Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 6e831f7213c789ae…

MALICIOUS

PDF

68.9 KB Created: 2021-04-26 10:01:55 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7) First seen: 2021-05-26
MD5: 4bdc054da12ecc2ca2f12b6c4ed065e7 SHA-1: 43bc3d0d8e6e60fe06ccf72cddbd221d7bb23c5c SHA-256: 6e831f7213c789ae8b44b053952c5ad9eccea3174847a3104a5d3ed306d55386
126 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF document contains numerous embedded URLs, many of which point to disposable domains and are structured as link farms, a common tactic for phishing or distributing malware. The ML classifier and ClamAV detection strongly indicate malicious intent. While no scripts were explicitly extracted, the PDF structure and URL patterns suggest it is designed to redirect users to malicious sites.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9997

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://vectorcorp.net/sites/default/files/webform/resume/tefofavokalozigukar.pdf In PDF document text
    • https://ambrose.edu/sites/default/files/webform/sudelo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.dgs-interparts.be/sites/default/files/36138637258.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.jts.org.jo/sites/default/files/webform/76938035167.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.osgeurope.com/sites/osg-corporate.dev/files/webform/zizepuniket.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://russian-ice-spb.ru/sites/default/files/webform/files/zatepatepekaberemosigedix.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://spotlight-sites.com/sites/default/files/webform/sizewavajifur.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.osgeurope.com/sites/osg-corporate.dev/files/webform/gurasijam.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://russian-ice-spb.ru/sites/default/files/webform/files/77599308563.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://oaklandchildcare.org/sites/default/files/webform/ponezilineg.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.natsihwa.org.au/sites/default/files/webform/19026354442.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/Uplcv/~3/DOqCt-cVA4I/uplcv?utm_term=oa+90+food+planPDF link annotation
    • https://lib.asu.edu/system/files/webform/liwubuwivak.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://thesanfordschool.asu.edu/sites/default/files/webform/20850651402.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://lib.asu.edu/system/files/webform/nexeginexepor.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_off0000d341.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xD341 5084 bytes
SHA-256: 2dc7f8502a516608813d1d8592ca7b7899d790e5ad07135302a1ab0bc4d2c1da
font_01_sfnt_off0000e4a5.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xE4A5 10228 bytes
SHA-256: 75cbe9624aff20677a2dbc99adbb6a655bed9f882d40f3a3e32e2ee318e1c41f