Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 34f92d6270a4c9d5…

MALICIOUS

PDF

94.1 KB Created: 2021-04-25 05:07:38 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7) First seen: 2021-09-27
MD5: 28de7cd575c49a4f12eb40084b116366 SHA-1: 93f3193b1ff5e6db30f111a647a7dcd990e6902c SHA-256: 34f92d6270a4c9d5841595f27dd2073eb6ec5d6d45b91ff7bd0180271597f87a
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 or unknown domains, indicating a link farm designed to redirect users. The ML classifier and ClamAV detection strongly suggest malicious intent, likely for phishing or malware distribution. Although no scripts were explicitly extracted, the PDF structure and embedded URIs are indicative of techniques used to redirect users to malicious sites.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9997

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.a1touchsolution.nl/sites/default/files/73086307569.pdf In PDF document text
    • https://www.jts.org.jo/sites/default/files/webform/nisegat.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.guninetwork.org/system/files/webform/heirri_proposals/gafazibo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://vectorcorp.net/sites/default/files/webform/resume/86038084563.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.termis.org/system/files/webform/776381217.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://extranet.blanchisserie-toulousaine-de-sante.com/sites/extranet.blanchisserie-toulousaine-de-sante.com/files/documents/justificatifs/pefusoxewirevujilo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.pacificsportfraservalley.com/sites/default/files/webform/zasadavatemomafupe.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.natsihwa.org.au/sites/default/files/webform/lavajaruzapelusudixavu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.guninetwork.org/system/files/webform/heirri_proposals/35039450578.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://klm3fg.grhosting.cz/sites/default/files/webform/files/16831560309.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://europa-ts.ru/sites/default/files/webform/sujeludepotunebimetoravij.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://oaklandchildcare.org/sites/default/files/webform/70037852461.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://aboss.by/sites/default/files/webform/76513539396.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://oaklandchildcare.org/sites/default/files/webform/85322732160.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/YTWXjIUwRh0/uplcv?utm_term=islamic+golden+words+in+urdu+smsPDF link annotation
    • https://community.princeton.edu/system/files/webform/fivedexexefo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://umatter.princeton.edu/system/files/webform/requests/tutoturabawukaxubudevodor.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://minorsoncampus.princeton.edu/system/files/webform/libovonudipiguriteg.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://dejavu.sourceforge.netIn PDF document text
    • http://dejavu.sourceforge.net/wiki/index.php/LicenseIn PDF document text
    • http://scripts.sil.org/OFLIn PDF document text

Extracted artifacts 3

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
stream_004_off000147d5.bin decompressed-pdf-stream PDF FlateDecoded stream at offset 0x147D5 20960 bytes
SHA-256: e111e206e4c12e9f50378f280d6351106f1db42ebea3719c4c680a2b0cb098c4
font_00_sfnt_off00010d76.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x10D76 5288 bytes
SHA-256: a72cde230032e7f9059202c4d6324614db465be5b87b7ac59ca471fd0a1ef3a0
font_01_sfnt_off00011f69.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x11F69 12036 bytes
SHA-256: 565264c3eb0ebca065c4d02e914a4171e6ccdef4ed105c18690c3e1725200035