Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 261e4533fc1eed6a…

MALICIOUS

PDF

69.3 KB Created: 2021-04-23 06:15:09 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7) First seen: 2021-06-13
MD5: 16a93d416d90ef5833ccb7e24499d0f3 SHA-1: bb0edf36a785e4ae10a6ac65451f7dfbbad42f0d SHA-256: 261e4533fc1eed6a483df6a980231ebe57760a4a7325cf1234b7566eecf3dda4
124 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF file was detected as malicious by ClamAV and an ML classifier, indicating a high likelihood of malicious intent. The document body, though heavily obfuscated, contains references to 'universal remote 7252 tv codes', suggesting a lure. The presence of numerous external URIs, many pointing to disposable or unknown hosts, further supports a phishing or scam campaign. No scripts were extracted, but the PDF structure itself is indicative of malicious activity.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.8470

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.osgeurope.com/sites/osg-corporate.dev/files/webform/28911573484.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://www.friendlycc.com/sites/default/files/webform/47778491084.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://architecturaldesigninc.com/sites/default/files/masugikiretige.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.muttypawsacademy.com/sites/default/files/webform/vaccines/nojezajewi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ambrose.edu/sites/default/files/webform/21691652676.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://aboss.by/sites/default/files/webform/80384466065.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://aboss.by/sites/default/files/webform/10891008032.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.natsihwa.org.au/sites/default/files/webform/welukugipevodabarovefeweb.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ambrose.edu/sites/default/files/webform/natogaj.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://cicatsalud.com/html/sites/default/files/webform/65000750087.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.blplegal.com/sites/default/files/webform/3097059720.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/PmAiG5ZyT-k/uplcv?utm_term=ge+universal+remote+7252+tv+codesPDF link annotation
    • https://drones.princeton.edu/system/files/webform/xakunowegetudirojevogejiw.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.healthdata.org/sites/default/files/resumes/mevupuxapiledowitire.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://printandmail.princeton.edu/system/files/webform/21250884575.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://lib.asu.edu/system/files/webform/simadovi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://thesanfordschool.asu.edu/sites/default/files/webform/85266863194.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_off0000e33d.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xE33D 5512 bytes
SHA-256: d9f4d1bc3c2863546fe44b1705a67f3e8d7db37605a828885f9efea321a01f4e
font_01_sfnt_off0000f5fa.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF5FA 10436 bytes
SHA-256: 95d3efeaf551c796e380abbbab568bc8fdd58ec8315fd4e0e0a98ff67526e27f