Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 1dd2c95e28d1da82…

MALICIOUS

PDF

68.4 KB Created: 2021-04-19 14:04:09 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7) First seen: 2021-05-29
MD5: 7ce623e4bc388a40536a569393235aa4 SHA-1: d987039da99e23c098bb2fc51c5fa87af6e0092c SHA-256: 1dd2c95e28d1da82236b5498b86440c62e8678cc7a8cc075c381593810bcaf61
126 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment T1204.002 Malicious Link

The PDF file was flagged by a machine learning classifier and ClamAV as malicious, specifically as a phishing trojan. It contains a large number of embedded URLs, many of which point to disposable domains and are structured as link farms, indicating a phishing or malicious redirection attempt. The document body, though heavily obfuscated, appears to contain a title related to the Navajo name, likely a lure.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9997

Heuristics 5

  • ClamAV: Pdf.Phishing.Trojan-d2528dad23a95d95-d2528dad23a95d95-10044376-0 critical CLAMAV_DETECTION
    ClamAV detected this file as malware: Pdf.Phishing.Trojan-d2528dad23a95d95-d2528dad23a95d95-10044376-0
  • 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 http://www.pacificsportfraservalley.com/sites/default/files/webform/joxelivoresilawefuxeli.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://oaklandchildcare.org/sites/default/files/webform/70037852461.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.sumnercountyhospital.org/sites/default/files/webform/vetasitumuwogemukuruv.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://europa-ts.ru/sites/default/files/webform/6529842099.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.jwico.com/sites/default/files/webform/vuvosiritixulufanili.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://oaklandchildcare.org/sites/default/files/webform/65810703597.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://russian-ice-spb.ru/sites/default/files/webform/files/69309865186.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://oaklandchildcare.org/sites/default/files/webform/26688185713.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.osgeurope.com/sites/osg-corporate.dev/files/webform/kanuvanirarotugawabu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://russian-ice-spb.ru/sites/default/files/webform/files/zatepatepekaberemosigedix.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.a1touchsolution.nl/sites/default/files/35095474677.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.mainephilanthropy.org/sites/default/files/49101071505.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/skout/mBVl/~3/BkSY9tpko7c/uplcv?utm_term=how+did+the+navajo+get+their+namePDF 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_off0000d088.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xD088 5216 bytes
SHA-256: 4b8e7136ea519c0ff5123a24b2223d8f5e501f8b303b720fa09a129636f06d7c
font_01_sfnt_off0000e236.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xE236 10132 bytes
SHA-256: 5fd183391e6ff406eeb02a11bdf91bb6b2d6d163243879b756b199686ee1c705