Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 11419a2996dd69a4…

MALICIOUS

PDF

80.7 KB Created: 2021-04-14 17:19:47 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7) First seen: 2021-10-07
MD5: 54e1c28014dd9d7b9a923c86d413be32 SHA-1: 3858abb564a2fba925bdc76fe370cf664bc19c63 SHA-256: 11419a2996dd69a483cc7f165e4805ade12cb4cf21194fe93778180685811603
126 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment T1204.002 Malicious Link

The PDF file was flagged as malicious by ML classifiers and ClamAV, indicating a high likelihood of malicious intent. The presence of a link farm on disposable hosting, combined with numerous embedded URLs, suggests a phishing or credential harvesting campaign. The document body contains garbled text, likely due to obfuscation or improper rendering, but the overall structure and heuristic firings point towards a malicious PDF designed to redirect users to potentially harmful websites.

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 http://www.pbttphtk.gov.my/sites/default/files/webform/kafavepovimurajubek.pdf In PDF document text
    • https://www.mothercare.ro/sites/default/files/webform/resumes/sojivezogi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://extranet.blanchisserie-toulousaine-de-sante.com/sites/extranet.blanchisserie-toulousaine-de-sante.com/files/documents/justificatifs/goxara.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.mothercare.ro/sites/default/files/webform/resumes/28941778760.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.pharoxglobal.com/sites/default/files/webform/zomufajiwadusepa.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://portal-mysigma.com/system/files/student-proof/pifudolaloxafedotodela.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ambrose.edu/sites/default/files/webform/46846662681.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.a1touchsolution.nl/sites/default/files/87400145234.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://oaklandchildcare.org/sites/default/files/webform/ligexupasofobepis.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://vectorcorp.net/sites/default/files/webform/resume/sabaw.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/Uplcv/~3/FevRqgeaUVY/uplcv?utm_term=zippo+insert+date+codesPDF link annotation
    • https://printandmail.princeton.edu/system/files/webform/42849177422.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.ice.cam.ac.uk/sites/www.ice.cam.ac.uk/files/webform/wosevojowavinojefe.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://lib.asu.edu/system/files/webform/nexeginexepor.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_off00010031.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x10031 4992 bytes
SHA-256: 5581a98e9f905e53b7347b26d03d502259876508e56b661e2f5a1ac915adb992
font_01_sfnt_off0001113b.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x1113B 11232 bytes
SHA-256: de48edf16f445b029562072247fa06ee8f26bf8376ba2765b3c2fa34b578ad29