Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 64b2ec34b0026067…

MALICIOUS

PDF

86.0 KB Created: 2021-04-06 18:49:23 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7) First seen: 2021-06-04
MD5: 0701c0e09545cec1f8883aab274b95e9 SHA-1: 07f5e1932ff89ee200153c455be6f1cb242e08fb SHA-256: 64b2ec34b00260679f035839b3de0838cd541cc89ba445cbabbde262ce1ce029
126 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The file was detected as malicious by ML classifiers and ClamAV, specifically flagged as Pdf.Phishing.Trojan. The presence of numerous embedded URLs, many pointing to potentially disposable hosting, and the heuristic 'PDF_SEO_DISPOSABLE_LINK_FARM' indicate a phishing or scam attempt. Although no scripts were explicitly extracted, the PDF structure and embedded URLs suggest an attempt to redirect the user to malicious content, likely for credential harvesting or malware delivery.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9997

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://www.pbttphtk.gov.my/sites/default/files/webform/nolukaronedibikix.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://www.grotekeukens.be/sites/default/files/webform/gmawards2018/87706268510.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://grossenbacher.co.nz/en/system/files/avoidance-training-certificates/tatemomolefifepa.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.telluridescience.org/sites/default/files/tstc-applications/pagasumoxozodaxatukaliwus.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.guninetwork.org/system/files/webform/heirri_proposals/32710798707.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.uts.cw/sites/default/files/webform/vogoledifekotukedadawen.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.pbttphtk.gov.my/sites/default/files/webform/xaduxiwipel.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.blplegal.com/sites/default/files/webform/58709767715.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.mothercare.ro/sites/default/files/webform/resumes/49428740932.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ambrose.edu/sites/default/files/webform/padubomi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://extranet.blanchisserie-toulousaine-de-sante.com/sites/extranet.blanchisserie-toulousaine-de-sante.com/files/documents/justificatifs/pefusoxewirevujilo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://pilgrimland.com/sites/default/files/webform/resume-uploads/woluweweketasuzizolog.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/In PDF document text
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/typedesigners.htmlIn PDF document text
    • http://fedorahosted.org/lohitIn PDF document text
    • http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Uplcv/~3/FevRqgeaUVY/uplcv?utm_term=avishkar+in+hindi+pdfPDF link annotation
    • https://www.healthdata.org/sites/default/files/resumes/mevupuxapiledowitire.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.vub.be/sites/vub/files/webform/siwujomizawafoxewop.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 3

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
font_00_sfnt_off0000ebd1.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xEBD1 5208 bytes
SHA-256: 83d7af4a64bdd25f2c25fd5b4622accd1ad997ce6124f5c015821cdf2d20d643
font_01_sfnt_off0000fd89.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xFD89 10280 bytes
SHA-256: 2a19f8fb786781c954880991ca30fed889eaa73b922c3d15844a72cc861fd091
font_02_sfnt_off000120b2.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x120B2 13752 bytes
SHA-256: b4d33377e019c3d311857933c75138c0ad8ec30dff4fea6bc7febefd255f5139