Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 1425250db7e2bbb2…

MALICIOUS

PDF

76.6 KB Created: 2021-04-18 14:08:41 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7) First seen: 2021-10-14
MD5: 56fe4dcaf7c65f090690ab1e170c3337 SHA-1: a5e259e3a26e768e597e355c62324de27b3d4ca1 SHA-256: 1425250db7e2bbb2df3607c84170bafc31a317180fd2c1bb9a3dd52bb7d5a1aa
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 high likelihood of malicious intent. The heuristic 'PDF_SEO_DISPOSABLE_LINK_FARM' suggests the document is designed to host numerous links, likely for phishing or malware distribution. Although no scripts were explicitly extracted, the presence of embedded URLs and the overall structure point towards a phishing or credential harvesting attack.

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.jwico.com/sites/default/files/webform/monufugabezexi.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://pilgrimland.com/sites/default/files/webform/resume-uploads/mikax.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.ofalloncasting.com/sites/default/files/webform/geguridafaj.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.dgs-interparts.be/sites/default/files/55949953827.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.visitsavannah.com/sites/default/files/webform/59391310887.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.sumnercountyhospital.org/sites/default/files/webform/zupusozuxabodes.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.pbttphtk.gov.my/sites/default/files/webform/32056102714.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.mothercare.ro/sites/default/files/webform/resumes/xigidaz.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.pacificsportfraservalley.com/sites/default/files/webform/93322629498.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ambrose.edu/sites/default/files/webform/juremetepatofuf.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://pilgrimland.com/sites/default/files/webform/resume-uploads/69774832497.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/BvfzZFkJO3s/uplcv?utm_term=black+jumping+spider+green+eyesPDF link annotation
    • https://campusrec.princeton.edu/system/files/webform/47045932069.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ubmemeaensoprod.s3.amazonaws.com/ifsec_international/call_for_papers/2021/03/wutiladerotegedubel.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://lib.asu.edu/system/files/webform/simadovi.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_off0000ee71.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xEE71 5684 bytes
SHA-256: 589be67df7c86507107a620563a5be3bbbbc801f81952fbf1f0bcf07a864a5c7
font_01_sfnt_off000101c0.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x101C0 10548 bytes
SHA-256: 52d0e63d0e5915b82414dc4dfe5bea3cc2a95344cf27e4f2d11c99e9a37ef768