Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 3ed69eb812d3e5ff…

MALICIOUS

PDF

76.3 KB Created: 2021-04-16 23:44:48 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7) First seen: 2021-05-26
MD5: eb6a68e86a71b4a52c4b110fb5e375eb SHA-1: 3d92763de00e13ffa208e6c63e313117d690f9ca SHA-256: 3ed69eb812d3e5ffcb2a3a720974ba2aacfc20db18987f9d10ff257653c142ab
126 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF contains numerous embedded URLs pointing to various domains, many of which appear to be part of a link farm. The ML classifier and ClamAV detection strongly indicate malicious intent, likely for phishing or distributing further malware. Although no scripts were explicitly extracted, the PDF structure and URL patterns are consistent with malicious documents designed to redirect users to harmful 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://ambrose.edu/sites/default/files/webform/21691652676.pdf In PDF document text
    • https://www.jts.org.jo/sites/default/files/webform/76938035167.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://cicatsalud.com/html/sites/default/files/webform/dizage.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.osgeurope.com/sites/osg-corporate.dev/files/webform/fifomibap.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://extranet.blanchisserie-toulousaine-de-sante.com/sites/extranet.blanchisserie-toulousaine-de-sante.com/files/documents/justificatifs/goxara.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.mainephilanthropy.org/sites/default/files/kimakevenowafuxopepasu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.woonsocketri.org/system/temporary/webform/bogobovimefegaf.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.muttypawsacademy.com/sites/default/files/webform/vaccines/taxevoxasubosiwugudabi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.grotekeukens.be/sites/default/files/webform/gmawards2018/30150103061.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.visitsavannah.com/sites/default/files/webform/90994069376.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.jwico.com/sites/default/files/webform/71926652616.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.mainephilanthropy.org/sites/default/files/30695142459.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.viachristi.org/sites/default/files/webform/89070061484.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.osgeurope.com/sites/osg-corporate.dev/files/webform/gurasijam.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=integrated+chinese+audio+cdPDF link annotation
    • https://minorsoncampus.princeton.edu/system/files/webform/janoruzafasolefixos.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_off0000dc08.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xDC08 5104 bytes
SHA-256: 728bdc4fcc001f3d934dcad21994e45edaa9f710d439c0696f0dbff90f57cb2a
font_01_sfnt_off0000ed5f.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xED5F 9844 bytes
SHA-256: 0ef0e4f3727183b56c168debbd8be4ddfcca04bd7af6a3ccf3ce011d44a7774c
font_02_sfnt_off00010f53.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x10F53 16060 bytes
SHA-256: d1a84ba8f0e4a827a048d387db8dd5dae3538f1c7e72415b16af587a9947cdc7

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