Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 6ad27ba66d7d14ed…

MALICIOUS

PDF

73.3 KB Created: 2021-04-27 11:08:19 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7) First seen: 2021-05-26
MD5: c66faa8281e5c31e12c1ef9c1f3e3880 SHA-1: 8029b5f95e109325e7e30cc7fa883ccd98e6aa6e SHA-256: 6ad27ba66d7d14ed7c5bb2978e85321ba61553e056dac0a6cfc7b0ea61035091
126 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF contains numerous embedded URLs, many of which point to disposable or unknown domains, suggesting a link farm or phishing infrastructure. The ML classifier and ClamAV detection strongly indicate malicious intent, likely related to phishing or malware delivery. While no scripts were explicitly extracted, the PDF structure and heuristic firings point towards an attempt to redirect users to malicious sites.

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/ziwisotug.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://cicatsalud.com/html/sites/default/files/webform/bulurifabisiwotubavigivos.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://oaklandchildcare.org/sites/default/files/webform/70037852461.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://grossenbacher.co.nz/en/system/files/avoidance-training-certificates/tonitunivopevefasoxezaw.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.ofalloncasting.com/sites/default/files/webform/68406293253.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://klm3fg.grhosting.cz/sites/default/files/webform/files/6948618973.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://russian-ice-spb.ru/sites/default/files/webform/files/77599308563.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.dgs-interparts.be/sites/default/files/42042694998.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://pilgrimland.com/sites/default/files/webform/resume-uploads/mikax.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://architecturaldesigninc.com/sites/default/files/sujuxot.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://cicatsalud.com/html/sites/default/files/webform/jowodudarazobipadumalo.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/skout/mBVl/~3/3vuEKuznOb8/uplcv?utm_term=pathfinder+sorcerer+spell+tablePDF link annotation
    • https://umatter.princeton.edu/system/files/webform/requests/roporopapoviz.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://gradfutures.princeton.edu/system/files/webform/xafuzekimizitigemuseli.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://minorsoncampus.princeton.edu/system/files/webform/libovonudipiguriteg.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://drones.princeton.edu/system/files/webform/65601020807.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_off0000e133.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xE133 5384 bytes
SHA-256: 457533801748160a241407b948dd530535be02d9cfedcbc6cfe6f4b5904162be
font_01_sfnt_off0000f37a.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF37A 10740 bytes
SHA-256: 8d6c5281b299ce12f6667b910facfbc680bedf176ae3aad7c509b18eb7a1ce18