Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 5e8c09ee82cb086f…

MALICIOUS

PDF

68.6 KB Created: 2021-04-20 00:35:37 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7) First seen: 2021-06-30
MD5: 1926def3e977407991e4010e7b27c3b3 SHA-1: 9504425811ebcc4a8b02dd134239c151742f6130 SHA-256: 5e8c09ee82cb086f104f0bb15a0f099bed57e2330cb01d41c03f36c590533044
126 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF contains numerous embedded URLs, many of which point to potentially malicious or unknown domains, suggesting a link farm or phishing lure. The ML classifier and ClamAV detection strongly indicate malicious intent. Although no scripts were explicitly extracted, the PDF structure and embedded links are indicative of a phishing or malware distribution attempt, likely initiated via spearphishing.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9998

Heuristics 5

  • 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.
  • 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 http://oaklandchildcare.org/sites/default/files/webform/55178968397.pdf In PDF document text
    • https://www.a1touchsolution.nl/sites/default/files/dovav.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://architecturaldesigninc.com/sites/default/files/36110977311.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.natsihwa.org.au/sites/default/files/webform/lavajaruzapelusudixavu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ambrose.edu/sites/default/files/webform/9979090083.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.jsif.org/sites/default/files/webform/moridiwivomepagaduso.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.woonsocketri.org/system/temporary/webform/konoju.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.natsihwa.org.au/sites/default/files/webform/21073527915.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.natsihwa.org.au/sites/default/files/webform/setafemamuf.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.grotekeukens.be/sites/default/files/webform/gmawards2018/30150103061.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/ngfLrbzwjls/uplcv?utm_term=mr+coffee+coffee+mill+ids77+instructionsPDF link annotation
    • https://thesanfordschool.asu.edu/sites/default/files/webform/43157208480.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ec.europa.eu/eip/agriculture/sites/default/files/webform/66140853426.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://campusrec.princeton.edu/system/files/webform/jelozubunumi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.healthdata.org/sites/default/files/resumes/18848190838.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://printandmail.princeton.edu/system/files/webform/98467125123.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_off0000d091.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xD091 5044 bytes
SHA-256: 6a571f79b1bc7b9ade113b5524e9976fa1d707ade7826ec0c7702fe7cb709833
font_01_sfnt_off0000e1ba.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xE1BA 10824 bytes
SHA-256: 4c45edc6d4c2ccfd48acde1b2f7beb5e016a322169a279225dec8982a19dba0c

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