Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 25a5715b6c28b9d8…

MALICIOUS

PDF

67.9 KB Created: 2021-04-20 07:35:42 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7) First seen: 2021-05-29
MD5: 5750bb1450fd4c6b1f50ca49831d34df SHA-1: c9877a5b24767f4bfe53536837c4b5a32d7d284e SHA-256: 25a5715b6c28b9d8253598d79ec499aaf8b04b06f4d63cb2ff6f7d2358fa16b4
126 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF file was detected as malicious by ML classifiers and ClamAV, indicating a phishing or trojan threat. It contains numerous embedded URLs, many pointing to suspicious domains, suggesting an attempt to redirect users to malicious sites. The document body, though heavily corrupted, appears to be a lure related to air conditioner brands, likely to trick users into clicking on the embedded links.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9995

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 https://www.enwidth.com/sites/default/files/webform/resumes/paxifufal.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://klm3fg.grhosting.cz/sites/default/files/webform/files/wajuso.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.dgs-interparts.be/sites/default/files/41094691834.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://cicatsalud.com/html/sites/default/files/webform/32041770382.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://klm3fg.grhosting.cz/sites/default/files/webform/files/40110328039.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.grotekeukens.be/sites/default/files/webform/gmawards2018/sakobonomoduriv.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://oaklandchildcare.org/sites/default/files/webform/veser.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://portal-mysigma.com/system/files/student-proof/tevesifisota.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=what+is+the+most+reliable+window+air+conditioner+brandPDF link annotation
    • https://www.vub.be/sites/vub/files/webform/siwujomizawafoxewop.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://gradfutures.princeton.edu/system/files/webform/buviboxakutovovujigobimis.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_off0000cd0d.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xCD0D 5424 bytes
SHA-256: 0380b7106fa719db528dba14534115f92460f3642a8cd00c4da8330a0d016dea
font_01_sfnt_off0000df67.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xDF67 10288 bytes
SHA-256: 4fdf29382d72af063deaf142b335038f9e944916fdd10ad1b74b10d176302356