Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 31218aece7497326…

MALICIOUS

PDF

70.3 KB Created: 2021-04-19 09:55:11 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7) First seen: 2021-05-29
MD5: 5de067f77bd44aa152fbf3a1b087da7b SHA-1: 55ec4fe7e15adc7e184568b1107e2691fc32cad7 SHA-256: 31218aece7497326966c72e5f949995754fcda198fc92441712e9af22e448356
126 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF contains numerous embedded URLs, many of which are associated with link farms and disposable hosting, indicating a phishing or redirection scheme. The ML classifier and ClamAV detection strongly suggest malicious intent, likely related to phishing or distributing further malware. Although no scripts were explicitly extracted, the PDF structure and embedded URIs are indicative of a spearphishing attachment.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9998

Heuristics 5

  • ClamAV: Pdf.Phishing.Trojan-d2528dad23a95d95-d2528dad23a95d95-10044376-0 critical CLAMAV_DETECTION
    ClamAV detected this file as malware: Pdf.Phishing.Trojan-d2528dad23a95d95-d2528dad23a95d95-10044376-0
  • 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://www.sumnercountyhospital.org/sites/default/files/webform/bavowusakixonodokuja.pdf In PDF document text
    • https://www.jwico.com/sites/default/files/webform/koxajupenukolipidawikopi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ambrose.edu/sites/default/files/webform/46846662681.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ambrose.edu/sites/default/files/webform/padubomi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://portal-mysigma.com/system/files/student-proof/47432021317.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.jsif.org/sites/default/files/webform/rijuluzevowogadabiwi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.muttypawsacademy.com/sites/default/files/webform/vaccines/40041164747.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://cicatsalud.com/html/sites/default/files/webform/dozigax.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://grossenbacher.co.nz/en/system/files/avoidance-training-certificates/bekam.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/1eyvgo/aqOO/~3/LPIa9PGmDLg/uplcv?utm_term=toro+greenkeeper+212+for+salePDF link annotation
    • https://www.healthdata.org/sites/default/files/resumes/mevupuxapiledowitire.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://printandmail.princeton.edu/system/files/webform/83401752781.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ec.europa.eu/eip/agriculture/sites/default/files/webform/66140853426.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ec.europa.eu/eip/agriculture/sites/default/files/webform/56905881998.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.vub.be/sites/vub/files/webform/pagilavamuvawasaxega.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.vub.be/sites/vub/files/webform/rifavuzido.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_off0000d338.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xD338 5268 bytes
SHA-256: 8b248b345dd9d301fb6defca9dbe1dd4106827eccdff973860bb3708dfe40911
font_01_sfnt_off0000e546.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xE546 11396 bytes
SHA-256: 32139a20118cc0b8640fca3809d5bb1cf104047a37f1071e042ecc3353fb5ecb