Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 2649290b6960cff2…

MALICIOUS

PDF

76.0 KB Created: 2021-04-25 18:10:58 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7) First seen: 2021-11-21
MD5: c9ddd6840b0f520d5881c886fc53c003 SHA-1: ecd646f0421385716ba989adbfb12bf5b84a8dab SHA-256: 2649290b6960cff26bd0aa49c644c748fd52e890186bac90ff9188e6cbc10ffa
126 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF was flagged by ML classifiers and ClamAV as malicious, indicating a high likelihood of malicious intent. The heuristic 'PDF_SEO_DISPOSABLE_LINK_FARM' suggests the document is designed to host numerous links, pointing towards a phishing or malware distribution scheme. While no scripts were explicitly extracted, the PDF structure and embedded URLs indicate it's likely part of a phishing campaign, potentially using embedded JavaScript to facilitate the redirection.

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 http://klm3fg.grhosting.cz/sites/default/files/webform/files/22206840813.pdf In PDF document text
    • https://ambrose.edu/sites/default/files/webform/59680287402.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ambrose.edu/sites/default/files/webform/natogaj.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.jsif.org/sites/default/files/webform/rijuluzevowogadabiwi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ambrose.edu/sites/default/files/webform/71048230710.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://klm3fg.grhosting.cz/sites/default/files/webform/files/zavemazawutojene.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://architecturaldesigninc.com/sites/default/files/72694480293.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.blplegal.com/sites/default/files/webform/32112495638.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://natsihwa.org.au/sites/default/files/webform/kixeje.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.sumnercountyhospital.org/sites/default/files/webform/27017481005.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.termis.org/system/files/webform/manejuwavujegajejumoxak.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.jwico.com/sites/default/files/webform/23528315583.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.guninetwork.org/system/files/webform/heirri_proposals/80098342864.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://vectorcorp.net/sites/default/files/webform/resume/wogudodijanaferewinige.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.muttypawsacademy.com/sites/default/files/webform/vaccines/30199048500.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://oaklandchildcare.org/sites/default/files/webform/85278691340.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/Om9ozkHLxGw/uplcv?utm_term=castle+on+the+hill+lyrics+ed+sheeranPDF link annotation
    • 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_off0000efb9.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xEFB9 5032 bytes
SHA-256: 49942ff37f307ad06d6d2c02291226b897e660b823ea7d21038d0b97abdecab1
font_01_sfnt_off000100ce.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x100CE 10160 bytes
SHA-256: d33a57c24c3af4de0bb042351941994a256ec5c8193899e060baa86e47bc83af

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