Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 2deb77cafdd80c0d…

MALICIOUS

PDF

63.7 KB Created: 2021-04-09 07:51:02 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7) First seen: 2021-09-16
MD5: 73c3b604145e98480152f6bea8e6aa87 SHA-1: ee3fba0d7ed0ce3c7e06dc5e76db3baf5e77920b SHA-256: 2deb77cafdd80c0d548660c138d3f44aaf828ea9fb2b6b052e227abe772e4c52
124 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The sample is identified as malicious by multiple heuristics, including ML classification and ClamAV, indicating a high likelihood of malicious intent. The PDF contains numerous embedded URLs, with one pointing to 'portal-mysigma.com', which is flagged as suspicious. The heuristic 'PDF_SEO_DISPOSABLE_LINK_FARM' suggests the PDF is designed to host many links, potentially for SEO manipulation or to distribute various malicious payloads. Although no scripts were explicitly extracted, the presence of embedded URLs and the overall structure strongly suggest a phishing or malware delivery attempt.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9954

Heuristics 4

  • 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
  • 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://portal-mysigma.com/system/files/student-proof/47432021317.pdf In PDF document text
    • https://www.mainephilanthropy.org/sites/default/files/50588642306.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.jsif.org/sites/default/files/webform/94808830073.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.newburghgroup.com/sites/default/files/webform/resumes/mogewewe.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/xaduxiwipel.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.muttypawsacademy.com/sites/default/files/webform/vaccines/2944445507.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://spotlight-sites.com/sites/default/files/webform/wokasonexigugeb.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ambrose.edu/sites/default/files/webform/fabifuturofutip.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.osgeurope.com/sites/osg-corporate.dev/files/webform/nutuzisujobipusife.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ambrose.edu/sites/default/files/webform/sovurusogizafubeb.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.jts.org.jo/sites/default/files/webform/nisegat.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.jwico.com/sites/default/files/webform/69174909787.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/Uplcv/~3/zMnd8XtcwSM/uplcv?utm_term=condominium+property+act+in+sri+lanka+pdfPDF link annotation
    • https://community.princeton.edu/system/files/webform/22535495660.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://community.princeton.edu/system/files/webform/36479690150.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://printandmail.princeton.edu/system/files/webform/83328436210.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://community.princeton.edu/system/files/webform/xakefabobadu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://printandmail.princeton.edu/system/files/webform/50156150340.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://scripts.sil.org/OFLIn PDF document text

Extracted artifacts 1

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
font_00_sfnt_off0000e038.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xE038 5372 bytes
SHA-256: a3c4c0ed4a041508af062047fdd8113e369b6e12483a7dd362dd79a091785f9f