Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 10744fee3e57a6e8…

MALICIOUS

PDF

71.0 KB Created: 2021-04-26 23:23:04 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7) First seen: 2021-05-29
MD5: 34deddd571e94ff88351ef842fc4614e SHA-1: 11b9452f886d237dfbe4d7de8ebc43dfb3c00aa5 SHA-256: 10744fee3e57a6e8e4fc1ea4c6122cf7fd7bda28e12044bedf9abb8bd8096598
126 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

This PDF document was flagged by ML classifiers and ClamAV as malicious, indicating a high likelihood of malicious intent. The heuristic 'PDF_SEO_DISPOSABLE_LINK_FARM' suggests the document is designed as a link farm, pointing to numerous distinct hosts, likely to distribute malware or phish for credentials. While no scripts were extracted, the embedded URLs and the nature of the heuristics point towards a phishing or malware distribution attack pattern.

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://grossenbacher.co.nz/en/system/files/avoidance-training-certificates/3242210986.pdf In PDF document text
    • https://www.mainephilanthropy.org/sites/default/files/wimatetomowitiki.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://natsihwa.org.au/sites/default/files/webform/degajakuko.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://spotlight-sites.com/sites/default/files/webform/loboje.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://extranet.blanchisserie-toulousaine-de-sante.com/sites/extranet.blanchisserie-toulousaine-de-sante.com/files/documents/justificatifs/pefusoxewirevujilo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://vectorcorp.net/sites/default/files/webform/resume/danodajanenalidadalibebav.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.ofalloncasting.com/sites/default/files/webform/tirudekamevajoluzagobumi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.osgeurope.com/sites/osg-corporate.dev/files/webform/povufukawonafano.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.termis.org/system/files/webform/776381217.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ambrose.edu/sites/default/files/webform/71027525942.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/~3/1xuhb7AK25c/uplcv?utm_term=physics+halliday+resnick+solutions+manualPDF link annotation
    • https://www.ice.cam.ac.uk/sites/www.ice.cam.ac.uk/files/webform/8342566550.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://minorsoncampus.princeton.edu/system/files/webform/fujixedapilevunagujos.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://thesanfordschool.asu.edu/sites/default/files/webform/63066688876.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://campusrec.princeton.edu/system/files/webform/wawojamifot.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_off0000cb5d.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xCB5D 5228 bytes
SHA-256: bfc0260735268dc047bebb94cdbdf3f63863784af0efa622626b99f0a27c238c
font_01_sfnt_off0000dce7.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xDCE7 10652 bytes
SHA-256: 62743280e1cdf692be8cd33deffc832716550e4df569b826dac9ea885815ac2f
font_02_sfnt_off00010100.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x10100 4324 bytes
SHA-256: 1158d95dac44631f497756703988ba3645251422e7ff0015d3fca430225e7c3e