Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 6c3c7cab561cb9a3…

MALICIOUS

PDF

114.2 KB Created: 2021-04-24 13:16:02 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7) First seen: 2021-05-26
MD5: d15bfe143a680e4916840d955dd1192b SHA-1: 7af5af296b626e66c909cb4810c5069e85ed515e SHA-256: 6c3c7cab561cb9a3e43bb70c53497fada5bcc394e37a8370e527ec809afc41ac
134 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The file was detected as malicious by ClamAV and an ML classifier, indicating a high likelihood of malicious intent. The PDF contains numerous embedded URLs, many of which point to unknown or potentially malicious domains, suggesting a link farm or phishing lure. The presence of a 'download button' heuristic further supports the attack pattern of tricking users into clicking malicious links. No scripts were extracted, but the overall structure and URL findings point to a phishing or malware distribution attempt.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9995

Heuristics 6

  • 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.
  • Visual download / call-to-action button lure low SE_DOWNLOAD_BUTTON
    Document contains a call-to-action phrase ('Click here to download', 'Download Now', etc.) — low-signal unless other findings point to a malicious workflow
  • 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.jwico.com/sites/default/files/webform/49109440539.pdf In PDF document text
    • https://grossenbacher.co.nz/en/system/files/avoidance-training-certificates/4264017636.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://grossenbacher.co.nz/en/system/files/avoidance-training-certificates/tatemomolefifepa.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.natsihwa.org.au/sites/default/files/webform/81826716543.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ambrose.edu/sites/default/files/webform/sovurusogizafubeb.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.muttypawsacademy.com/sites/default/files/webform/vaccines/2944445507.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.jsif.org/sites/default/files/webform/kedoruxanagavapiwo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.grotekeukens.be/sites/default/files/webform/gmawards2018/48103714077.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.natsihwa.org.au/sites/default/files/webform/72917344941.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ambrose.edu/sites/default/files/webform/99544266771.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.muttypawsacademy.com/sites/default/files/webform/vaccines/96392425525.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.sumnercountyhospital.org/sites/default/files/webform/vetasitumuwogemukuruv.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.newburghgroup.com/sites/default/files/webform/resumes/mogewewe.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
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/1eyvgo/aqOO/~3/3CAf4wW3hvY/uplcv?utm_term=fluid+mechanics+physics+wallah+playlistPDF link annotation
    • https://www.ice.cam.ac.uk/sites/www.ice.cam.ac.uk/files/webform/8342566550.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://community.princeton.edu/system/files/webform/jidubiziro.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
    • http://dejavu.sourceforge.netIn PDF document text
    • http://dejavu.sourceforge.net/wiki/index.php/LicenseIn PDF document text

Extracted artifacts 4

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
font_00_sfnt_off0001584c.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x1584C 5368 bytes
SHA-256: b52b2c9b24d10b01a19851c2304c3d32dc54a22901dfed2ceee399a6c7554e8a
font_01_sfnt_off00016a7c.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x16A7C 12232 bytes
SHA-256: e17db4a1189286f00cc261953b0287d2376de59aa59b3a0c9dcccb5080fc1bf7
font_02_sfnt_off0001942d.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x1942D 16164 bytes
SHA-256: 6e3fbd491d8b71441998836ddca0d0c102716a221ea14f8143929167ad9a79b3
font_03_sfnt_off0001a97e.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x1A97E 4852 bytes
SHA-256: 7c3adeb19e3fe999361e015d74c22f45112cf734552c93097bfb595d722a5e8f