Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 5e734e4efef6fe9d…

MALICIOUS

PDF

79.2 KB Created: 2021-04-14 20:27:57 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7) First seen: 2021-05-26
MD5: 58c00825899e401e7137a87548a4a020 SHA-1: 0eb3877a7b7450c44d50ecc0f86d179e9193b78e SHA-256: 5e734e4efef6fe9de8c5ab81bfdad197bdcab41c3ca0e7ba294e305cf47d9717
126 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

This PDF document was flagged as malicious by ML classifiers and ClamAV, indicating a phishing or trojan payload. It contains numerous external links, many pointing to disposable domains, suggesting a link farm used to redirect users to malicious sites. While no scripts were explicitly extracted, the PDF structure and heuristic firings suggest it is designed to exploit vulnerabilities or redirect users to malicious content, likely as part of a phishing campaign.

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://ambrose.edu/sites/default/files/webform/bunovodedodasu.pdf In PDF document text
    • https://www.natsihwa.org.au/sites/default/files/webform/xugapovapoz.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.muttypawsacademy.com/sites/default/files/webform/vaccines/40041164747.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://oaklandchildcare.org/sites/default/files/webform/70037852461.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.jwico.com/sites/default/files/webform/minokoniniwige.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.birdlifebotswana.org.bw/sites/default/files/webform/sightings-sketches/13349970620.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.afscme65.org/system/files/webform/96479551545.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.enwidth.com/sites/default/files/webform/resumes/bemefunojupupik.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.pbttphtk.gov.my/sites/default/files/webform/32056102714.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.a1touchsolution.nl/sites/default/files/larigujumikanezazezogiwi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.ofalloncasting.com/sites/default/files/webform/dapajinosez.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/~3/1KS0DP0cxss/uplcv?utm_term=s%25C3%25B6z+sanatlar%25C4%25B1+konu+anlat%25C4%25B1m%25C4%25B1+ve+%25C3%25B6rnekleriPDF link annotation
    • https://thesanfordschool.asu.edu/sites/default/files/webform/83703622856.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://minorsoncampus.princeton.edu/system/files/webform/posilo.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_off0000f555.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF555 5280 bytes
SHA-256: fac17ac4e6dfdd6bb8ccde2cf6c4e739afb038ce7cb5fc96b3a2ffbcb27b754d
font_01_sfnt_off00010701.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x10701 12516 bytes
SHA-256: 4b4f1c7cbe48a7c4afd792d66f5fdc981109ff44324f17e3e9a6fd1e556756bb