Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 1d0b9ec137201fde…

MALICIOUS

PDF

67.2 KB Created: 2021-04-08 21:17:17 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7) First seen: 2021-05-26
MD5: b5a612853f287c1b6ce150b51d2bd9a4 SHA-1: eb6855efc21b8178eac2ab07fb45071624bf00e3 SHA-256: 1d0b9ec137201fdef17b055de4f8af3423d9744f3413b93f15f85a69a68c2299
126 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment T1203 Exploitation for Client Execution

The file is a PDF document that was flagged by a machine learning classifier and ClamAV as malicious, specifically as a phishing trojan. It contains numerous embedded URLs, many of which point to seemingly benign domains but are likely part of a link farm designed to obscure the true malicious intent. The document body is heavily obfuscated, preventing a clear understanding of its direct purpose beyond the lure of a 'mapa ciclorutas bogota pdf'.

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.osgeurope.com/sites/osg-corporate.dev/files/webform/povufukawonafano.pdf In PDF document text
    • https://www.natsihwa.org.au/sites/default/files/webform/tuwagamutavuvefofufeniz.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.grotekeukens.be/sites/default/files/webform/gmawards2018/45910982832.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://spotlight-sites.com/sites/default/files/webform/wokasonexigugeb.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://aboss.by/sites/default/files/webform/12132802610.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.jwico.com/sites/default/files/webform/koxajupenukolipidawikopi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.mothercare.ro/sites/default/files/webform/resumes/susumijifiwef.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.mainephilanthropy.org/sites/default/files/wimatetomowitiki.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://cicatsalud.com/html/sites/default/files/webform/59286961246.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/FevRqgeaUVY/uplcv?utm_term=mapa+ciclorutas+bogota+pdfPDF link annotation
    • https://lib.asu.edu/system/files/webform/nexeginexepor.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://community.princeton.edu/system/files/webform/40347257249.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://minorsoncampus.princeton.edu/system/files/webform/fujixedapilevunagujos.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.healthdata.org/sites/default/files/resumes/18848190838.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_off0000c91c.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xC91C 5468 bytes
SHA-256: 9a05e21f7eaa1fd1fabee2ba8562adc5fc90acbc36b8bc74a0aa74df51040847
font_01_sfnt_off0000dbc7.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xDBC7 10784 bytes
SHA-256: 9aa864cd8dee381f124888740a794c11154a15e27c6824911feee6405688f1a5