Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 291c60d49db8808b…

MALICIOUS

PDF

76.7 KB Created: 2021-04-15 03:55:02 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7) First seen: 2021-05-29
MD5: ed0f2528031d592586c5d12391919da3 SHA-1: 2976f79c42155dba3ff32ef5cd56e2ab3457aae2 SHA-256: 291c60d49db8808be93c1f4f7d5cf5532c47fd4c7dcbc06e102a2e30dd0afd7b
126 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF was flagged by multiple heuristics, including a high-confidence ML classifier and ClamAV detection, indicating malicious intent. The PDF contains numerous embedded URLs, many of which point to potentially compromised or disposable domains, suggesting a link farm or phishing lure. The presence of PDF_SEO_DISPOSABLE_LINK_FARM heuristic further supports this, indicating the document is designed to redirect users to external sites.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9998

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 http://pilgrimland.com/sites/default/files/webform/resume-uploads/61975266633.pdf In PDF document text
    • https://extranet.blanchisserie-toulousaine-de-sante.com/sites/extranet.blanchisserie-toulousaine-de-sante.com/files/documents/justificatifs/29410319198.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ambrose.edu/sites/default/files/webform/9979090083.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://grossenbacher.co.nz/en/system/files/avoidance-training-certificates/basolidigululaba.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://cicatsalud.com/html/sites/default/files/webform/32041770382.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ambrose.edu/sites/default/files/webform/99544266771.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://natsihwa.org.au/sites/default/files/webform/17015803.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.osgeurope.com/sites/osg-corporate.dev/files/webform/tajiwugebewozebukak.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://extranet.blanchisserie-toulousaine-de-sante.com/sites/extranet.blanchisserie-toulousaine-de-sante.com/files/documents/justificatifs/6659556688.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/In PDF document text
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/typedesigners.htmlIn PDF document text
    • http://www.daltonmaag.com/In PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/skout/mBVl/~3/1KS0DP0cxss/uplcv?utm_term=i+can%2527t+make+u+love+me+piano+chordsPDF link annotation
    • https://lib.asu.edu/system/files/webform/sikukuditizituxabisezopel.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://community.princeton.edu/system/files/webform/luzixuganigofifabeja.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_off0000e131.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xE131 5288 bytes
SHA-256: b9d8a65cfaf96266ce4945ef1d25f846cabc6c42c5952b9d4a453e7d86c680c3
font_01_sfnt_off0000f2f9.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF2F9 11032 bytes
SHA-256: 44e3e62ba1b0a24faabe1d83ec3c3ef6b0fb666683e4f2325b454600950e3a41
font_02_sfnt_off00011813.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x11813 4324 bytes
SHA-256: 9f355172d696dda274cac500966718f112ce76951f19577ac4888987ea6471b2