Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 709a288a8ade7ba9…

MALICIOUS

PDF

63.0 KB Created: 2021-04-21 00:55:47 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7) First seen: 2021-05-29
MD5: 698c6de9c0b11a77a52b5524f85e11eb SHA-1: 0b00145ea8827dce52751ac2ea3b9c7f2ec735c4 SHA-256: 709a288a8ade7ba901e44903edaca4b1002e08ee9598e6cd6e7b7be087ef754a
126 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF document is classified as malicious by ML and ClamAV, and exhibits characteristics of a link farm. While the document body text is heavily corrupted, the presence of numerous embedded URLs, many pointing to suspicious domains, suggests an attempt to redirect users to malicious content. The heuristic 'PDF_SEO_DISPOSABLE_LINK_FARM' strongly indicates a phishing or scam attempt.

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.cdcplumbing.com/sites/default/files/webform/contact-us/65589142167.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://www.pacificsportfraservalley.com/sites/default/files/webform/zasadavatemomafupe.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.enwidth.com/sites/default/files/webform/resumes/noranixuguwetepefosobad.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://klm3fg.grhosting.cz/sites/default/files/webform/files/todoxobolukajit.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://aboss.by/sites/default/files/webform/89266631471.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ambrose.edu/sites/default/files/webform/juremetepatofuf.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://spotlight-sites.com/sites/default/files/webform/razodogodipuvubetixem.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.sumnercountyhospital.org/sites/default/files/webform/sixativitav.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.a1touchsolution.nl/sites/default/files/56489371510.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ambrose.edu/sites/default/files/webform/fabifuturofutip.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/ngfLrbzwjls/uplcv?utm_term=bhagavad+gita+chapter+12+summaryPDF link annotation
    • https://minorsoncampus.princeton.edu/system/files/webform/wetesagepe.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_off0000b967.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xB967 5848 bytes
SHA-256: d19c610af0b296baa6316473ee77ec06711054923f8f072778efb162c1e35baa
font_01_sfnt_off0000cd3e.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xCD3E 10112 bytes
SHA-256: 5502eee4ff94012d9f3e04812675b3bbf1f593bfd204836c16cca02b74d3e7a3