Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 13c46c8379d98a81…

MALICIOUS

PDF

72.9 KB Created: 2021-04-14 19:45:38 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7) First seen: 2021-05-29
MD5: ccf644ca22be587b81f6837a2c73e776 SHA-1: 89880bfad2ac99054ebffff595ce2d8513dee901 SHA-256: 13c46c8379d98a81e86b6974fbf79308f609f0d8b4fbdbbac07f21d9773d2404
126 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF document contains numerous embedded URLs, many of which point to suspicious PDF files hosted on various domains. The ML classifier and ClamAV detection strongly indicate malicious intent, likely for phishing or distributing further malware. The document body, though heavily obfuscated, suggests a lure related to a 'Sony flyback transformer datasheet', which is likely a pretext to encourage users to click the embedded links.

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 https://www.enwidth.com/sites/default/files/webform/resumes/zozagosetimof.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://www.pbttphtk.gov.my/sites/default/files/webform/kafavepovimurajubek.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.dgs-interparts.be/sites/default/files/41094691834.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.pharoxglobal.com/sites/default/files/webform/7322176875.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.friendlycc.com/sites/default/files/webform/kilolegejesap.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.pacificsportfraservalley.com/sites/default/files/webform/pulipalukegibivep.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.a1touchsolution.nl/sites/default/files/87400145234.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.uts.cw/sites/default/files/webform/nukuromenalifaru.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.jwico.com/sites/default/files/webform/71926652616.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ambrose.edu/sites/default/files/webform/26147793628.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://klm3fg.grhosting.cz/sites/default/files/webform/files/15194676649.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.afscme65.org/system/files/webform/52844377902.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/~3/1xuhb7AK25c/uplcv?utm_term=sony+flyback+transformer+datasheetPDF link annotation
    • https://www.healthdata.org/sites/default/files/resumes/mevupuxapiledowitire.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://umatter.princeton.edu/system/files/webform/requests/roporopapoviz.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_off0000d8c4.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xD8C4 5672 bytes
SHA-256: 78056b66f1c2522bf93ae728c3a7c7ae323f09ca9bcca8e2d4878a25734db743
font_01_sfnt_off0000ebf3.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xEBF3 13592 bytes
SHA-256: 86c68e7403f2f6d9d27f2d47671144c0f2ef320031a404e462742e3a0b3a034b