Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 3f92dd80a05e830a…

MALICIOUS

PDF

138.9 KB Created: 2021-04-14 17:13:39 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7) First seen: 2021-05-29
MD5: 720fe2e2ecf2b94cc479f592278e82d7 SHA-1: 82376c7bf906aed048c00163771fda0fcf2c82bc SHA-256: 3f92dd80a05e830a45d63e6326220654b18f9d178d8c8d4a06412b5de84c013e
126 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

This PDF file was flagged as malicious by ML classifiers and ClamAV, indicating a phishing or trojan payload. The document body, though heavily obfuscated, contains references to 'Black panther marvel comic pdf' and uses wkhtmltopdf, suggesting a lure to a fake document. Multiple external URLs are embedded, some of which are part of link farms designed to obscure the final destination, likely a malicious site.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9997

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.mothercare.ro/sites/default/files/webform/resumes/49428740932.pdf In PDF document text
    • https://www.natsihwa.org.au/sites/default/files/webform/tesogiruzan.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.osgeurope.com/sites/osg-corporate.dev/files/webform/memirudomonejusowanasu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.birdlifebotswana.org.bw/sites/default/files/webform/sightings-sketches/12812059159.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.woonsocketri.org/system/temporary/webform/viwubamonutimujogigifowi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.uts.cw/sites/default/files/webform/nukuromenalifaru.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.telluridescience.org/sites/default/files/tstc-applications/dadesiludidogujuta.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.uts.cw/sites/default/files/webform/pugixenarewowu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.muttypawsacademy.com/sites/default/files/webform/vaccines/nojezajewi.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/ngfLrbzwjls/uplcv?utm_term=black+panther+marvel+comic+pdfPDF link annotation
    • https://community.princeton.edu/system/files/webform/13590028771.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://campusrec.princeton.edu/system/files/webform/26909318775.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://community.princeton.edu/system/files/webform/40347257249.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_off0001e5b4.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x1E5B4 5388 bytes
SHA-256: 9e76978ec2582b6e15f571a38bb8e8bf51346cda5ba021e02a87e8064c142cfd
font_01_sfnt_off0001f7eb.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x1F7EB 11612 bytes
SHA-256: da815ce43604e5dd144eb97b0253222edcfd1d996de787340a2011f3e70c1410

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