Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 320d96c9bd01b2f9…

MALICIOUS

PDF

69.3 KB Created: 2021-04-09 20:33:26 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7) First seen: 2021-07-13
MD5: d378f2990a35ecbc417cff8931b90cac SHA-1: b8af71e83b2bd24ee7ddc6b58264d9397a9a8b59 SHA-256: 320d96c9bd01b2f9d052259195412b3a30025014cf8ed64e4c7a3dc8d4a54118
124 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 domains that appear to be part of a link farm designed to obscure the true destination. The ClamAV detection and ML classifier strongly indicate malicious intent. While no scripts were directly extracted, the PDF structure and embedded links suggest an attempt to redirect the user to a malicious site, likely for phishing or to download a secondary payload.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.7685

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://www.pbttphtk.gov.my/sites/default/files/webform/32056102714.pdf In PDF document text
    • https://www.dgs-interparts.be/sites/default/files/55949953827.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ambrose.edu/sites/default/files/webform/fenalop.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://cicatsalud.com/html/sites/default/files/webform/39809543560.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.jsif.org/sites/default/files/webform/kedoruxanagavapiwo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://grossenbacher.co.nz/en/system/files/avoidance-training-certificates/pidefukil.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.jwico.com/sites/default/files/webform/69174909787.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.uts.cw/sites/default/files/webform/bofuwidesuxugebogaxa.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/~3/6naE_Nh8_CY/uplcv?utm_term=fanaa+izle+t%25C3%25BCrk%25C3%25A7e+dublaj+iPDF link annotation
    • https://www.vub.be/sites/vub/files/webform/16824703900.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://lib.asu.edu/system/files/webform/simadovi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://minorsoncampus.princeton.edu/system/files/webform/fujixedapilevunagujos.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://scripts.sil.org/OFLIn PDF document text
    • http://dejavu.sourceforge.netIn PDF document text
    • http://dejavu.sourceforge.net/wiki/index.php/LicenseIn PDF document text

Extracted artifacts 3

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
font_00_sfnt_off0000c7ba.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xC7BA 5000 bytes
SHA-256: c8aa8b5d5bd0437eb51a084804339cdb0d2f844cc3ac90b8868a08c4f99ba410
font_01_sfnt_off0000d893.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xD893 11632 bytes
SHA-256: e9878b0c31687d66e1606520c0043fdf4c333fa2bc765b00f2dc200174e0481c
font_02_sfnt_off0000fc7b.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xFC7B 16376 bytes
SHA-256: f267a97a42ed964490c0c36cf8d24d30f5cfc386ee24850e75bb3a4991f11828