Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 2cc5bdaa6acd1eb5…

MALICIOUS

PDF

71.5 KB Created: 2021-04-16 22:31:56 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7) First seen: 2021-05-29
MD5: 3cf8702f13e44efd8140c363cdd47d9f SHA-1: 070adeb99f0a8bb63abfbecf3c99cc2cd53eaaed SHA-256: 2cc5bdaa6acd1eb51c5937a33ddf48e137b7f6c9c76a945e29e147d1b49f2815
126 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF file contains numerous embedded URLs, many of which point to disposable or suspicious domains, indicating a link farm or redirection scheme. The ML classifier and ClamAV detection strongly suggest malicious intent, likely for phishing or malware distribution. Although no scripts were explicitly extracted, the PDF structure and numerous external links are indicative of a malicious document designed to redirect users to harmful sites.

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 http://klm3fg.grhosting.cz/sites/default/files/webform/files/15194676649.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://www.muttypawsacademy.com/sites/default/files/webform/vaccines/40041164747.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.enwidth.com/sites/default/files/webform/resumes/17232120942.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.pbttphtk.gov.my/sites/default/files/webform/1232685222.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ambrose.edu/sites/default/files/webform/93854264345.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.birdlifebotswana.org.bw/sites/default/files/webform/sightings-sketches/13349970620.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://aboss.by/sites/default/files/webform/89266631471.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.pharoxglobal.com/sites/default/files/webform/zomufajiwadusepa.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.enwidth.com/sites/default/files/webform/resumes/sojinikud.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.muttypawsacademy.com/sites/default/files/webform/vaccines/95859103094.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://spotlight-sites.com/sites/default/files/webform/93789740410.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/~3/3CAf4wW3hvY/uplcv?utm_term=where+can+i+buy+avon+skin+so+soft+bug+guardPDF link annotation
    • https://umatter.princeton.edu/system/files/webform/requests/roporopapoviz.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://minorsoncampus.princeton.edu/system/files/webform/wetesagepe.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://minorsoncampus.princeton.edu/system/files/webform/27732669772.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_off0000d8e8.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xD8E8 5632 bytes
SHA-256: 7e523ca3dc160e0f2f93ed4916d082ca5b3418d8a2f17bdac386b8f77c9ca8c9
font_01_sfnt_off0000ec23.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xEC23 10700 bytes
SHA-256: 5880c5445352404fc85a6b473d6e0730e6dbcded58554ee44b88b816d77022f3

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