Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 2595ad4392f9b840…

MALICIOUS

PDF

80.6 KB Created: 2021-04-12 07:56:54 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7) First seen: 2021-05-26
MD5: 941eb44785fde05fa524328f36230a65 SHA-1: 9891946d1b198c25237444e5495dc81d8ddb385c SHA-256: 2595ad4392f9b84095f62a5e8b213b806baed6dc5f058801761815ec48faef3e
126 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF contains numerous embedded URLs pointing to external resources, with one heuristic specifically identifying it as a link farm on disposable hosting. The ML classifier and ClamAV detection strongly indicate malicious intent, likely for phishing or malware delivery. Although no scripts were explicitly extracted, the PDF structure and embedded links suggest an attempt to redirect the user to a malicious site.

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.woonsocketri.org/system/temporary/webform/bogobovimefegaf.pdf In PDF document text
    • https://grossenbacher.co.nz/en/system/files/avoidance-training-certificates/tojawi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.mothercare.ro/sites/default/files/webform/resumes/tawapiseligimagawawujimo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://spotlight-sites.com/sites/default/files/webform/93789740410.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://europa-ts.ru/sites/default/files/webform/6529842099.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.dgs-interparts.be/sites/default/files/60165950635.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://cicatsalud.com/html/sites/default/files/webform/24974410021.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.muttypawsacademy.com/sites/default/files/webform/vaccines/40041164747.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://web.liderpapel.com/sites/default/files/webform/wavunivuzabanovomid.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.afscme65.org/system/files/webform/tikat.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ambrose.edu/sites/default/files/webform/durigoxilakomisi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.friendlycc.com/sites/default/files/webform/29579557159.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/YTWXjIUwRh0/uplcv?utm_term=black+navy+war+2+hackedPDF link annotation
    • https://community.princeton.edu/system/files/webform/42655509772.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://thesanfordschool.asu.edu/sites/default/files/webform/43157208480.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://community.princeton.edu/system/files/webform/putirufulexuxibo.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 3

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
font_00_sfnt_off0000ed9c.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xED9C 4536 bytes
SHA-256: 6a5594c467895efd076cdf124d06b1156ce6a6b40190c22cf0e6f06eec9a69c0
font_01_sfnt_off0000fd4f.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xFD4F 5348 bytes
SHA-256: cefcbe8f76cae53974ffecff08801376d446d851c89cb346fe483a1de2844582
font_02_sfnt_off00010f98.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x10F98 11076 bytes
SHA-256: 4b3e94829bde8e946ac3d99d627f5854e7c00ad3e5215a06ab1199004ba25135