizitigemuseli.pdf
    • https://www.healthdata.org/sites/default/files/resumes/58023923203.pdf
    • https://minorsoncampus.princeton.edu/system/files/webform/fujixedapilevunagujos.pdf
    • https://printandmail.princeton.edu/system/files/webform/67925993666.pdf
    • http://scripts.sil.org/OFL

Extracted artifacts 2

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
font_00_sfnt_off0000e083.bin
31bcd163fab96641908e91bc643be331fb24250b35a6e0536e0d190afda284c1
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xE083 5280 bytes
font_01_sfnt_off0000f25d.bin
6a09635c7a08f643ac7ce70d2d642bb0a5a60b34ae0a4fa996cbbda5a52110f7
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF25D 10984 bytes