Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 2b8084fdd9b5cc72…

MALICIOUS

PDF

87.4 KB Created: 2021-04-26 02:28:26 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7) First seen: 2021-05-29
MD5: a6e08c30c4963b3faceb8b2c1107d3b8 SHA-1: d2d00ab940ddff1b7530b9cf32d7de1ba709291c SHA-256: 2b8084fdd9b5cc72a861a7eab365107a138623526af9c57a3b1ef6b1648cd848
126 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF document contains numerous embedded URLs, many of which are hosted on disposable domains and appear to be part of a link farm, suggesting a phishing or malware distribution attempt. The ML classifier and ClamAV detection strongly indicate malicious intent. While no scripts were explicitly extracted, the PDF structure and embedded links are characteristic of phishing lures.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9994

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://oaklandchildcare.org/sites/default/files/webform/85322732160.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://cicatsalud.com/html/sites/default/files/webform/90703453713.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://cicatsalud.com/html/sites/default/files/webform/dizage.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://seiary.com/sites/default/files/webform/rec/wugibizipudaxejomite.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.ofalloncasting.com/sites/default/files/webform/dapajinosez.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ambrose.edu/sites/default/files/webform/61928937085.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://portal-mysigma.com/system/files/student-proof/9555400870.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.sumnercountyhospital.org/sites/default/files/webform/72664382884.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://spotlight-sites.com/sites/default/files/webform/jalipoxelelikepobolid.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.friendlycc.com/sites/default/files/webform/47778491084.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/In PDF document text
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/typedesigners.htmlIn PDF document text
    • http://www.opentle.orgIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/1eyvgo/aqOO/~3/3CAf4wW3hvY/uplcv?utm_term=stairway+to+heaven+korean+drama+episode+1+english+subtitlesPDF link annotation
    • https://gradfutures.princeton.edu/system/files/webform/25860956451.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://community.princeton.edu/system/files/webform/26098210740.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://dejavu.sourceforge.netIn PDF document text
    • http://dejavu.sourceforge.net/wiki/index.php/LicenseIn PDF document text
    • http://scripts.sil.org/OFLIn PDF document text
    • http://www.gnu.org/licenses/gpl.htmlIn PDF document text

Extracted artifacts 5

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
stream_006_off00013987.bin decompressed-pdf-stream PDF FlateDecoded stream at offset 0x13987 16376 bytes
SHA-256: 8776d61c89b8fe8e3e781297be26dd180835806acfb79281a8b190ee352d13b8
font_00_sfnt_off0000dd05.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xDD05 4460 bytes
SHA-256: b31b01ae6e8f7e16f0920c7b25c72245ce83647d97132b5aa53f405918c7d663
font_01_sfnt_off0000ed00.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xED00 5984 bytes
SHA-256: 0a95168740ff58dbc575e2a55d870cbb5f5277c4c3d0e22e2a14736070dc6ac5
font_02_sfnt_off00010148.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x10148 6824 bytes
SHA-256: 681c2ab852b614c7c0b4e1bd8a843c3121c6494bc9fe96c1dd16e6b77675d88a
font_03_sfnt_off0001122f.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x1122F 11856 bytes
SHA-256: f1bf664f2ff921a55ed69d4a9c22b9aa34666c8e9b5f191c20857a6124d22f06