Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 37594776a634bb8b…

MALICIOUS

PDF

67.7 KB Created: 2021-04-12 15:38:18 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7) First seen: 2021-06-20
MD5: 01cfc9e1c87922e3ccb25181fcf617db SHA-1: ba5491aed83802bb650ba20c275b5a151e7c8e23 SHA-256: 37594776a634bb8be70c6edcda4835135ba8d4ebfb8d158201bf9e31527d6e49
126 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment T1204.002 Malicious Link

The PDF file was identified as malicious by ML classifiers and ClamAV, indicating a phishing or trojan threat. It functions as a link farm, presenting itself as a document with exercises but containing numerous links to external websites, some of which are hosted on disposable domains. The primary goal appears to be redirecting users to potentially harmful content.

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.enwidth.com/sites/default/files/webform/resumes/75468476758.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://www.muttypawsacademy.com/sites/default/files/webform/vaccines/powevalixerofewum.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://vectorcorp.net/sites/default/files/webform/resume/tefofavokalozigukar.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.dgs-interparts.be/sites/default/files/bipaxuvimul.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://aboss.by/sites/default/files/webform/8474239295.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.ofalloncasting.com/sites/default/files/webform/68406293253.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://europa-ts.ru/sites/default/files/webform/totikejeropisatuzubafaba.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.afscme65.org/system/files/webform/fabituwinuxofi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://oaklandchildcare.org/sites/default/files/webform/85278691340.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.friendlycc.com/sites/default/files/webform/29579557159.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://cicatsalud.com/html/sites/default/files/webform/19824170549.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://architecturaldesigninc.com/sites/default/files/72694480293.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.pbttphtk.gov.my/sites/default/files/webform/238550972.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=present+simple+and+continuous+exercises+pdf+with+answersPDF link annotation
    • https://ubmemeaensoprod.s3.amazonaws.com/ifsec_international/call_for_papers/2021/03/kizoromafogikigogusebef.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_off0000cce3.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xCCE3 5556 bytes
SHA-256: 5d07f4ef9291e7159b9f62cc47ec043078552cd6f8b5ad0909eacc0e875111f6
font_01_sfnt_off0000dfb0.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xDFB0 9900 bytes
SHA-256: 2ecc9a2a3c15e45187d6f58976dcd5904902583f1596a51c326b3004bb86f1ab