Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 47c21f0c3f48a2db…

MALICIOUS

PDF

68.6 KB Created: 2021-04-11 02:31:01 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7) First seen: 2021-05-23
MD5: 26ea03df91ba9a6ac3f2a2c2ea2240a8 SHA-1: 332101201c3403016f5945c78e39f65f3aa8a2ed SHA-256: 47c21f0c3f48a2db1905f9dd4313524555e9db2e95f49a4e3de00b9e9169c2d8
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, specifically as a phishing trojan. It contains numerous embedded URLs, many of which point to unknown or potentially malicious domains, suggesting an attempt to redirect users to harmful content. The presence of PDF-specific heuristics like 'PDF_SEO_DISPOSABLE_LINK_FARM' further supports a malicious intent to obscure the true destination or purpose.

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.muttypawsacademy.com/sites/default/files/webform/vaccines/40041164747.pdf In PDF document text
    • https://www.dgs-interparts.be/sites/default/files/bipaxuvimul.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.pacificsportfraservalley.com/sites/default/files/webform/banofamuwidobekoke.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://natsihwa.org.au/sites/default/files/webform/mufuwujaxerafesa.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.ofalloncasting.com/sites/default/files/webform/gegemapoxazokex.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://web.liderpapel.com/sites/default/files/webform/xikamiwaboloz.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ambrose.edu/sites/default/files/webform/durigoxilakomisi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ambrose.edu/sites/default/files/webform/gewematumupam.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://klm3fg.grhosting.cz/sites/default/files/webform/files/30253637425.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/~3/1KS0DP0cxss/uplcv?utm_term=backroom+casting+erinPDF link annotation
    • https://printandmail.princeton.edu/system/files/webform/50156150340.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ec.europa.eu/eip/agriculture/sites/default/files/webform/76225898136.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://community.princeton.edu/system/files/webform/boranewibutafale.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.healthdata.org/sites/default/files/resumes/nufimogunuzin.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://gradfutures.princeton.edu/system/files/webform/16157352895.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://community.princeton.edu/system/files/webform/42655509772.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_off0000d05a.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xD05A 5200 bytes
SHA-256: a4b520a848f8940e7ae9fac2fa4647d183a965c6bf85d1eed2becb8b94206217
font_01_sfnt_off0000e1f9.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xE1F9 10792 bytes
SHA-256: 54750fd8349dd1a9acaf104655313fce06e98485228546d1ef2ddc826d9cd4da