Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 61fb33c0a2d9b6c6…

MALICIOUS

PDF

77.1 KB Created: 2021-04-22 23:27:02 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7) First seen: 2021-06-28
MD5: d21b3d9f0f439c127dafa71e987cbcb3 SHA-1: 9a3035fa9b1fa2a0e49871df936ea211df3cb5f2 SHA-256: 61fb33c0a2d9b6c68ee51509ec622bc2bfb9813c55b1b9126dee0ff6232051b9
126 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF file contains numerous embedded URLs, many of which point to suspicious domains or are structured in a way that suggests a link farm. The ML classifier and ClamAV detection strongly indicate malicious intent, likely for phishing or malware delivery. Although no scripts were explicitly extracted, the PDF structure and embedded links suggest an attempt to redirect the user to a malicious site.

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.dgs-interparts.be/sites/default/files/xufatonapa.pdf In PDF document text
    • https://aboss.by/sites/default/files/webform/vobefoxejajizagosoberob.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://klm3fg.grhosting.cz/sites/default/files/webform/files/mimixinaxeralowevowijut.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://spotlight-sites.com/sites/default/files/webform/4279473489.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://russian-ice-spb.ru/sites/default/files/webform/files/42282539280.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.guninetwork.org/system/files/webform/heirri_proposals/35039450578.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.ofalloncasting.com/sites/default/files/webform/66890294103.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.osgeurope.com/sites/osg-corporate.dev/files/webform/10654010608.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ambrose.edu/sites/default/files/webform/zateguzafafidefezibexe.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://aboss.by/sites/default/files/webform/12404161593.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://oaklandchildcare.org/sites/default/files/webform/bidepe.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://architecturaldesigninc.com/sites/default/files/56675633315.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.a1touchsolution.nl/sites/default/files/larigujumikanezazezogiwi.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/A3Ryygt5BCM/uplcv?utm_term=combined+gas+law+practice+sheetPDF link annotation
    • https://ubmemeaensoprod.s3.amazonaws.com/ifsec_international/call_for_papers/2021/03/60395266702.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://printandmail.princeton.edu/system/files/webform/mizol.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ubmemeaensoprod.s3.amazonaws.com/ifsec_international/call_for_papers/2021/03/86402477901.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_off0000efe2.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xEFE2 5624 bytes
SHA-256: d86d89adbee2ebf089f31b43cae8229a9f48177c751d445f9c5c053231475a71
font_01_sfnt_off000102da.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x102DA 10840 bytes
SHA-256: 57c58dff1a4ec1301bb89d9a4f10eccdb3ee3cff272c28320efa2a844dbd1f20