Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 36a268048dc8467d…

MALICIOUS

PDF

102.7 KB Created: 2021-04-25 12:16:10 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7) First seen: 2021-05-26
MD5: 5551224086e83989f09faf98c717ee24 SHA-1: 9540008387b4e5cecbc30ab67c02798c50cab116 SHA-256: 36a268048dc8467d3ec53fa489fcc487561cfac51daccd97213cdcb61d7d722b
126 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF document contains numerous embedded URLs, many of which are hosted on disposable domains or are part of a link farm, indicating a phishing or malicious redirection attempt. The ML classifier and ClamAV detection strongly suggest malicious intent, likely to direct users to phishing sites or download further malware. Although no scripts were explicitly extracted, the PDF structure and URL patterns are consistent with malicious document delivery.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9989

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://www.mothercare.ro/sites/default/files/webform/resumes/jilagofuzepev.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://www.muttypawsacademy.com/sites/default/files/webform/vaccines/lomaxitafuvutatu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.natsihwa.org.au/sites/default/files/webform/xugapovapoz.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://oaklandchildcare.org/sites/default/files/webform/subeditanutojodojewogize.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.ofalloncasting.com/sites/default/files/webform/tirudekamevajoluzagobumi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://natsihwa.org.au/sites/default/files/webform/17015803.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://natsihwa.org.au/sites/default/files/webform/80931084074.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/In PDF document text
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/typedesigners.htmlIn PDF document text
    • http://fedorahosted.org/lohitIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/1eyvgo/aqOO/~3/GLLx1DTH0VQ/uplcv?utm_term=computer+hardware+repair+pdf+in+hindiPDF link annotation
    • https://www.ice.cam.ac.uk/sites/www.ice.cam.ac.uk/files/webform/50075528518.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://printandmail.princeton.edu/system/files/webform/83401752781.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.vub.be/sites/vub/files/webform/16824703900.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
    • http://www.geocities.com/mitra_anirban/hobbies.htmGNUIn PDF document text
    • http://www.gnu.org/copyleft/gpl.htmRegularIn PDF document text

Extracted artifacts 4

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
font_00_sfnt_off00011b44.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x11B44 5068 bytes
SHA-256: a9eef4c82859ecce3b285df2b63af590e6d8b44e3dd2a4109c303bc19ab62cd3
font_01_sfnt_off00012c62.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x12C62 3720 bytes
SHA-256: 6539b129c5cd894636dc8f40f53a156c00c8f46378ab4f137c96d687a1cff6ed
font_02_sfnt_off000137c5.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x137C5 10512 bytes
SHA-256: 26fb27326297bcb311ab8e403bb4949017596d179b68226d9384111b25e39e36
font_03_sfnt_off00015c15.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x15C15 16152 bytes
SHA-256: fc7ce742671bb5133b54676b5c843fa6b282dee0d9fb042fee1c872aa93eb844

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