Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 1b2244d6da7e06aa…

MALICIOUS

PDF

93.5 KB Created: 2021-04-20 00:04:29 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7) First seen: 2021-05-26
MD5: a2774e1d2c01d53004c090460989bfb0 SHA-1: 558bd9fc0d84bc85304df2c1d469da3e75bc7f57 SHA-256: 1b2244d6da7e06aa244fd81186dcdae32809c4cb3f1e9bbda392919e8875eb47
66 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The ML classifier strongly indicated maliciousness, and the PDF contains numerous embedded URLs, many pointing to potentially disposable domains. The heuristic 'PDF_SEO_DISPOSABLE_LINK_FARM' suggests a tactic to obscure malicious links or distribute them widely. While no scripts were directly extracted, the structure and URL patterns are consistent with a phishing or malware distribution lure.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9997

Heuristics 4

  • 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.mothercare.ro/sites/default/files/webform/resumes/tizagoge.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://cicatsalud.com/html/sites/default/files/webform/99284441703.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://klm3fg.grhosting.cz/sites/default/files/webform/files/5308316073.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://web.liderpapel.com/sites/default/files/webform/dojoxopanikofogenag.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://klm3fg.grhosting.cz/sites/default/files/webform/files/tekuxegejarikuferibo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.natsihwa.org.au/sites/default/files/webform/xexazud.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.uts.cw/sites/default/files/webform/vogoledifekotukedadawen.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.cdcplumbing.com/sites/default/files/webform/contact-us/sawifujemenolezaf.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://europa-ts.ru/sites/default/files/webform/81905598419.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://cicatsalud.com/html/sites/default/files/webform/bulurifabisiwotubavigivos.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.pbttphtk.gov.my/sites/default/files/webform/33269367294.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.jwico.com/sites/default/files/webform/minokoniniwige.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.jwico.com/sites/default/files/webform/71926652616.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ambrose.edu/sites/default/files/webform/21691652676.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.pbttphtk.gov.my/sites/default/files/webform/kafavepovimurajubek.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://cicatsalud.com/html/sites/default/files/webform/90703453713.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.dgs-interparts.be/sites/default/files/68462010443.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.newburghgroup.com/sites/default/files/webform/resumes/falaburisidibiwad.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/PmAiG5ZyT-k/uplcv?utm_term=the+entertainer+table+and+chairsPDF link annotation
    • 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_off00013026.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x13026 5116 bytes
SHA-256: 2dcdbf01e5b5dcb69c2a5e03689d5aded6e08ee677e8c8c0ac2744ccacee03b1
font_01_sfnt_off00014178.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x14178 10904 bytes
SHA-256: 3c910d566554f39ca831879c23d651e65cdb6d601e211bd520b8d7648c4d2f63