Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 2c8152e74047d994…

MALICIOUS

PDF

71.9 KB Created: 2021-04-15 22:18:14 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7) First seen: 2021-05-29
MD5: bfdebaa302519d0e196da76edc85d62b SHA-1: 01e9ba54fb787a1b3a85ea9055406889a7f57002 SHA-256: 2c8152e74047d9945aef1a4fe19bd0fd6d9971eafcfd78af7d3efa24eeb6e6e7
126 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF contains numerous embedded URLs, many of which point to seemingly legitimate domains but are structured to host PDF files, suggesting a link farm or redirection mechanism. The ML classifier and ClamAV detection strongly indicate malicious intent. While no scripts were explicitly extracted, the PDF structure and URL patterns are consistent with phishing or malware delivery campaigns.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9995

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.osgeurope.com/sites/osg-corporate.dev/files/webform/19824824677.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://www.grotekeukens.be/sites/default/files/webform/gmawards2018/98751459569.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.osgeurope.com/sites/osg-corporate.dev/files/webform/7486912807.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.pharoxglobal.com/sites/default/files/webform/80628544521.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ambrose.edu/sites/default/files/webform/58588935603.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://grossenbacher.co.nz/en/system/files/avoidance-training-certificates/tojawi.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/1eyvgo/aqOO/~3/Om9ozkHLxGw/uplcv?utm_term=healthcare+project+management+jobs+chicagoPDF link annotation
    • https://thesanfordschool.asu.edu/sites/default/files/webform/moxogugudufagelo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://minorsoncampus.princeton.edu/system/files/webform/fujixedapilevunagujos.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://lib.asu.edu/system/files/webform/vabomabexajamoja.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://minorsoncampus.princeton.edu/system/files/webform/libovonudipiguriteg.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_off0000cfc8.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xCFC8 5312 bytes
SHA-256: 37f98b06889c2a59c076bccfadd2f310be3387f8aee0f5dce518e5d7d23e8ed7
font_01_sfnt_off0000e1a1.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xE1A1 10408 bytes
SHA-256: 7db23f551773f6cbf18eccf0475890f149c3daf5df73049c6b6e410d36f9b668
font_02_sfnt_off0001050a.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x1050A 4324 bytes
SHA-256: 1062cd8ddf90f4344fa193b395386d5669df1a952e5759311ca261a71931f361