Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 32999b7ef963b211…

MALICIOUS

PDF

70.3 KB Created: 2021-04-25 12:55:09 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7) First seen: 2021-05-26
MD5: 4804b3c17196e09b833aded6390d88fd SHA-1: 95213098bbed37e19796b20ce4f1e76a0965c076 SHA-256: 32999b7ef963b2118adc0697ad210ea937ec4a53148af2975ebc3ad6bf46e150
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 hosted on seemingly legitimate domains but point to suspicious file paths, suggesting a link farm or phishing attempt. The ML classifier and ClamAV detection strongly indicate malicious intent. While no scripts were explicitly extracted, the PDF structure and embedded links are characteristic of phishing lures designed to redirect users to malicious sites.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9997

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 https://ambrose.edu/sites/default/files/webform/11364316539.pdf In PDF document text
    • https://www.mothercare.ro/sites/default/files/webform/resumes/28941778760.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://cicatsalud.com/html/sites/default/files/webform/32675510575.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.a1touchsolution.nl/sites/default/files/95216779236.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.a1touchsolution.nl/sites/default/files/larigujumikanezazezogiwi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.ofalloncasting.com/sites/default/files/webform/tirudekamevajoluzagobumi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://oaklandchildcare.org/sites/default/files/webform/subeditanutojodojewogize.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.telluridescience.org/sites/default/files/tstc-applications/pagasumoxozodaxatukaliwus.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://klm3fg.grhosting.cz/sites/default/files/webform/files/6948618973.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/cv9VXjIrmdE/uplcv?utm_term=what+does+it+mean+when+apple+battery+charger+flashes+orangePDF link annotation
    • https://campusrec.princeton.edu/system/files/webform/rilawadabovoxilezevateg.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://community.princeton.edu/system/files/webform/jidubiziro.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ec.europa.eu/eip/agriculture/sites/default/files/webform/zuwamusijugowop.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_off0000d3ff.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xD3FF 5916 bytes
SHA-256: cb2beb5b8c5b0cc47384fc6c736dc148bccf39788dd8955601023579e1b05d96
font_01_sfnt_off0000e818.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xE818 10664 bytes
SHA-256: 4fd870bf9ede4e5d405c9e571e3c3f6d778fb6f513fdc1094c7c7c80ded575c9