Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 19754942d5af3b3d…

MALICIOUS

PDF

67.4 KB Created: 2021-04-20 13:29:14 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7) First seen: 2021-05-26
MD5: 83fb78979d5c095673703f3e3bec86da SHA-1: b53986c71b795abde4151b1fc1beaec90ac286e0 SHA-256: 19754942d5af3b3def55fac6aebb3f820b1da4475e8200aaa7eb9168166033a3
126 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The file was detected as malicious by ClamAV and an ML classifier, indicating a high probability of malicious intent. The PDF contains numerous embedded URLs, many of which are hosted on potentially disposable domains, suggesting a link farm or phishing lure. The heuristic 'PDF_SEO_DISPOSABLE_LINK_FARM' specifically points to this behavior, and the presence of external URIs further supports this. While no scripts were explicitly extracted, the nature of the embedded links and the overall detection suggest it's designed to redirect users to malicious content.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9996

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://aboss.by/sites/default/files/webform/12132802610.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://www.grotekeukens.be/sites/default/files/webform/gmawards2018/sakobonomoduriv.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.pacificsportfraservalley.com/sites/default/files/webform/12938533755.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://natsihwa.org.au/sites/default/files/webform/mufuwujaxerafesa.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.muttypawsacademy.com/sites/default/files/webform/vaccines/89533113822.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.mothercare.ro/sites/default/files/webform/resumes/jevosofotabotasif.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ambrose.edu/sites/default/files/webform/sovurusogizafubeb.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.enwidth.com/sites/default/files/webform/resumes/ralivowu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.jwico.com/sites/default/files/webform/pagijan.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.pharoxglobal.com/sites/default/files/webform/balulata.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=into+the+abyss+movie+trailerPDF link annotation
    • https://lib.asu.edu/system/files/webform/vabomabexajamoja.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_off0000ccd8.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xCCD8 5164 bytes
SHA-256: efb127ec1204b2dd9fe25306794c49a82550cd73f8e67b96c64b2df31b3e8fda
font_01_sfnt_off0000de44.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xDE44 10216 bytes
SHA-256: 2a7d674d201ba2286dde7bc073aed4e2e89a5b24ea1c723e5cf7c64f489a3cc2