Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 47d9112a4efdbefa…

MALICIOUS

PDF

79.0 KB Created: 2021-04-14 15:48:17 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7) First seen: 2021-05-26
MD5: 4411d84c035b6e5a3f160c724252ff86 SHA-1: 25417323cb3560673134a69286bbaa4a68e0f6b6 SHA-256: 47d9112a4efdbefa34fd2c025c80bfa81e34edc3734cf87d8947021dec058f6b
126 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF file was detected as malicious by ClamAV and an ML classifier, indicating a high likelihood of malicious intent. The presence of numerous embedded URLs, some pointing to potentially disposable domains and exhibiting link farm characteristics, suggests a phishing or redirection scheme. Although no scripts were explicitly extracted, the PDF structure and heuristic firings point towards the exploitation of PDF vulnerabilities or the embedding of malicious content to redirect users to external sites.

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.enwidth.com/sites/default/files/webform/resumes/90018929780.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://www.pbttphtk.gov.my/sites/default/files/webform/42283273604.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ambrose.edu/sites/default/files/webform/ginigiwosumomigari.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.mothercare.ro/sites/default/files/webform/resumes/tawapiseligimagawawujimo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ambrose.edu/sites/default/files/webform/2306024917.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.enwidth.com/sites/default/files/webform/resumes/43403042061.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.pbttphtk.gov.my/sites/default/files/webform/32056102714.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.osgeurope.com/sites/osg-corporate.dev/files/webform/3563422068.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.uts.cw/sites/default/files/webform/tizodakemepegipupimegoxi.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
    • https://www.blplegal.com/sites/default/files/webform/vogelunejubujapezidugave.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ambrose.edu/sites/default/files/webform/59680287402.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.a1touchsolution.nl/sites/default/files/51131620028.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/BvfzZFkJO3s/uplcv?utm_term=4+fotos+1+palabra+nivel+434PDF link annotation
    • https://campusrec.princeton.edu/system/files/webform/jelozubunumi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://printandmail.princeton.edu/system/files/webform/68272747422.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://campusrec.princeton.edu/system/files/webform/16616798570.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
    • http://dejavu.sourceforge.netIn PDF document text
    • http://dejavu.sourceforge.net/wiki/index.php/LicenseIn PDF document text

Extracted artifacts 3

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
font_00_sfnt_off0000df48.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xDF48 5304 bytes
SHA-256: 824fd1402e6a0f7d7f7cbf59d97df8f4ef86775a189a83d99ec1807a9a7b4edb
font_01_sfnt_off0000f174.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF174 11624 bytes
SHA-256: 2bc4fb746ef4e6d3a9a4e09195afbb81019e7d3684666eaaac5003ae7714ca19
font_02_sfnt_off0001177a.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x1177A 16312 bytes
SHA-256: 975089639afea594160f6daa1ae948ffc4125994d61a9fd32dce02580f7b6b15