Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 11787c80436929c3…

MALICIOUS

PDF

65.6 KB Created: 2021-04-08 18:29:22 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7) First seen: 2021-05-26
MD5: d22e1a4052f00aea1e9784a3c68b58e0 SHA-1: 2047b34a1c0abefb4b542b57580b16f43f1042de SHA-256: 11787c80436929c394aa32beb14983a2c573f10e396ceea3f1f942b057912583
126 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF was flagged by ML classifiers and ClamAV as malicious, indicating a phishing or trojan threat. It contains numerous embedded URLs, many pointing to disposable domains, suggesting a link farm or redirection mechanism. The presence of PDF-specific heuristics like PDF_SEO_DISPOSABLE_LINK_FARM further supports its malicious intent, likely to trick users into downloading further payloads or visiting malicious sites.

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://www.osgeurope.com/sites/osg-corporate.dev/files/webform/35757612566.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://www.muttypawsacademy.com/sites/default/files/webform/vaccines/lozege.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://aboss.by/sites/default/files/webform/10891008032.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.osgeurope.com/sites/osg-corporate.dev/files/webform/tafunowusovuna.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ambrose.edu/sites/default/files/webform/20598750849.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.enwidth.com/sites/default/files/webform/resumes/58607877977.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://klm3fg.grhosting.cz/sites/default/files/webform/files/30253637425.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.pbttphtk.gov.my/sites/default/files/webform/xaduxiwipel.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.woonsocketri.org/system/temporary/webform/makepepatamizozixijefawop.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://pilgrimland.com/sites/default/files/webform/resume-uploads/64296936159.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ambrose.edu/sites/default/files/webform/48232920683.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.muttypawsacademy.com/sites/default/files/webform/vaccines/nojezajewi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://extranet.blanchisserie-toulousaine-de-sante.com/sites/extranet.blanchisserie-toulousaine-de-sante.com/files/documents/justificatifs/6659556688.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/cv9VXjIrmdE/uplcv?utm_term=beatles+chords+pdf+downloadPDF link annotation
    • https://printandmail.princeton.edu/system/files/webform/21250884575.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://thesanfordschool.asu.edu/sites/default/files/webform/xumigisapiwonatidokababup.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_off0000c144.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xC144 5384 bytes
SHA-256: 2e81175c6619ddfcbaf885f3c64606febbbb83108eeda1dbee379afb43b177e7
font_01_sfnt_off0000d39f.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xD39F 10640 bytes
SHA-256: 47a34e3bb173d2d59b31a9a560d8b3a5a94df78424f9d95385c1ef168e421011