Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 171f84228da34722…

MALICIOUS

PDF

69.3 KB Created: 2021-04-10 14:23:12 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7) First seen: 2021-05-29
MD5: 5979c6e018532496e9a5f73a85a08d87 SHA-1: d97efa33dfde7b2b97fee769e50397a3fc10e196 SHA-256: 171f84228da347221a243fe4b00f1e039a6c1688ab7797e19a09f26c89ccf894
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 disposable domains and are structured as a link farm, a common tactic for phishing or distributing malware. The ML classifier and ClamAV detection strongly indicate malicious intent. While no scripts were directly extracted, the PDF structure and embedded URIs suggest it's designed to redirect users to potentially harmful 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.jwico.com/sites/default/files/webform/xojisipet.pdf In PDF document text
    • https://extranet.blanchisserie-toulousaine-de-sante.com/sites/extranet.blanchisserie-toulousaine-de-sante.com/files/documents/justificatifs/bugoxugokerudanetisene.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.mainephilanthropy.org/sites/default/files/lipedoketuparukol.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.natsihwa.org.au/sites/default/files/webform/tesogiruzan.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://grossenbacher.co.nz/en/system/files/avoidance-training-certificates/xetomaroronep.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.ofalloncasting.com/sites/default/files/webform/gegemapoxazokex.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ambrose.edu/sites/default/files/webform/fenalop.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.visitsavannah.com/sites/default/files/webform/90994069376.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://vectorcorp.net/sites/default/files/webform/resume/dufovomajaxavekasodulep.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://cicatsalud.com/html/sites/default/files/webform/99368311749.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.uts.cw/sites/default/files/webform/nufideleze.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/In PDF document text
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/typedesigners.htmlIn PDF document text
    • http://www.daltonmaag.com/In PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Uplcv/~3/BvfzZFkJO3s/uplcv?utm_term=respuestas+100+pics+los+logotipos+alPDF link annotation
    • https://ec.europa.eu/eip/agriculture/sites/default/files/webform/66140853426.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ec.europa.eu/eip/agriculture/sites/default/files/webform/56905881998.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://community.princeton.edu/system/files/webform/tujuxegagisezemesolut.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://drones.princeton.edu/system/files/webform/dovekilubexuvizufak.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://community.princeton.edu/system/files/webform/luzixuganigofifabeja.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 3

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
font_00_sfnt_off0000c670.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xC670 4984 bytes
SHA-256: 2b9377a6d53bf7198ecdba63f017788eeb74ae36bbdf449cd9cda7b0f247492b
font_01_sfnt_off0000d77c.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xD77C 10020 bytes
SHA-256: 3de8b0021f295b1681a50ae4a82d5d0000e50d90ec4dd1fac001190fa30811b7
font_02_sfnt_off0000f9bf.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF9BF 4324 bytes
SHA-256: 05d2457133b820fa77aa358e30e9acfbad3f04c46ced9a37296d9311117db176