Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 5f167cade5a7e071…

MALICIOUS

PDF

75.9 KB Created: 2021-04-23 16:30:57 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7) First seen: 2021-05-29
MD5: d6e543473dcf8fd798893508b5e5df18 SHA-1: bb6e51f209e90ae7b354f0b98172b2e6515eb545 SHA-256: 5f167cade5a7e071644c2c58c356a33561373ab61f291c4f0029d48a3a693509
126 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF contains numerous embedded URLs pointing to various domains, many of which are structured as link farms. The heuristic 'PDF_SEO_DISPOSABLE_LINK_FARM' strongly suggests a malicious intent to redirect users to potentially harmful content. ClamAV also detected this file as 'Pdf.Phishing.Trojan'. No scripts were extracted, but the structure and URL patterns indicate a phishing or malware distribution attempt.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9998

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 http://pilgrimland.com/sites/default/files/webform/resume-uploads/52872338461.pdf In PDF document text
    • https://www.jwico.com/sites/default/files/webform/69174909787.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ambrose.edu/sites/default/files/webform/7968200385.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://grossenbacher.co.nz/en/system/files/avoidance-training-certificates/22559513310.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://oaklandchildcare.org/sites/default/files/webform/26688185713.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ambrose.edu/sites/default/files/webform/82598578892.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.mothercare.ro/sites/default/files/webform/resumes/susumijifiwef.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ambrose.edu/sites/default/files/webform/seliruni.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/~3/6naE_Nh8_CY/uplcv?utm_term=sigmund+freud+psychoanalytic+theory+bookPDF link annotation
    • https://lib.asu.edu/system/files/webform/sikukuditizituxabisezopel.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.vub.be/sites/vub/files/webform/ludazerubadariwevulefaxu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://community.princeton.edu/system/files/webform/tujuxegagisezemesolut.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_off0000ea34.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xEA34 5980 bytes
SHA-256: 4517ebdfc4bfde33742c4d997ee1f76c31e90eeed495b6bdf48f4bf86a280eed
font_01_sfnt_off0000fe6e.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xFE6E 10788 bytes
SHA-256: b09bce35f1fdd7432d0fbd3a44ddbc948642d772951e4a5231a1e6d1c7383bf6

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