Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 10db8c03f983af86…

MALICIOUS

PDF

73.7 KB Created: 2021-04-17 13:31:11 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7) First seen: 2021-05-26
MD5: c720c3fe7e87e6a34c180fa77e653720 SHA-1: 81c7ad2d6d3e03148900c437fe9f10bd4c6497d8 SHA-256: 10db8c03f983af86af491a189a11859c8a2ba030e53b91e6ce374bb70c8bc0bb
126 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

This PDF file was flagged by multiple heuristics, including a high-confidence ML classifier and ClamAV, indicating malicious content. The PDF_SEO_DISPOSABLE_LINK_FARM heuristic suggests it's part of a link farm designed to deceive users. While no scripts were explicitly extracted, the presence of embedded URLs and the overall structure point towards a phishing or redirection attempt, likely leveraging a spearphishing attachment vector.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9999

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.mothercare.ro/sites/default/files/webform/resumes/tizagoge.pdf In PDF document text
    • https://europa-ts.ru/sites/default/files/webform/81905598419.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.enwidth.com/sites/default/files/webform/resumes/43403042061.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://portal-mysigma.com/system/files/student-proof/wofofokarawivuboniju.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.mothercare.ro/sites/default/files/webform/resumes/42535902170.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://spotlight-sites.com/sites/default/files/webform/44923699615.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.natsihwa.org.au/sites/default/files/webform/welukugipevodabarovefeweb.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.jwico.com/sites/default/files/webform/kupoxogij.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.friendlycc.com/sites/default/files/webform/98819861428.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.a1touchsolution.nl/sites/default/files/73086307569.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.visitsavannah.com/sites/default/files/webform/nodarinit.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.jts.org.jo/sites/default/files/webform/1653940235.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/1eyvgo/aqOO/~3/PmAiG5ZyT-k/uplcv?utm_term=is+sagemcom+a+good+routerPDF link annotation
    • https://ec.europa.eu/eip/agriculture/sites/default/files/webform/vojevo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://minorsoncampus.princeton.edu/system/files/webform/kuwidiloj.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://community.princeton.edu/system/files/webform/jidubiziro.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_off0000e4e1.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xE4E1 5164 bytes
SHA-256: d0bc920add13c2f4df0945db52bc1d0d982ada79923206c1154c7febd0d97fe6
font_01_sfnt_off0000f658.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF658 10364 bytes
SHA-256: 3d1400b48f8d27850252a68529705ace98bb23c58d9a4dc469541a3196fe8c2c