Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 264a006aa64348ef…

MALICIOUS

PDF

71.8 KB Created: 2021-04-26 04:57:42 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7) First seen: 2021-05-29
MD5: 76b8354b8b5ba8b244e753a7f2ffd41d SHA-1: 46a0bdd9d4835bf599a9d04fc89a0942c87a71c5 SHA-256: 264a006aa64348ef1d882b764cadb5e799b3f91015c9d5577169065ebc5982ad
126 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF document contains numerous embedded links, many of which are hosted on seemingly legitimate websites but point to PDF files, suggesting a link farm or redirection scheme. 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 are indicative of malicious activity, potentially leveraging embedded JavaScript for exploitation.

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.a1touchsolution.nl/sites/default/files/73086307569.pdf In PDF document text
    • https://www.a1touchsolution.nl/sites/default/files/wozupidojenebimovom.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.a1touchsolution.nl/sites/default/files/64517041799.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.natsihwa.org.au/sites/default/files/webform/21073527915.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.dgs-interparts.be/sites/default/files/bipaxuvimul.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://pilgrimland.com/sites/default/files/webform/resume-uploads/pakajumotarowumomudiro.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.mainephilanthropy.org/sites/default/files/30695142459.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.newburghgroup.com/sites/default/files/webform/resumes/mogewewe.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://aboss.by/sites/default/files/webform/10891008032.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.pacificsportfraservalley.com/sites/default/files/webform/zasadavatemomafupe.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://oaklandchildcare.org/sites/default/files/webform/veser.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://cicatsalud.com/html/sites/default/files/webform/jowodudarazobipadumalo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.telluridescience.org/sites/default/files/tstc-applications/dadesiludidogujuta.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://grossenbacher.co.nz/en/system/files/avoidance-training-certificates/13471650610.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.blplegal.com/sites/default/files/webform/8025899801.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/DOqCt-cVA4I/uplcv?utm_term=is+a+flushed+face+a+sign+of+pregnancyPDF link annotation
    • https://ec.europa.eu/eip/agriculture/sites/default/files/webform/72323592377.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://thesanfordschool.asu.edu/sites/default/files/webform/lezedatabamivija.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_off0000daa6.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xDAA6 5456 bytes
SHA-256: 0cff7409ef1b2049dc5fc915e4db941474401498e33c80e33edd5a6f01325772
font_01_sfnt_off0000ed3b.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xED3B 10928 bytes
SHA-256: 81f4211b81cd68e0dab5d3129e35a59ff0ef020c68715d16b09f410f1af08491