Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 43b15a1dc34e7e85…

MALICIOUS

PDF

79.4 KB Created: 2021-04-12 23:26:46 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7) First seen: 2021-06-30
MD5: f0a6d6a97e97ca4a948c03f052597006 SHA-1: 32da9cc3756485fbda2c17fa5546a4b9259e01fd SHA-256: 43b15a1dc34e7e85e7c4fdb3d0fd91f54391ba06eebd4f1ae5f6f63648c703d6
126 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

The PDF file was detected as malicious by ML classifiers and ClamAV, specifically identified as a phishing trojan. The document body, though heavily obfuscated, contains text suggesting it is a lure for "Gone girl pdf online", likely to trick users into downloading further malicious content. The presence of numerous external URIs, many pointing to disposable domains or link farms, further supports a phishing or malicious content distribution scheme.

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://vectorcorp.net/sites/default/files/webform/resume/dufovomajaxavekasodulep.pdf In PDF document text
    • https://www.mothercare.ro/sites/default/files/webform/resumes/topijetidilotifoga.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.mothercare.ro/sites/default/files/webform/resumes/tizagoge.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.birdlifebotswana.org.bw/sites/default/files/webform/sightings-sketches/13349970620.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.sumnercountyhospital.org/sites/default/files/webform/sixativitav.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://vectorcorp.net/sites/default/files/webform/resume/wogudodijanaferewinige.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.pacificsportfraservalley.com/sites/default/files/webform/zajufofagobixipisuna.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.natsihwa.org.au/sites/default/files/webform/zolevijovexoneda.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.mothercare.ro/sites/default/files/webform/resumes/sojivezogi.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/~3/6naE_Nh8_CY/uplcv?utm_term=gone+girl+pdf+onlinePDF link annotation
    • https://www.ice.cam.ac.uk/sites/www.ice.cam.ac.uk/files/webform/7842358922.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://community.princeton.edu/system/files/webform/26098210740.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://thesanfordschool.asu.edu/sites/default/files/webform/fapivo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://drones.princeton.edu/system/files/webform/vijebutipide.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_off0000fb2d.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xFB2D 4852 bytes
SHA-256: 6b393cc0d1100dcb2ed3c450056de9409dd68d21bcd71290f5b436b2db712425
font_01_sfnt_off00010bc3.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x10BC3 10852 bytes
SHA-256: 812d83f2c5b8e9fbde1a3cfde6ea5e5faf93b4555397813e5c2a23b5b5010e20

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