Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 571cb5f5d79783cd…

MALICIOUS

PDF

81.0 KB Created: 2021-04-14 09:24:48 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7) First seen: 2021-05-29
MD5: 775b1c4e4fd666af19f8b2e31415601e SHA-1: 3bf90428059cc147213615051aef8b2dd634b6ee SHA-256: 571cb5f5d79783cd79d06ac1930dd03ae32f7c9c0b38f19f5daf666f8a2a34b1
126 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF file was flagged as malicious by a machine learning classifier and ClamAV, indicating a high likelihood of malicious intent. The document body, though heavily obfuscated, contains text related to software installation, suggesting a lure to trick users. The presence of numerous external URIs, some pointing to potentially disposable hosting, further supports a phishing or malware distribution scheme.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9996

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/bemefunojupupik.pdf In PDF document text
    • https://www.natsihwa.org.au/sites/default/files/webform/17947704001.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.muttypawsacademy.com/sites/default/files/webform/vaccines/95859103094.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.blplegal.com/sites/default/files/webform/julojulixizegusu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.sumnercountyhospital.org/sites/default/files/webform/sixativitav.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.muttypawsacademy.com/sites/default/files/webform/vaccines/37570077738.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.natsihwa.org.au/sites/default/files/webform/xugapovapoz.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://vectorcorp.net/sites/default/files/webform/resume/30106672217.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.enwidth.com/sites/default/files/webform/resumes/48862039041.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.pbttphtk.gov.my/sites/default/files/webform/73261430544.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.enwidth.com/sites/default/files/webform/resumes/43403042061.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/~3/1xuhb7AK25c/uplcv?utm_term=como+instalar+arcgis+10.3+con+crackPDF link annotation
    • https://ec.europa.eu/eip/agriculture/sites/default/files/webform/9071701793.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://printandmail.princeton.edu/system/files/webform/fasulegok.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://campusrec.princeton.edu/system/files/webform/febapaxugodikuzakepob.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 4

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
font_00_sfnt_off0000d846.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xD846 4388 bytes
SHA-256: 190811d1bf2db1db868903a6b23e2af319d54dbc02576958978d330ee0653035
font_01_sfnt_off0000e7a4.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xE7A4 5476 bytes
SHA-256: ff3724724e8991c1a7bfb40df756d3d9897abc216ad4e23ce570ccf1de0981c8
font_02_sfnt_off0000fa33.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xFA33 11148 bytes
SHA-256: 0257976d70a20ff951ca2d7b80e8cb7214146fbfef79313315fc7439f9e01ff0
font_03_sfnt_off00011f22.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x11F22 16204 bytes
SHA-256: 532315dfdc59b350d447ad91845dd8cc72a836e684f536ab9a4305dc5b53fb8e