Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 66de4b8f02442172…

MALICIOUS

PDF

79.0 KB Created: 2021-04-06 19:01:05 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7)
MD5: 5b3f3075e5a33f9d9bfe1f370db9a440 SHA-1: f433394ed5dc61c8a3f74eedacfa29844f716902 SHA-256: 66de4b8f0244217217b81924ac711a16327964716d7db501c8dc41eb2427ab6e
126 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF file was flagged by ML classifiers and ClamAV as malicious, indicating a high likelihood of malicious intent. The heuristic 'PDF_SEO_DISPOSABLE_LINK_FARM' suggests the document is designed to host multiple links on disposable domains, a common tactic for phishing or distributing further malware. While no scripts were explicitly extracted, the PDF structure and embedded URLs point towards an attempt to redirect users to potentially harmful external sites.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9281

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
  • PDF differential parser failed info PDF_DIFFERENTIAL_PARSE_FAILED
    The cross-check parser (pdfminer.six) failed on this file: PDF differential parser failed: PDFSyntaxError. Static heuristics still ran and any of their findings above are valid; only the differential cross-check signal is missing.
  • 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.uts.cw/sites/default/files/webform/50818196885.pdf
    • https://www.mothercare.ro/sites/default/files/webform/resumes/tizagoge.pdf
    • https://www.enwidth.com/sites/default/files/webform/resumes/79062027218.pdf
    • https://www.newburghgroup.com/sites/default/files/webform/resumes/woxofenobe.pdf
    • http://cicatsalud.com/html/sites/default/files/webform/28693943460.pdf
    • https://www.termis.org/system/files/webform/manejuwavujegajejumoxak.pdf
    • http://www.pbttphtk.gov.my/sites/default/files/webform/74795851198.pdf
    • https://ambrose.edu/sites/default/files/webform/28961662769.pdf
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/typedesigners.html
    • http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Uplcv/~3/BkSY9tpko7c/uplcv?utm_term=jspdf+autotable+header
    • https://printandmail.princeton.edu/system/files/webform/42849177422.pdf
    • https://minorsoncampus.princeton.edu/system/files/webform/libovonudipiguriteg.pdf
    • https://www.vub.be/sites/vub/files/webform/piwolumubixu.pdf
    • https://thesanfordschool.asu.edu/sites/default/files/webform/fapivo.pdf
    • https://campusrec.princeton.edu/system/files/webform/wawojamifot.pdf
    • http://scripts.sil.org/OFL

Extracted artifacts 2

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
font_00_sfnt_off000100f1.bin
b64e78c214b72cf9e77c1c5a2f87e910dc156558cf402fc16d005375f7e76de0
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x100F1 5256 bytes
font_01_sfnt_off000112bd.bin
0f7baea50fddc2fc3e3f11f1ce7ac6a37a5f889d27c5f9b19b9ebd40284984fd
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x112BD 11376 bytes