Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 44272c68f38d86b2…

MALICIOUS

PDF

67.3 KB Created: 2021-04-09 21:58:10 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7) First seen: 2021-05-29
MD5: 0fc923006363b82f9bdd8789feb2efb5 SHA-1: 08ecdb7f1a8e2095ac1c1b37133b4fc37eca1ab3 SHA-256: 44272c68f38d86b2fa2855a9a2bdcffa561b084dd4dc698250dbf31b4d0dc811
126 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment T1204.002 Malicious File

The PDF file was detected as malicious by ClamAV and an ML classifier, indicating a high likelihood of malicious intent. The heuristic 'PDF_SEO_DISPOSABLE_LINK_FARM' suggests the document is designed to host numerous links on disposable domains, likely to obscure the true malicious destination. The embedded URLs, despite some being marked benign, contribute to the overall phishing or scam attempt.

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 http://www.pbttphtk.gov.my/sites/default/files/webform/33269367294.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://spotlight-sites.com/sites/default/files/webform/loboje.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.grotekeukens.be/sites/default/files/webform/gmawards2018/sakobonomoduriv.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.mothercare.ro/sites/default/files/webform/resumes/sojivezogi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.friendlycc.com/sites/default/files/webform/74296331991.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://aboss.by/sites/default/files/webform/76513539396.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.cdcplumbing.com/sites/default/files/webform/contact-us/sawifujemenolezaf.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.grotekeukens.be/sites/default/files/webform/gmawards2018/98751459569.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ambrose.edu/sites/default/files/webform/58234525485.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.telluridescience.org/sites/default/files/tstc-applications/kuvusuwube.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.woonsocketri.org/system/temporary/webform/viwubamonutimujogigifowi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://spotlight-sites.com/sites/default/files/webform/sugugijokasu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ambrose.edu/sites/default/files/webform/11364316539.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/cv9VXjIrmdE/uplcv?utm_term=microbiology+prescott+7th+editionPDF link annotation
    • https://minorsoncampus.princeton.edu/system/files/webform/kuwidiloj.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://thesanfordschool.asu.edu/sites/default/files/webform/43157208480.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://printandmail.princeton.edu/system/files/webform/85064040694.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_off0000c9d6.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xC9D6 5452 bytes
SHA-256: b486fd52f44c532de3abaa79be1f29df03ae2f487a0cafd0a467a66bf15c53af
font_01_sfnt_off0000dc6f.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xDC6F 10572 bytes
SHA-256: 866d22c4fbe04b7b6a141138c3a3645c8e8376ffed3181d5051be7054adbdd2e