Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 29b8254b9de5ce4e…

MALICIOUS

PDF

68.8 KB Created: 2021-04-09 18:26:15 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7) First seen: 2021-05-22
MD5: 7fb891004824d6b1bb1c62f0d2e579ac SHA-1: 3b464554aea66d1ef1b6fb99d37c9c171aab1ced SHA-256: 29b8254b9de5ce4edf0c4ce81de3904c1bbfc626dfcfb893a2a3a594549cb7a9
126 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF contains numerous embedded links, many pointing to potentially malicious domains, suggesting a phishing or malware distribution attempt. The ML classifier and ClamAV detection strongly indicate malicious intent. Although no scripts were explicitly extracted, the PDF structure and embedded links are indicative of a malicious document designed to redirect users to harmful content.

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.jsif.org/sites/default/files/webform/94808830073.pdf In PDF document text
    • https://www.a1touchsolution.nl/sites/default/files/95216779236.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.osgeurope.com/sites/osg-corporate.dev/files/webform/80982398497.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.mainephilanthropy.org/sites/default/files/lipedoketuparukol.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.mainephilanthropy.org/sites/default/files/5296457674.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.mothercare.ro/sites/default/files/webform/resumes/xigidaz.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.grotekeukens.be/sites/default/files/webform/gmawards2018/dakatiwilu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.blplegal.com/sites/default/files/webform/julojulixizegusu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ambrose.edu/sites/default/files/webform/28961662769.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.grotekeukens.be/sites/default/files/webform/gmawards2018/30150103061.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.telluridescience.org/sites/default/files/tstc-applications/dadesiludidogujuta.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.telluridescience.org/sites/default/files/tstc-applications/nuwirofu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.termis.org/system/files/webform/dexifivoneput.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.enwidth.com/sites/default/files/webform/resumes/89382212171.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.uts.cw/sites/default/files/webform/bofuwidesuxugebogaxa.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/skout/mBVl/~3/PmAiG5ZyT-k/uplcv?utm_term=manhattan+5+lb+gre+pdfPDF link annotation
    • https://gradfutures.princeton.edu/system/files/webform/25860956451.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_off0000ce2a.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xCE2A 5396 bytes
SHA-256: 6b0dda3df9da9d6288692d3df3d760681dce1edc7e259735e45a4c57f9cf35f5
font_01_sfnt_off0000e086.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xE086 11448 bytes
SHA-256: a12c674acb27ef8be64abf80ad47b60f230acb774509e519cea1072711a0f519

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