Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 67c83c014a11848a…

MALICIOUS

PDF

95.7 KB Created: 2021-04-15 01:05:30 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7) First seen: 2021-05-26
MD5: c10fa47ef36bae1039310238c640994f SHA-1: d3a263e976d8542f214e0158d4fa228c377db9c6 SHA-256: 67c83c014a11848a82f3288e588b0fbf65ad2569bfc7a4ea68eebd642b1bcb83
126 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The sample is identified as malicious by ML classifiers and ClamAV, indicating a high likelihood of malicious intent. The PDF contains numerous embedded URLs, many pointing to disposable or unknown domains, suggesting a link farm or phishing lure. While no scripts were explicitly extracted, the PDF structure and heuristic firings suggest it is designed to redirect users to external sites, potentially for further exploitation or credential harvesting.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9998

Heuristics 5

  • ClamAV: Pdf.Phishing.Trojan-d2568dad23a94d95-d2568dad23a94d95-10044375-0 critical CLAMAV_DETECTION
    ClamAV detected this file as malware: Pdf.Phishing.Trojan-d2568dad23a94d95-d2568dad23a94d95-10044375-0
  • 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.enwidth.com/sites/default/files/webform/resumes/48862039041.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://pilgrimland.com/sites/default/files/webform/resume-uploads/40494538869.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://vectorcorp.net/sites/default/files/webform/resume/27999686052.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://oaklandchildcare.org/sites/default/files/webform/26688185713.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.a1touchsolution.nl/sites/default/files/64517041799.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.mainephilanthropy.org/sites/default/files/nikosomonebazi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://oaklandchildcare.org/sites/default/files/webform/wafawujozovu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.muttypawsacademy.com/sites/default/files/webform/vaccines/89533113822.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://cicatsalud.com/html/sites/default/files/webform/59286961246.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.natsihwa.org.au/sites/default/files/webform/81826716543.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.osgeurope.com/sites/osg-corporate.dev/files/webform/47147916176.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/~3/1xuhb7AK25c/uplcv?utm_term=does+samsung+nu7100+have+hdmi+arcPDF link annotation
    • https://printandmail.princeton.edu/system/files/webform/68272747422.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.healthdata.org/sites/default/files/resumes/mavesoriv.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://community.princeton.edu/system/files/webform/setokan.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://drones.princeton.edu/system/files/webform/janewif.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_off0001349d.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x1349D 5656 bytes
SHA-256: 595fa059bf091feaf8e62a912ffe08b3a1194b847d0dad9e0ab716f07c8c2d97
font_01_sfnt_off000147c9.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x147C9 12864 bytes
SHA-256: 07bdd4c3b8591dca294a0b1a63c3af47655e3e36e489b7996882ce0cc43188cc