Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 331853d681177bdc…

MALICIOUS

PDF

116.2 KB Created: 2021-04-21 00:38:51 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7) First seen: 2021-05-29
MD5: 20bf4ebb98438852caf62a185d826c57 SHA-1: 26357af65969b3dfb03f5c9043e2d4561b91ca4b SHA-256: 331853d681177bdc8d63f169c5b9d95701fdfa6556287cfbd44c6db1fec30e52
126 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 disposable domains and are structured as webform submissions, indicating a link farm or phishing lure. The ML classifier and ClamAV detection strongly suggest malicious intent, likely related to phishing or malware distribution. While no scripts were explicitly extracted, the PDF structure and URL patterns are consistent with techniques used to redirect users to malicious 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 https://www.jsif.org/sites/default/files/webform/kedoruxanagavapiwo.pdf In PDF document text
    • https://www.pharoxglobal.com/sites/default/files/webform/70645978292.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ambrose.edu/sites/default/files/webform/durigoxilakomisi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.woonsocketri.org/system/temporary/webform/bogobovimefegaf.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://klm3fg.grhosting.cz/sites/default/files/webform/files/zavemazawutojene.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://oaklandchildcare.org/sites/default/files/webform/41266633523.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.osgeurope.com/sites/osg-corporate.dev/files/webform/3563422068.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://cicatsalud.com/html/sites/default/files/webform/dekif.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ambrose.edu/sites/default/files/webform/61928937085.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.a1touchsolution.nl/sites/default/files/dovav.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.jwico.com/sites/default/files/webform/47965191786.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.grotekeukens.be/sites/default/files/webform/gmawards2018/gurolaxi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.enwidth.com/sites/default/files/webform/resumes/palepipob.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://aboss.by/sites/default/files/webform/vobefoxejajizagosoberob.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.jwico.com/sites/default/files/webform/kupoxogij.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ambrose.edu/sites/default/files/webform/nakevatekiviva.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/~3/1xuhb7AK25c/uplcv?utm_term=justin+timberlake+-+can%2527t+stop+the+feeling+%2528oscars+performance+2017%2529PDF link annotation
    • https://ec.europa.eu/eip/agriculture/sites/default/files/webform/95830943344.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_off00018239.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x18239 6248 bytes
SHA-256: 74b3a72aa68b625e88bd5322ab5e4ae3b9d5f0793e5657eef885e77a9156ea87
font_01_sfnt_off0001977d.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x1977D 14544 bytes
SHA-256: 0ec2ef6ba13982d671d4afeb885291d4ba664fc253ff342d721e7d0bfe88f48d

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