Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 40814e15b8fb51ca…

MALICIOUS

PDF

78.1 KB Created: 2021-04-22 19:12:33 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7) First seen: 2021-05-26
MD5: 2af8600ce8034ee9ed42106fee0dd3ce SHA-1: 8ee36eab9cd118a70930e56307b97959ae35b8ec SHA-256: 40814e15b8fb51caa28152649bb634d193f3af8fe0d21b7857b740b6b6d4b596
126 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

This PDF file was detected as malicious by ClamAV and an ML classifier, indicating a high likelihood of malicious intent. The presence of numerous external URIs, including one identified as a link farm on disposable hosting, suggests an attempt to redirect users to potentially harmful websites. While the document body is heavily obfuscated, the overall structure and heuristic firings point towards a phishing or malware distribution scheme.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9997

Heuristics 5

  • ClamAV: Pdf.Phishing.Trojan-d2528dad23a95d95-d2528dad23a95d95-10044376-0 critical CLAMAV_DETECTION
    ClamAV detected this file as malware: Pdf.Phishing.Trojan-d2528dad23a95d95-d2528dad23a95d95-10044376-0
  • 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://www.pacificsportfraservalley.com/sites/default/files/webform/joxelivoresilawefuxeli.pdf In PDF document text
    • https://web.liderpapel.com/sites/default/files/webform/dojoxopanikofogenag.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.jwico.com/sites/default/files/webform/pagijan.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ambrose.edu/sites/default/files/webform/11118021720.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ambrose.edu/sites/default/files/webform/durigoxilakomisi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.ofalloncasting.com/sites/default/files/webform/gegemapoxazokex.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://cicatsalud.com/html/sites/default/files/webform/24974410021.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.blplegal.com/sites/default/files/webform/80507347088.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.muttypawsacademy.com/sites/default/files/webform/vaccines/95859103094.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ambrose.edu/sites/default/files/webform/zabufenopi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.ofalloncasting.com/sites/default/files/webform/wibojamivumararevede.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.woonsocketri.org/system/temporary/webform/54194604641.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.enwidth.com/sites/default/files/webform/resumes/palepipob.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/BvfzZFkJO3s/uplcv?utm_term=hp+elitebook+2570p+datenblattPDF link annotation
    • https://gradfutures.princeton.edu/system/files/webform/48950823745.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://community.princeton.edu/system/files/webform/tujuxegagisezemesolut.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.healthdata.org/sites/default/files/resumes/fanonexujezurexuli.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_off0000ed81.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xED81 5324 bytes
SHA-256: 6e44d8f098112614693a69713cf1dced7def8725ca86e05ea8bcf24e71ecf7e9
font_01_sfnt_off0000ffb2.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xFFB2 13908 bytes
SHA-256: c59118f86f965da39c050bc1f290cfe760810a1cde65802df922c94d0115d528

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