Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 4ed19a1819aed31e…

MALICIOUS

PDF

72.0 KB Created: 2021-04-21 12:35:32 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7) First seen: 2021-05-29
MD5: 59c4a35cdffb63f68d2af357405c65dd SHA-1: 851f7851a7bdf436e69cdf4add829eb5512b9982 SHA-256: 4ed19a1819aed31ece42c17985e675d754d13d5b40b963883ad7560b7faa48a1
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 high likelihood of malicious intent. The heuristic 'PDF_SEO_DISPOSABLE_LINK_FARM' suggests the document is designed to host links on disposable domains, likely for phishing or malware distribution. The embedded URLs, particularly the one associated with the link farm, point to suspicious domains that could serve as landing pages for malicious content.

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.uts.cw/sites/default/files/webform/bofuwidesuxugebogaxa.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://www.guninetwork.org/system/files/webform/heirri_proposals/74543186253.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.jwico.com/sites/default/files/webform/vuvosiritixulufanili.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.visitsavannah.com/sites/default/files/webform/mubojezelu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ambrose.edu/sites/default/files/webform/93854264345.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://klm3fg.grhosting.cz/sites/default/files/webform/files/16831560309.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.visitsavannah.com/sites/default/files/webform/nodarinit.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://seiary.com/sites/default/files/webform/rec/6045441545.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.birdlifebotswana.org.bw/sites/default/files/webform/sightings-sketches/fipeforivu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.jsif.org/sites/default/files/webform/94808830073.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://aboss.by/sites/default/files/webform/tatesejozamelifat.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.mothercare.ro/sites/default/files/webform/resumes/28941778760.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=cambridge+preparation+for+the+toefl+test+fourth+edition+audio+cds+downloadPDF link annotation
    • https://ec.europa.eu/eip/agriculture/sites/default/files/webform/44438097533.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_off0000d6b7.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xD6B7 5708 bytes
SHA-256: 6750e6d6de35ef1c5978228fde54824978082bdbc4a49c177bc66e8ad837413e
font_01_sfnt_off0000e9fe.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xE9FE 11328 bytes
SHA-256: 4dc7f2414284890a0eea00555b217eca55293b1f3b64d3c57d11704ec7a9d9c0

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