Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 603c9ef5a7f69628…

MALICIOUS

PDF

69.9 KB Created: 2021-04-26 08:17:26 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7) First seen: 2021-05-29
MD5: cbade44b6196e62efb4b2a13e126a853 SHA-1: 77c64133a3918b2f14a54f139801ba081cdc9266 SHA-256: 603c9ef5a7f696282a84d71bc5c4ca11363e0ff77f5abe89700f9fc710f89093
126 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF file was identified as malicious by ML classifiers and ClamAV, indicating a phishing or trojan payload. The heuristic 'PDF_SEO_DISPOSABLE_LINK_FARM' and the presence of numerous embedded URLs suggest a tactic to redirect users to potentially harmful sites. Although no scripts were explicitly extracted, the nature of the embedded links and the overall detection points towards an attempt to exploit users through deceptive content.

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 https://www.mothercare.ro/sites/default/files/webform/resumes/49428740932.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://www.grotekeukens.be/sites/default/files/webform/gmawards2018/45910982832.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://pilgrimland.com/sites/default/files/webform/resume-uploads/jitebetususi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://vectorcorp.net/sites/default/files/webform/resume/92207600326.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.jsif.org/sites/default/files/webform/vinuriruxelapaviwona.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.guninetwork.org/system/files/webform/heirri_proposals/35039450578.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.telluridescience.org/sites/default/files/tstc-applications/30232074114.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://web.liderpapel.com/sites/default/files/webform/wavunivuzabanovomid.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.jsif.org/sites/default/files/webform/95147346690.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://klm3fg.grhosting.cz/sites/default/files/webform/files/6948618973.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.jsif.org/sites/default/files/webform/meratasadif.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://seiary.com/sites/default/files/webform/rec/wugibizipudaxejomite.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://vectorcorp.net/sites/default/files/webform/resume/dofivefodazewinewes.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/Om9ozkHLxGw/uplcv?utm_term=shark+navigator+lift+away+professional+vs+deluxePDF link annotation
    • https://gradfutures.princeton.edu/system/files/webform/xafuzekimizitigemuseli.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.healthdata.org/sites/default/files/resumes/18848190838.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_off0000d0ea.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xD0EA 5792 bytes
SHA-256: b1a95289f4ff5f71cbb57ccf3d6203d819f42b8be7e618f5a3f974a34edb5c24
font_01_sfnt_off0000e4bd.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xE4BD 10784 bytes
SHA-256: 8d582a191e2b0e9a08efe4530f3435b63beb12e957ade1ba6819b296da6c1a7e

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