Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 63b58762ea6fb1e4…

MALICIOUS

PDF

76.3 KB Created: 2021-04-11 14:30:22 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7) First seen: 2021-06-30
MD5: 618174efcb9f2ad455966a1e18c6db62 SHA-1: 81a1fcb02d46ce0f8a1186a4d0faa73b2559dbac SHA-256: 63b58762ea6fb1e4dfee9ca02b21ef2d53201fe76dbfdd2e8af2c99327c5dc7c
134 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF contains numerous embedded URLs, with one heuristic specifically identifying it as a link farm on disposable hosting. The ML classifier and ClamAV detection strongly indicate malicious intent, likely phishing or malware distribution. While no scripts were directly extracted, the PDF structure and URL patterns suggest it's designed to redirect users to malicious content or download further payloads.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9998

Heuristics 6

  • 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.
  • Visual download / call-to-action button lure low SE_DOWNLOAD_BUTTON
    Document contains a call-to-action phrase ('Click here to download', 'Download Now', etc.) — low-signal unless other findings point to a malicious workflow
  • 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://aboss.by/sites/default/files/webform/10891008032.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://cicatsalud.com/html/sites/default/files/webform/32675510575.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.guninetwork.org/system/files/webform/heirri_proposals/nuxikovevevugodir.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://architecturaldesigninc.com/sites/default/files/vudezuluxi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://oaklandchildcare.org/sites/default/files/webform/80411930416.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://russian-ice-spb.ru/sites/default/files/webform/files/fapulewamekunasu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.jwico.com/sites/default/files/webform/vuvosiritixulufanili.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.jts.org.jo/sites/default/files/webform/76938035167.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.jwico.com/sites/default/files/webform/47965191786.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=cartagena+colombia+travel+guidePDF link annotation
    • https://gradfutures.princeton.edu/system/files/webform/xafuzekimizitigemuseli.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ubmemeaensoprod.s3.amazonaws.com/ifsec_international/call_for_papers/2021/03/kizoromafogikigogusebef.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://campusrec.princeton.edu/system/files/webform/febapaxugodikuzakepob.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.ice.cam.ac.uk/sites/www.ice.cam.ac.uk/files/webform/tivajojisepizoni.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://campusrec.princeton.edu/system/files/webform/4552140304.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://lib.asu.edu/system/files/webform/rutepirunumobapof.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_off0000eafe.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xEAFE 5188 bytes
SHA-256: d1210d8408c295b01f22cc0dd1981c9b3d0139fb958ee146d67e0b8494f60238
font_01_sfnt_off0000fc8e.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xFC8E 11488 bytes
SHA-256: cf7d65fc7015f9c63e683ae4da669e62ae4cbfee71ede1fb25d63f2c727531cf