Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 149f943f53dc362a…

MALICIOUS

PDF

83.4 KB Created: 2021-04-18 02:46:36 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7) First seen: 2021-05-23
MD5: 50b288d150984a613721721edda7484e SHA-1: b93807add5881fe084e2b962372523998f8bfeec SHA-256: 149f943f53dc362af8ee1f411a3426c339697d33c9e0eaaed1267579ebde63ff
126 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF document is identified as malicious by ML classifiers and ClamAV, with a high heuristic score for being a link farm on disposable hosting. The document body, though heavily obfuscated, appears to be a lure related to 'Walmart hours of operation for holidays'. The numerous embedded URLs, many pointing to unknown or suspicious domains, suggest an attempt to redirect users to malicious content, likely for phishing or malware distribution.

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 http://spotlight-sites.com/sites/default/files/webform/jalipoxelelikepobolid.pdf In PDF document text
    • https://www.dgs-interparts.be/sites/default/files/viwiredozilopuvotudulufez.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.grotekeukens.be/sites/default/files/webform/gmawards2018/98751459569.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://grossenbacher.co.nz/en/system/files/avoidance-training-certificates/xetomaroronep.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://grossenbacher.co.nz/en/system/files/avoidance-training-certificates/13471650610.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.jsif.org/sites/default/files/webform/54003515034.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.osgeurope.com/sites/osg-corporate.dev/files/webform/99469138220.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://cicatsalud.com/html/sites/default/files/webform/mulakipezumaxusilexuvu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.jsif.org/sites/default/files/webform/kedoruxanagavapiwo.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/BkSY9tpko7c/uplcv?utm_term=walmart+hours+of+operation+for+holidaysPDF link annotation
    • https://thesanfordschool.asu.edu/sites/default/files/webform/87767597376.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.vub.be/sites/vub/files/webform/ludazerubadariwevulefaxu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://gradfutures.princeton.edu/system/files/webform/86626084736.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.ice.cam.ac.uk/sites/www.ice.cam.ac.uk/files/webform/tivajojisepizoni.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ec.europa.eu/eip/agriculture/sites/default/files/webform/56905881998.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_off0001053e.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x1053E 5396 bytes
SHA-256: b9c77e449f50955bd67681e3ab3fac034472bf8d2541b45e6cb6d1822d7d7f3d
font_01_sfnt_off00011782.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x11782 12100 bytes
SHA-256: 1579cb4c96750a81348106a5c173dcc50af4c1235172cf2717bbf5cb8a5e4a7a