Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 46b0f1fa71a3229a…

MALICIOUS

PDF

72.4 KB Created: 2021-04-12 22:58:25 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7) First seen: 2021-06-13
MD5: 31d9e5c3b9c04d645c0141757cfbab60 SHA-1: b37ec9ca9b5c9128a6cd01effbdbaf8249aa1228 SHA-256: 46b0f1fa71a3229a33a3c194cea2d0870c2af96e03ac1b6377edb9d8aa8aa660
126 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF contains numerous embedded URLs, many pointing to domains that appear to be part of a link farm, as indicated by the PDF_SEO_DISPOSABLE_LINK_FARM heuristic. The ML classifier and ClamAV detection strongly suggest malicious intent, likely for phishing or distributing further malware. The document body is heavily obfuscated and unreadable, but the presence of many links and the heuristic firings point to a malicious link farm strategy.

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://www.natsihwa.org.au/sites/default/files/webform/xugapovapoz.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://spotlight-sites.com/sites/default/files/webform/4279473489.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.ofalloncasting.com/sites/default/files/webform/68138040624.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.muttypawsacademy.com/sites/default/files/webform/vaccines/2944445507.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.uts.cw/sites/default/files/webform/96040264728.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://portal-mysigma.com/system/files/student-proof/9555400870.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.friendlycc.com/sites/default/files/webform/mitiporaju.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/In PDF document text
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/typedesigners.htmlIn PDF document text
    • http://www.daltonmaag.com/In PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/1eyvgo/aqOO/~3/A3Ryygt5BCM/uplcv?utm_term=2014+chevy+cruze+diesel+reviewPDF link annotation
    • https://www.vub.be/sites/vub/files/webform/fazarixi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://drones.princeton.edu/system/files/webform/65601020807.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://campusrec.princeton.edu/system/files/webform/jelozubunumi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.healthdata.org/sites/default/files/resumes/nufimogunuzin.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.healthdata.org/sites/default/files/resumes/muvebijamalixodimobowase.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://printandmail.princeton.edu/system/files/webform/98467125123.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 3

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
font_00_sfnt_off0000d323.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xD323 5024 bytes
SHA-256: caca38a6cb345f1ef1a0158fb348741d642af6b8b34d07ca211c8dadc5a29d57
font_01_sfnt_off0000e466.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xE466 10044 bytes
SHA-256: 1d9f69d2e19c1b3bf22508ded8b0bdd520697d84bdbbd6f972a0c30fb26b95fe
font_02_sfnt_off000106c2.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x106C2 4324 bytes
SHA-256: ff5f0ef16caf3e97cd1984b3a03ea88e11eab8cf63d2ee006085a4b9995833f3