Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 3a3c7f02a0ad0bc4…

MALICIOUS

PDF

78.9 KB Created: 2021-04-18 02:51:43 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7) First seen: 2021-06-30
MD5: 440048f82d72ed936fbbbb25cf07e0e5 SHA-1: 5a165776419f7563df5c77b8779f09c3d81036f3 SHA-256: 3a3c7f02a0ad0bc41e877747244e591343c79a3c75756d4adb849c07e64628db
66 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 seemingly legitimate domains but point to PDF files, suggesting a link farm or redirection mechanism. The ML classifier strongly indicates maliciousness. While no scripts were explicitly extracted, the presence of many external links and the overall structure point towards an attempt to direct the user to malicious content or phishing sites.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9998

Heuristics 4

  • 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.osgeurope.com/sites/osg-corporate.dev/files/webform/19824824677.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://www.guninetwork.org/system/files/webform/heirri_proposals/wozat.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://extranet.blanchisserie-toulousaine-de-sante.com/sites/extranet.blanchisserie-toulousaine-de-sante.com/files/documents/justificatifs/vawutudujenopudup.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ambrose.edu/sites/default/files/webform/sovurusogizafubeb.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.dgs-interparts.be/sites/default/files/xufatonapa.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://klm3fg.grhosting.cz/sites/default/files/webform/files/mimixinaxeralowevowijut.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.pacificsportfraservalley.com/sites/default/files/webform/zasadavatemomafupe.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://klm3fg.grhosting.cz/sites/default/files/webform/files/30253637425.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.birdlifebotswana.org.bw/sites/default/files/webform/sightings-sketches/bikepekeroluxujopabiko.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.osgeurope.com/sites/osg-corporate.dev/files/webform/35757612566.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://vectorcorp.net/sites/default/files/webform/resume/86038084563.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/Uplcv/~3/3CAf4wW3hvY/uplcv?utm_term=how+to+do+a+medical+case+reportPDF link annotation
    • https://thesanfordschool.asu.edu/sites/default/files/webform/85266863194.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://community.princeton.edu/system/files/webform/26098210740.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://campusrec.princeton.edu/system/files/webform/4552140304.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://dejavu.sourceforge.netIn PDF document text
    • http://dejavu.sourceforge.net/wiki/index.php/LicenseIn PDF document text

Extracted artifacts 3

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
font_00_sfnt_off0000e14b.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xE14B 5272 bytes
SHA-256: be469c2f9498b94a98fb858703ce0e173e018535596c09b25c497d2e4fc84dfa
font_01_sfnt_off0000f331.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF331 11240 bytes
SHA-256: 29bed91f1f3f588fb48dbf8877dc30ab170dc05ffa2bfd8d6a9b78c98b7844e9
font_02_sfnt_off0001191d.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x1191D 16204 bytes
SHA-256: a95eff378c135b1ab40d10b3cd1da1bafbc07f86005f57898d079c90d712ddbd