Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 24bbd6fefa87cc49…

MALICIOUS

PDF

63.7 KB Created: 2021-04-27 06:21:21 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7) First seen: 2021-09-18
MD5: 2311112b4b5ee07b11e21fe2ed9e9b71 SHA-1: f73c89bb8f1ca5d4328b7a6ea379a324d1f6a03a SHA-256: 24bbd6fefa87cc49ed5c0c4de2c33bc9a3b496e3efaeba6458622b0ca7da64d2
124 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF was flagged by ML and ClamAV as malicious, with heuristics indicating it functions as a link farm. While the document body is heavily obfuscated, the presence of numerous external URIs and the PDF_SEO_DISPOSABLE_LINK_FARM heuristic strongly suggest a phishing or malware distribution attempt. No scripts were extracted, but the overall structure points to a malicious document designed to redirect users to potentially harmful content.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9111

Heuristics 4

  • 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
  • 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.natsihwa.org.au/sites/default/files/webform/bukitonixoravutewoluba.pdf In PDF document text
    • https://www.jwico.com/sites/default/files/webform/monufugabezexi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ambrose.edu/sites/default/files/webform/sovurusogizafubeb.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.ofalloncasting.com/sites/default/files/webform/wibojamivumararevede.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.enwidth.com/sites/default/files/webform/resumes/palepipob.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.dgs-interparts.be/sites/default/files/jinez.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.dgs-interparts.be/sites/default/files/41094691834.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://vectorcorp.net/sites/default/files/webform/resume/sowasipaxezok.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ambrose.edu/sites/default/files/webform/28961662769.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.a1touchsolution.nl/sites/default/files/43963154407.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.mothercare.ro/sites/default/files/webform/resumes/49428740932.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.woonsocketri.org/system/temporary/webform/kebadewanizokodijixupid.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.sumnercountyhospital.org/sites/default/files/webform/xubapubawaral.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/cv9VXjIrmdE/uplcv?utm_term=samsung+scx-3405w+user+guidePDF link annotation
    • https://www.healthdata.org/sites/default/files/resumes/mevupuxapiledowitire.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://printandmail.princeton.edu/system/files/webform/fasulegok.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.vub.be/sites/vub/files/webform/ludazerubadariwevulefaxu.pdfIn 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_off0000c4dc.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xC4DC 6040 bytes
SHA-256: d16ef378506d37e1878733aa3f5b1a21d9d8fe5565e373e8dbb2433c595327d2
font_01_sfnt_off0000d979.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xD979 14556 bytes
SHA-256: 856466d0c5a41bf17116b0b08e10c8a9bb961a0f00339e93c62d62d7768640bb