Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 4d0df4472de2c070…

MALICIOUS

PDF

74.0 KB Created: 2021-04-11 10:51:20 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7) First seen: 2021-05-29
MD5: 3fddde45b00677e7a97cd5dd1e375e15 SHA-1: 0f06acfc66cd927d74de261f3532c872e8a0f091 SHA-256: 4d0df4472de2c0707a839188d1124f57ba0f6c232c0ef648450167cb54f34f68
126 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF file was detected as malicious by ML classifiers and ClamAV, indicating a phishing or trojan payload. It contains numerous embedded URLs, many of which point to domains that appear to be part of a link farm, suggesting a phishing or credential harvesting attempt. The document body, though heavily obfuscated, contains text related to 'Skyrim racemenu presets female', likely a lure to attract users to click on the malicious links.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9998

Heuristics 5

  • ClamAV: Pdf.Phishing.Trojan-d2528dad23a95d95-d2528dad23a95d95-10044376-0 critical CLAMAV_DETECTION
    ClamAV detected this file as malware: Pdf.Phishing.Trojan-d2528dad23a95d95-d2528dad23a95d95-10044376-0
  • 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://portal-mysigma.com/system/files/student-proof/pifudolaloxafedotodela.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://pilgrimland.com/sites/default/files/webform/resume-uploads/jokefogebefuzifuzew.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://aboss.by/sites/default/files/webform/80384466065.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.jwico.com/sites/default/files/webform/49109440539.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.jsif.org/sites/default/files/webform/95147346690.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.a1touchsolution.nl/sites/default/files/xofarazenufokedakuzos.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ambrose.edu/sites/default/files/webform/61391242106.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ambrose.edu/sites/default/files/webform/82598578892.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.enwidth.com/sites/default/files/webform/resumes/58607877977.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=skyrim+racemenu+presets+femalePDF link annotation
    • https://gradfutures.princeton.edu/system/files/webform/49692556615.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://lib.asu.edu/system/files/webform/vabomabexajamoja.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://printandmail.princeton.edu/system/files/webform/98467125123.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://printandmail.princeton.edu/system/files/webform/83605599331.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://printandmail.princeton.edu/system/files/webform/26360011081.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_off0000e4e6.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xE4E6 5432 bytes
SHA-256: 8ee67f74043b62bfbc1e1a15e281a674323b61dbbb283258cf9c73dc011569c8
font_01_sfnt_off0000f754.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF754 10756 bytes
SHA-256: 99a520a299ea1013c58a8273f0d59ef9d194d76d381af2168877ea49acc2fab0