Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 6831d0eb8616394e…

MALICIOUS

PDF

65.8 KB Created: 2021-04-20 17:10:19 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7) First seen: 2021-05-26
MD5: c90bb7e6ab372085cf0b0cea4271b292 SHA-1: 0f9c091a584a4ee55e9e86395a02a1b97910990b SHA-256: 6831d0eb8616394e5e0c0ebe39f1117afbcafa8cc00f3ca5c7be7bc358d0fba4
126 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment T1204.002 Malicious Link

The PDF file was flagged by ClamAV as Pdf.Phishing.Trojan and a machine learning classifier indicated a high probability of maliciousness. The heuristic PDF_SEO_DISPOSABLE_LINK_FARM indicates the document is a link farm on disposable hosting, with multiple external URIs pointing to potentially malicious sites. The embedded URLs and the document's structure suggest an attempt to direct users to external resources, likely for phishing or malware delivery.

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.blplegal.com/sites/default/files/webform/3097059720.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://klm3fg.grhosting.cz/sites/default/files/webform/files/56601188302.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://aboss.by/sites/default/files/webform/10891008032.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.pacificsportfraservalley.com/sites/default/files/webform/newusagolepilukakatukus.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.guninetwork.org/system/files/webform/heirri_proposals/rarapenebeku.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.mainephilanthropy.org/sites/default/files/ziladiweropisikiforab.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://seiary.com/sites/default/files/webform/rec/wugibizipudaxejomite.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.grotekeukens.be/sites/default/files/webform/gmawards2018/84972388600.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.a1touchsolution.nl/sites/default/files/rowiduw.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.friendlycc.com/sites/default/files/webform/zuguxinukebezukul.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://cicatsalud.com/html/sites/default/files/webform/65000750087.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/BvfzZFkJO3s/uplcv?utm_term=fsa+writing+rubric+grade+4+opinionPDF link annotation
    • https://minorsoncampus.princeton.edu/system/files/webform/xadumiwedom.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://campusrec.princeton.edu/system/files/webform/jelozubunumi.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_off0000c4d4.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xC4D4 5484 bytes
SHA-256: 18981561476a020e48ff67154f9b95135a2a24a4249e4342971c0672176c1394
font_01_sfnt_off0000d7a1.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xD7A1 10180 bytes
SHA-256: 73f0a474f639be2699858a6888900ece4907c278a4f24103dc1ceceaf941c515