Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 39bc9e9b4a5f6318…

MALICIOUS

PDF

70.5 KB Created: 2021-04-22 02:48:41 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7) First seen: 2021-05-29
MD5: 331e70837de4c407191c31480acda759 SHA-1: 2ffac907fd23a61a4b49d5c42816aad427a02120 SHA-256: 39bc9e9b4a5f6318b7efc18463752d2ed01f243721c7a97d72477153f7071edb
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 point to disposable or unknown domains, suggesting a link farm or phishing attempt. The ML classifier and ClamAV detection strongly indicate malicious intent. While no scripts were explicitly extracted, the PDF structure and embedded links are consistent with a phishing lure designed to redirect users to malicious 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 http://spotlight-sites.com/sites/default/files/webform/jalipoxelelikepobolid.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://portal-mysigma.com/system/files/student-proof/41429692510.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.sumnercountyhospital.org/sites/default/files/webform/zupusozuxabodes.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.ofalloncasting.com/sites/default/files/webform/mibotemesasis.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://vectorcorp.net/sites/default/files/webform/resume/dutaberapowuniz.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.blplegal.com/sites/default/files/webform/25596831819.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ambrose.edu/sites/default/files/webform/padubomi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://vectorcorp.net/sites/default/files/webform/resume/dofivefodazewinewes.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.mainephilanthropy.org/sites/default/files/ziladiweropisikiforab.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.woonsocketri.org/system/temporary/webform/mupiroto.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.jwico.com/sites/default/files/webform/xojisipet.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.natsihwa.org.au/sites/default/files/webform/51762260361.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://aboss.by/sites/default/files/webform/8474239295.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.pbttphtk.gov.my/sites/default/files/webform/3018222411.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://web.liderpapel.com/sites/default/files/webform/53484808665.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/BkSY9tpko7c/uplcv?utm_term=best+bodyweight+bodybuilding+programPDF link annotation
    • https://minorsoncampus.princeton.edu/system/files/webform/97035559296.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_off0000d546.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xD546 5756 bytes
SHA-256: 02e95e2d4d9e5336ca42c099214598cf1c0aab16c7f5613dd9fac88784fb3af1
font_01_sfnt_off0000e8cb.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xE8CB 10492 bytes
SHA-256: 40c71c9b233e189f23dc8c0841e3683ac5b1279693deadff097be37f9ea00bd1