Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 438a98e02c291e6a…

MALICIOUS

PDF

69.5 KB Created: 2021-04-20 21:19:04 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7) First seen: 2021-05-26
MD5: 916cc64c2ef5e5dcd4bcc841afd9cf28 SHA-1: 2f3ddb29e5b6dc29e41472b1709eba41edb95673 SHA-256: 438a98e02c291e6ad313f3b5d03fbd2d826981540e4da291fa9f026506bfa4ba
126 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF contains numerous embedded URLs, many of which point to disposable domains or appear to be part of a link farm, a common tactic for phishing or distributing further malware. The ML classifier and ClamAV detection strongly indicate malicious intent. While no scripts were explicitly extracted, the PDF structure and embedded links suggest it's designed to redirect users to malicious sites.

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.pharoxglobal.com/sites/default/files/webform/balulata.pdf In PDF document text
    • https://www.enwidth.com/sites/default/files/webform/resumes/noranixuguwetepefosobad.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.pbttphtk.gov.my/sites/default/files/webform/kafavepovimurajubek.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ambrose.edu/sites/default/files/webform/gewematumupam.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://klm3fg.grhosting.cz/sites/default/files/webform/files/40110328039.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.pbttphtk.gov.my/sites/default/files/webform/31626011693.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.pbttphtk.gov.my/sites/default/files/webform/42283273604.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.osgeurope.com/sites/osg-corporate.dev/files/webform/47147916176.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.ofalloncasting.com/sites/default/files/webform/66890294103.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.osgeurope.com/sites/osg-corporate.dev/files/webform/10654010608.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/skout/mBVl/~3/zMnd8XtcwSM/uplcv?utm_term=mercury+and+me+book+online+freePDF link annotation
    • https://drones.princeton.edu/system/files/webform/xakunowegetudirojevogejiw.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://umatter.princeton.edu/system/files/webform/requests/72435273025.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ec.europa.eu/eip/agriculture/sites/default/files/webform/44438097533.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_off0000d312.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xD312 5300 bytes
SHA-256: c9cefa2f080c33cfaac010f1d8a227f9fb014d6d7bb4793bbf614316256d9d9b
font_01_sfnt_off0000e51b.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xE51B 10792 bytes
SHA-256: cdb92c1663833a1344097cf80dd7bb1754bf9fa90488c2387d924424f0d6e45b

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