Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 72052c5012ba7900…

MALICIOUS

PDF

71.4 KB Created: 2021-04-09 18:04:00 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7) First seen: 2021-05-29
MD5: a181f302f8da5df15bf5864a02e34611 SHA-1: 7651d62bdfd623b5e6d167867ce13ab2e36ea555 SHA-256: 72052c5012ba7900a9834f4e1f050b06deccc5ac0956e6926903c6f005fe0306
134 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment T1203 Exploitation for Client Execution

The ML classifier and ClamAV detection strongly indicate malicious intent. The PDF contains numerous external URIs and is flagged as a link farm, suggesting it's designed to redirect users to malicious sites or download further payloads. The presence of a 'download' button heuristic further supports a lure-based attack pattern.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9998

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.natsihwa.org.au/sites/default/files/webform/setafemamuf.pdf In PDF document text
    • https://www.ofalloncasting.com/sites/default/files/webform/81254010544.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://europa-ts.ru/sites/default/files/webform/81905598419.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://extranet.blanchisserie-toulousaine-de-sante.com/sites/extranet.blanchisserie-toulousaine-de-sante.com/files/documents/justificatifs/vinoku.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.blplegal.com/sites/default/files/webform/80507347088.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.guninetwork.org/system/files/webform/heirri_proposals/nuxikovevevugodir.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.jwico.com/sites/default/files/webform/kupoxogij.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.pbttphtk.gov.my/sites/default/files/webform/kafavepovimurajubek.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.pacificsportfraservalley.com/sites/default/files/webform/joxelivoresilawefuxeli.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ambrose.edu/sites/default/files/webform/11118021720.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.enwidth.com/sites/default/files/webform/resumes/48862039041.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=malankara+orthodox+evening+prayer+malayalamPDF link annotation
    • https://www.vub.be/sites/vub/files/webform/16824703900.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.vub.be/sites/vub/files/webform/ludazerubadariwevulefaxu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.ice.cam.ac.uk/sites/www.ice.cam.ac.uk/files/webform/ruwitik.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_off0000d5a3.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xD5A3 5496 bytes
SHA-256: 7670fe9b6f9c80b19039d044ddac7724e4d029a781ea739ec5f193eddb535502
font_01_sfnt_off0000e846.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xE846 11740 bytes
SHA-256: 92c174b43091e71502503512cadbb87e52665196754d8ed1ef7ac578ab1ebd7c