Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 360195a14a0c7f93…

MALICIOUS

PDF

74.2 KB Created: 2021-04-15 08:13:07 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7) First seen: 2021-05-29
MD5: bfd222b641a057e3e714097029a72cd0 SHA-1: 02fbc50f6f1c656a61154cf8fc1ddc5fadbc2889 SHA-256: 360195a14a0c7f93d60ba8b856a7a46bba561c869d2179703724d8a5fbe3b051
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 suspicious domains, indicating a link farm or phishing attempt. The ML classifier and ClamAV detection strongly suggest malicious intent. While no scripts were explicitly extracted, the PDF structure and embedded links are indicative of a spearphishing attachment designed 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.telluridescience.org/sites/default/files/tstc-applications/nuwirofu.pdf In PDF document text
    • https://www.mothercare.ro/sites/default/files/webform/resumes/95866450710.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.mothercare.ro/sites/default/files/webform/resumes/topijetidilotifoga.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://oaklandchildcare.org/sites/default/files/webform/wafawujozovu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://pilgrimland.com/sites/default/files/webform/resume-uploads/52872338461.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://seiary.com/sites/default/files/webform/rec/jizexatunurometubukos.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://portal-mysigma.com/system/files/student-proof/72808970040.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://aboss.by/sites/default/files/webform/89266631471.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.enwidth.com/sites/default/files/webform/resumes/22435641867.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.pbttphtk.gov.my/sites/default/files/webform/1232685222.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://cicatsalud.com/html/sites/default/files/webform/foxegedukob.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://cicatsalud.com/html/sites/default/files/webform/25507329945.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/BkSY9tpko7c/uplcv?utm_term=chicco+nextfit+zip+reviewPDF link annotation
    • https://printandmail.princeton.edu/system/files/webform/31356988355.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://lib.asu.edu/system/files/webform/bidemuf.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://minorsoncampus.princeton.edu/system/files/webform/jawugu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://minorsoncampus.princeton.edu/system/files/webform/fujixedapilevunagujos.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_off0000e767.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xE767 4860 bytes
SHA-256: d2aa13cc420ed64fad8d4b64df516e762e1568030981df6bf1f7bafaa4b350e9
font_01_sfnt_off0000f80e.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF80E 11072 bytes
SHA-256: 1524028dc0ec31c84e1db0066ec892981f532c433d3e973eb745cc8b41648a93