Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 5488e6060d545ca1…

MALICIOUS

PDF

71.1 KB Created: 2021-04-10 21:56:30 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7) First seen: 2021-05-29
MD5: c72b66118380507b85a7e36a77ca4a94 SHA-1: 7ec45e88d95d093ad97658675582d0351fb455b8 SHA-256: 5488e6060d545ca123416d0a542dd4494dbd39622928538cba9cc43fdd72992e
126 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The sample is a PDF file flagged by ML classifiers and ClamAV as malicious, specifically as a phishing trojan. It contains numerous embedded URLs, many of which point to potentially malicious domains disguised as legitimate file-sharing or webform submissions. The document body, though heavily obfuscated, suggests a lure related to an 'Athletic works manual caminadora', indicating a phishing or scam attempt to redirect users to these URLs.

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.a1touchsolution.nl/sites/default/files/togivem.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://portal-mysigma.com/system/files/student-proof/72808970040.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://cicatsalud.com/html/sites/default/files/webform/21030689395.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.blplegal.com/sites/default/files/webform/32112495638.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.ofalloncasting.com/sites/default/files/webform/tirudekamevajoluzagobumi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.sumnercountyhospital.org/sites/default/files/webform/sixativitav.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.grotekeukens.be/sites/default/files/webform/gmawards2018/41850888982.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.natsihwa.org.au/sites/default/files/webform/tesogiruzan.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ambrose.edu/sites/default/files/webform/99544266771.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://natsihwa.org.au/sites/default/files/webform/80931084074.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://extranet.blanchisserie-toulousaine-de-sante.com/sites/extranet.blanchisserie-toulousaine-de-sante.com/files/documents/justificatifs/vinoku.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.pbttphtk.gov.my/sites/default/files/webform/238550972.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://vectorcorp.net/sites/default/files/webform/resume/dofivefodazewinewes.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/1eyvgo/aqOO/~3/A3Ryygt5BCM/uplcv?utm_term=athletic+works+manual+caminadoraPDF link annotation
    • https://minorsoncampus.princeton.edu/system/files/webform/kuwidiloj.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ec.europa.eu/eip/agriculture/sites/default/files/webform/juvuwudonuvusenovirem.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://minorsoncampus.princeton.edu/system/files/webform/libovonudipiguriteg.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_off0000d4ae.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xD4AE 5324 bytes
SHA-256: 611dc7c754f500fbcbbab9500e85ffd96a6d655f70767b5824787793d6b8f291
font_01_sfnt_off0000e6aa.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xE6AA 12180 bytes
SHA-256: e05ffd438ed63861e333227d8441025e21a6a28e319d9dff501def07c311e40b