Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 184fd94bd3847ce4…

MALICIOUS

PDF

69.1 KB Created: 2021-04-21 11:14:20 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7) First seen: 2021-05-29
MD5: c18c152f87f63624e64b6c3f1a58cd47 SHA-1: cc00b219d1beb50955ee6bcb447b3cb4d212eb44 SHA-256: 184fd94bd3847ce43a2d578b78d18a5c1d0c4e8286131658994ae577a475d4af
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 potentially malicious domains, suggesting a phishing or link-farming attack. The ML classifier and ClamAV detection strongly indicate malicious intent. While no scripts were explicitly extracted, the PDF structure and embedded links are indicative of an attempt to redirect users to malicious content.

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.blplegal.com/sites/default/files/webform/80507347088.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://russian-ice-spb.ru/sites/default/files/webform/files/32020734574.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.guninetwork.org/system/files/webform/heirri_proposals/wozat.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://cicatsalud.com/html/sites/default/files/webform/90703453713.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.guninetwork.org/system/files/webform/heirri_proposals/74543186253.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ambrose.edu/sites/default/files/webform/11364316539.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://architecturaldesigninc.com/sites/default/files/masugikiretige.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://cicatsalud.com/html/sites/default/files/webform/jedirokadezat.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.dgs-interparts.be/sites/default/files/57515461030.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.friendlycc.com/sites/default/files/webform/topevonizudurazot.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.termis.org/system/files/webform/67198091979.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/Uplcv/~3/BvfzZFkJO3s/uplcv?utm_term=towards+understanding+islam+in+urduPDF link annotation
    • https://www.ice.cam.ac.uk/sites/www.ice.cam.ac.uk/files/webform/68876097481.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_off0000d258.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xD258 5188 bytes
SHA-256: b474876240d89b10d2a84b8b106048b556a37b8d9e2c6720fbc9c726e6356d01
font_01_sfnt_off0000e3fa.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xE3FA 10396 bytes
SHA-256: 5a683ce71c7a18bdb5d424077bad1469bc3365160c9b3c8dab80eb37f4d83c2d