Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 221184766841b61e…

MALICIOUS

PDF

70.4 KB Created: 2021-04-11 12:33:57 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7) First seen: 2021-05-29
MD5: 595e99ff1a4d3ee756690b30d1dfd09f SHA-1: e657a23de46541503ec35ae3f822f893eb6051cb SHA-256: 221184766841b61e1e7ae546895c8458a82302dfcb877ffcc7e36a5addb80fc5
126 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF file was flagged by multiple heuristics, including a critical ClamAV detection and an ML classifier indicating maliciousness. The PDF_SEO_DISPOSABLE_LINK_FARM heuristic suggests the document is a link farm designed to distribute traffic to multiple domains. While no scripts were explicitly extracted, the presence of embedded URLs and the nature of the heuristics point towards a phishing or malware distribution attempt.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9997

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.uts.cw/sites/default/files/webform/96040264728.pdf In PDF document text
    • https://www.visitsavannah.com/sites/default/files/webform/fukixuliwidopisoduzurapi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.enwidth.com/sites/default/files/webform/resumes/fudigebifofonixetizitalu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.ofalloncasting.com/sites/default/files/webform/dapajinosez.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.viachristi.org/sites/default/files/webform/89070061484.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://extranet.blanchisserie-toulousaine-de-sante.com/sites/extranet.blanchisserie-toulousaine-de-sante.com/files/documents/justificatifs/niroxopewesanusogub.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://extranet.blanchisserie-toulousaine-de-sante.com/sites/extranet.blanchisserie-toulousaine-de-sante.com/files/documents/justificatifs/bugoxugokerudanetisene.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://russian-ice-spb.ru/sites/default/files/webform/files/32020734574.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/BvfzZFkJO3s/uplcv?utm_term=anais+nin+little+birds+read+onlinePDF link annotation
    • https://www.vub.be/sites/vub/files/webform/rifavuzido.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.healthdata.org/sites/default/files/resumes/68382108709.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://drones.princeton.edu/system/files/webform/janewif.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://gradfutures.princeton.edu/system/files/webform/16157352895.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://printandmail.princeton.edu/system/files/webform/mizol.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_off0000d3e7.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xD3E7 4948 bytes
SHA-256: 9a0f37af5eb9d12ce39df232414c520a8a7cc9f7fd46da9dc5f4038cdc7ca7ed
font_01_sfnt_off0000e4be.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xE4BE 11248 bytes
SHA-256: cb48f0941fb565779723791743162bb57f72fd2f35eb2c3aafa66ef12e4b890b

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