Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 58e6dae3e74dca5e…

MALICIOUS

PDF

87.3 KB Created: 2021-04-15 17:04:52 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7) First seen: 2021-10-27
MD5: 204cdfb3c5a65cbf5dea703408318afb SHA-1: 3833add21f53357eb9ca854b99840fb1ddfc42cb SHA-256: 58e6dae3e74dca5e72c39c4a5a05ca39eb5df2b5a4ff075aab654194c409dbf3
134 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The file is a PDF document flagged by ML classifiers and ClamAV as malicious, specifically as a phishing trojan. It contains numerous embedded URLs, many of which point to disposable or potentially malicious domains, and exhibits characteristics of a link farm. The presence of a 'download button' heuristic further suggests a lure to trick users into clicking on these links, likely to download a second-stage payload or redirect to a phishing site.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9998

Heuristics 6

  • 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.
  • Visual download / call-to-action button lure low SE_DOWNLOAD_BUTTON
    Document contains a call-to-action phrase ('Click here to download', 'Download Now', etc.) — low-signal unless other findings point to a malicious workflow
  • 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/suvexaxobufakup.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://cicatsalud.com/html/sites/default/files/webform/68038126183.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://grossenbacher.co.nz/en/system/files/avoidance-training-certificates/bekam.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.telluridescience.org/sites/default/files/tstc-applications/fezijorimofilafomifum.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.enwidth.com/sites/default/files/webform/resumes/lerudaxalopavowurugepoviw.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.osgeurope.com/sites/osg-corporate.dev/files/webform/10654010608.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.cdcplumbing.com/sites/default/files/webform/contact-us/sawifujemenolezaf.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.jwico.com/sites/default/files/webform/49109440539.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.telluridescience.org/sites/default/files/tstc-applications/pagasumoxozodaxatukaliwus.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ambrose.edu/sites/default/files/webform/58588935603.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.pbttphtk.gov.my/sites/default/files/webform/73261430544.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.natsihwa.org.au/sites/default/files/webform/42406093886.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.muttypawsacademy.com/sites/default/files/webform/vaccines/nojezajewi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.pharoxglobal.com/sites/default/files/webform/garuwofewitenobakufenewi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://russian-ice-spb.ru/sites/default/files/webform/files/zatepatepekaberemosigedix.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/Uplcv/~3/DOqCt-cVA4I/uplcv?utm_term=sundance+optima+880+pricePDF link annotation
    • https://minorsoncampus.princeton.edu/system/files/webform/vogifowisawab.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://printandmail.princeton.edu/system/files/webform/zupedofijemurak.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://umatter.princeton.edu/system/files/webform/requests/tutoturabawukaxubudevodor.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.vub.be/sites/vub/files/webform/16824703900.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_off00011756.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x11756 5448 bytes
SHA-256: c1b898d82b6a18c2fe7c7af0e8e137e28c4662900cc1eae2011f018f3a8e0b2c
font_01_sfnt_off000129ce.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x129CE 11296 bytes
SHA-256: 25ce2704ed991cf1e0841e6909cc2badcf1e8a98bdaf85814b6cf1b3b7ac3d94