Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 466cc99b0a75b28b…

MALICIOUS

PDF

78.8 KB Created: 2021-04-18 02:53:12 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7) First seen: 2021-05-29
MD5: b9c0ba66a3aff99ab6e133fbd61be38a SHA-1: de5f2c930a437c5c02b4e4ba9d12e036bf536d2c SHA-256: 466cc99b0a75b28b81f95363abdc0f43a5d5178052a4b6db443dd191ff566683
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 unknown or potentially malicious domains, suggesting a link farm designed to redirect users. The ML classifier and ClamAV detection strongly indicate malicious intent. While no scripts were explicitly extracted, the PDF structure and embedded links are consistent with phishing or malware distribution campaigns.

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.enwidth.com/sites/default/files/webform/resumes/17232120942.pdf In PDF document text
    • https://architecturaldesigninc.com/sites/default/files/36110977311.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://web.liderpapel.com/sites/default/files/webform/xikamiwaboloz.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://extranet.blanchisserie-toulousaine-de-sante.com/sites/extranet.blanchisserie-toulousaine-de-sante.com/files/documents/justificatifs/ziseriwutekezarog.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://klm3fg.grhosting.cz/sites/default/files/webform/files/40110328039.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/21691652676.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.ofalloncasting.com/sites/default/files/webform/34904816646.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/1eyvgo/aqOO/~3/A3Ryygt5BCM/uplcv?utm_term=song+of+swords+remnantPDF link annotation
    • https://campusrec.princeton.edu/system/files/webform/putiwokareviwe.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.ice.cam.ac.uk/sites/www.ice.cam.ac.uk/files/webform/7842358922.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.healthdata.org/sites/default/files/resumes/mevupuxapiledowitire.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_off0000f691.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF691 5392 bytes
SHA-256: 96b6ebbe6a8c8e35262ab73fed1ef89a7d62e0778cdaf8c5b5505b47fed3081d
font_01_sfnt_off000108e1.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x108E1 10800 bytes
SHA-256: 2de86c3ca8e0ca7df01095987c05357cba8b47f3137d5928301229e3ae01b536