Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 41e1dbe13b462e10…

MALICIOUS

PDF

73.8 KB Created: 2021-04-08 15:26:30 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7) First seen: 2021-05-29
MD5: 51651e426a5ffcac72357fe9a806fb30 SHA-1: 7fc5d0ac0b02835039b654782902747d94f49355 SHA-256: 41e1dbe13b462e107c018ca6b8bc86ab81e6612b38b9201ada53f68d6b84abb1
134 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF contains numerous embedded URLs pointing to potentially malicious sites, and ClamAV detection confirms its malicious nature. The heuristic 'PDF_SEO_DISPOSABLE_LINK_FARM' indicates a pattern of using numerous distinct hosts for link distribution, suggesting a phishing or malware distribution campaign. While no scripts were explicitly extracted, the presence of external URIs and the overall structure suggest an attempt to redirect the user to a malicious resource.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9996

Heuristics 6

  • 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.
  • Visual download / call-to-action button lure low SE_DOWNLOAD_BUTTON
    Document contains a call-to-action phrase ('Click here to download', 'Download Now', etc.) — low-signal unless other findings point to a malicious workflow
  • 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://russian-ice-spb.ru/sites/default/files/webform/files/zatepatepekaberemosigedix.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://pilgrimland.com/sites/default/files/webform/resume-uploads/jokefogebefuzifuzew.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://spotlight-sites.com/sites/default/files/webform/jalipoxelelikepobolid.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.blplegal.com/sites/default/files/webform/lolavojirubopikumu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://seiary.com/sites/default/files/webform/rec/wugibizipudaxejomite.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.a1touchsolution.nl/sites/default/files/wozupidojenebimovom.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://cicatsalud.com/html/sites/default/files/webform/28693943460.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://oaklandchildcare.org/sites/default/files/webform/65810703597.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://web.liderpapel.com/sites/default/files/webform/53484808665.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.dgs-interparts.be/sites/default/files/41094691834.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.pbttphtk.gov.my/sites/default/files/webform/kafavepovimurajubek.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://extranet.blanchisserie-toulousaine-de-sante.com/sites/extranet.blanchisserie-toulousaine-de-sante.com/files/documents/justificatifs/bugoxugokerudanetisene.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/In PDF document text
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/typedesigners.htmlIn PDF document text
    • http://www.daltonmaag.com/In PDF document text
    • http://fedorahosted.org/lohitIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/1eyvgo/aqOO/~3/fzgW7-mxBc0/uplcv?utm_term=biology+mcq+in+hindi+pdf+downloadPDF link annotation
    • https://printandmail.princeton.edu/system/files/webform/83328436210.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://printandmail.princeton.edu/system/files/webform/fasulegok.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 4

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
font_00_sfnt_off0000ce4d.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xCE4D 5256 bytes
SHA-256: bc63812a3647901ea99f564bad9fb96527297fb757b913b54f37dafee389a1cb
font_01_sfnt_off0000e003.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xE003 9868 bytes
SHA-256: 9942fa171c768bd4562497b627d1aec6de4bc2ae81b36ff92c2723b411a6557c
font_02_sfnt_off000101c0.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x101C0 4324 bytes
SHA-256: 1062cd8ddf90f4344fa193b395386d5669df1a952e5759311ca261a71931f361
font_03_sfnt_off00010fc0.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x10FC0 2300 bytes
SHA-256: bcee5e4c5da53c12af75dc9ac7703cb1dde8d44ca70cb056623c99fd1cea3b6c