Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 1ee9339b7f970e28…

MALICIOUS

PDF

65.7 KB Created: 2021-04-27 06:18:37 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7) First seen: 2021-05-26
MD5: 68dc469ec95f514a39d3d21d0fb4b553 SHA-1: 0b23be66d3c29ab93d676eb7365158b1bf441a59 SHA-256: 1ee9339b7f970e2848a51e973fc1acb6f6e632944e2a81b3ad07d9ae23160c27
126 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF file was flagged by ML classifiers and ClamAV as malicious, indicating a high likelihood of malicious intent. The presence of numerous external URIs, many pointing to potentially disposable domains, suggests a link farm or phishing lure. Although no scripts were explicitly extracted, the PDF structure and heuristic firings point towards an attempt to redirect users to malicious sites, likely for phishing or malware delivery.

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 http://pilgrimland.com/sites/default/files/webform/resume-uploads/40494538869.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://www.grotekeukens.be/sites/default/files/webform/gmawards2018/dufadurelabakugozuku.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://architecturaldesigninc.com/sites/default/files/vudezuluxi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://cicatsalud.com/html/sites/default/files/webform/buvonajevomowetizebijix.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.pacificsportfraservalley.com/sites/default/files/webform/12938533755.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.a1touchsolution.nl/sites/default/files/64517041799.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/~3/3CAf4wW3hvY/uplcv?utm_term=how+to+program+charter+remote+to+sanyo+tvPDF link annotation
    • https://drones.princeton.edu/system/files/webform/janewif.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ec.europa.eu/eip/agriculture/sites/default/files/webform/5272012193.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://community.princeton.edu/system/files/webform/wijudabopijobomoxusosul.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://minorsoncampus.princeton.edu/system/files/webform/97035559296.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_off0000c610.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xC610 5528 bytes
SHA-256: 1bdd1b995d8f7e5dba98088108b1d18f449a7c6b807ee7cf14f7c7a9ba90d3eb
font_01_sfnt_off0000d8cf.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xD8CF 9820 bytes
SHA-256: f0ccafee031e86f03446fed18f09d2f46b0eff873e75a6f400c92991c2afb086

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