Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 444401e65b9eb650…

MALICIOUS

PDF

69.0 KB Created: 2021-04-25 21:24:45 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7) First seen: 2021-05-29
MD5: 8c7c258b3e0c82beca2bbccca68fabc2 SHA-1: 7bfe7dad2921b00eb5d04baf933beef214f41866 SHA-256: 444401e65b9eb6504ea458bf3699405afad02a97735978ec4a51e8acc3713f03
126 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF file was flagged by ML classifiers and ClamAV as malicious, indicating a phishing or malware distribution attempt. It contains numerous embedded URLs, many of which point to seemingly legitimate domains but are structured to appear as form submissions or downloads, a common lure for phishing. The presence of PDF_SEO_DISPOSABLE_LINK_FARM heuristic suggests the document is part of a link farm designed to obscure malicious intent.

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://ambrose.edu/sites/default/files/webform/42416127327.pdf In PDF document text
    • https://www.telluridescience.org/sites/default/files/tstc-applications/dadesiludidogujuta.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.muttypawsacademy.com/sites/default/files/webform/vaccines/30199048500.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.ofalloncasting.com/sites/default/files/webform/geguridafaj.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://cicatsalud.com/html/sites/default/files/webform/17654710786.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.natsihwa.org.au/sites/default/files/webform/42406093886.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ambrose.edu/sites/default/files/webform/xixarujopotagateregigo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.a1touchsolution.nl/sites/default/files/dovav.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.dgs-interparts.be/sites/default/files/68462010443.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/fzgW7-mxBc0/uplcv?utm_term=leveluk+sd501+maintenancePDF link annotation
    • https://gradfutures.princeton.edu/system/files/webform/fumegefexuwonadijot.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://community.princeton.edu/system/files/webform/36479690150.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://thesanfordschool.asu.edu/sites/default/files/webform/lezedatabamivija.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.healthdata.org/sites/default/files/resumes/58023923203.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_off0000d094.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xD094 5372 bytes
SHA-256: 16b02876a6b6a5e50601d8b8fff7015ed6d22e385943285ee4038ec371f434a1
font_01_sfnt_off0000e2e2.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xE2E2 10588 bytes
SHA-256: ec8fdbc8bf57e832629b1d17f6b95fe8b614c52fabc6535120e09effb979e7c5

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