Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 350dc4ebd2a47a03…

MALICIOUS

PDF

68.3 KB Created: 2021-04-20 08:29:33 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7) First seen: 2021-05-29
MD5: b73de6261fbb8ce3e41297ee9840cd68 SHA-1: b0662521595247c8dc74a6361fe018dc9fb932dd SHA-256: 350dc4ebd2a47a03c28130d8a958faf5a398ceda029ff9bd91ca54474a73ef25
126 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF contains numerous embedded links, many pointing to disposable domains, which is a common tactic for phishing or distributing malware. The ML classifier and ClamAV detection strongly indicate malicious intent. While no scripts were explicitly extracted, the PDF structure and embedded links suggest an attempt to redirect the user to malicious content, likely involving JavaScript execution within the PDF viewer.

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.pharoxglobal.com/sites/default/files/webform/7322176875.pdf In PDF document text
    • https://natsihwa.org.au/sites/default/files/webform/mufuwujaxerafesa.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.newburghgroup.com/sites/default/files/webform/resumes/mogewewe.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.enwidth.com/sites/default/files/webform/resumes/79062027218.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.jwico.com/sites/default/files/webform/xojisipet.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.muttypawsacademy.com/sites/default/files/webform/vaccines/ranet.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.enwidth.com/sites/default/files/webform/resumes/bemefunojupupik.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://grossenbacher.co.nz/en/system/files/avoidance-training-certificates/tonitunivopevefasoxezaw.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://vectorcorp.net/sites/default/files/webform/resume/sowasipaxezok.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/Om9ozkHLxGw/uplcv?utm_term=english+speaking+course+app+freePDF link annotation
    • https://minorsoncampus.princeton.edu/system/files/webform/xadumiwedom.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://campusrec.princeton.edu/system/files/webform/7624886728.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_off0000cee1.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xCEE1 5300 bytes
SHA-256: e5e67e5b61cfcc24d4af64d5716890aedd5f446b9c5bb5dc0b36c65f1969dc37
font_01_sfnt_off0000e0eb.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xE0EB 10652 bytes
SHA-256: 679eda4d1a6dde8d4bf6229fabdf202cb34fd633ef694fe6411efd0ab44e9327