Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 56e3a0fcde8d3f9f…

MALICIOUS

PDF

70.3 KB Created: 2021-04-23 14:00:29 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7) First seen: 2021-05-26
MD5: b7d45c51867bdc0c3a635387459741ed SHA-1: 297a6ceec63349df9ab7c944fea9ea6009fc9e1e SHA-256: 56e3a0fcde8d3f9f029cdde645d70f6fb50ea630365e4e2f1154a09c07adecc6
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, indicating a high likelihood of malicious intent. The document body, though heavily obfuscated, suggests a lure related to 'electrical power and energy calculations worksheet answers'. The presence of numerous external URLs, many hosted on disposable domains and configured as link farms, strongly suggests a phishing or malware distribution campaign. No scripts were extracted, but the PDF structure and URL patterns are indicative of a malicious document.

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.jwico.com/sites/default/files/webform/xojisipet.pdf In PDF document text
    • https://www.uts.cw/sites/default/files/webform/dupoxemijuwavamuvugorudiz.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.enwidth.com/sites/default/files/webform/resumes/lerudaxalopavowurugepoviw.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.jts.org.jo/sites/default/files/webform/86196288468.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://vectorcorp.net/sites/default/files/webform/resume/86303695333.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.sumnercountyhospital.org/sites/default/files/webform/xubapubawaral.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ambrose.edu/sites/default/files/webform/49323480199.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.natsihwa.org.au/sites/default/files/webform/19026354442.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.osgeurope.com/sites/osg-corporate.dev/files/webform/zizepuniket.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://klm3fg.grhosting.cz/sites/default/files/webform/files/30253637425.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://web.liderpapel.com/sites/default/files/webform/wavunivuzabanovomid.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.blplegal.com/sites/default/files/webform/58709767715.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/In PDF document text
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/typedesigners.htmlIn PDF document text
    • http://www.daltonmaag.com/In PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/skout/mBVl/~3/zMnd8XtcwSM/uplcv?utm_term=electrical+power+and+energy+calculations+worksheet+answersPDF link annotation
    • 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 3

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
font_00_sfnt_off0000c893.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xC893 5432 bytes
SHA-256: ba965d5e843983a815217fbae58abf5bbe071d504e638cd706b0979ce5a08431
font_01_sfnt_off0000db14.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xDB14 10416 bytes
SHA-256: 0ba5f0efd91cb2d9329499c8cd5feb28a2997beba9e277206937608f3dce6456
font_02_sfnt_off0000fe4e.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xFE4E 4324 bytes
SHA-256: d1f4a20f0e35a0564be54678b929bb8c711862c507f070c2b9a6abea8daf4378

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