Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 7413aebd2193e4ce…

MALICIOUS

PDF

66.4 KB Created: 2021-04-22 14:45:57 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7) First seen: 2021-05-29
MD5: c016c9a9b913463dff0a22611c47637f SHA-1: 4d6b9f50a261d0cad96c4cdec684f0bd323a3cc5 SHA-256: 7413aebd2193e4ce5ab2f09d4f465292c1e67b992f66d68c1a6ce0831268539e
126 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

This PDF file was flagged as malicious by ML classifiers and ClamAV, indicating a high likelihood of malicious intent. The PDF contains numerous embedded URLs, many of which point to seemingly legitimate domains but are used in a link farm pattern, suggesting a phishing or redirection scheme. The presence of the 'PDF_SEO_DISPOSABLE_LINK_FARM' heuristic further supports this, indicating the document is designed to distribute links. While no scripts were explicitly extracted, the nature of the embedded URLs and the overall structure suggest it's designed to lead users to malicious content.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9998

Heuristics 5

  • ClamAV: Pdf.Phishing.Trojan-d2528dad23a95d95-d2528dad23a95d95-10044376-0 critical CLAMAV_DETECTION
    ClamAV detected this file as malware: Pdf.Phishing.Trojan-d2528dad23a95d95-d2528dad23a95d95-10044376-0
  • 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.osgeurope.com/sites/osg-corporate.dev/files/webform/tafunowusovuna.pdf In PDF document text
    • https://www.jts.org.jo/sites/default/files/webform/86196288468.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.grotekeukens.be/sites/default/files/webform/gmawards2018/jebumimebugamoto.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.cdcplumbing.com/sites/default/files/webform/contact-us/sawifujemenolezaf.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.jsif.org/sites/default/files/webform/vinuriruxelapaviwona.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ambrose.edu/sites/default/files/webform/85138354947.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://oaklandchildcare.org/sites/default/files/webform/bidepe.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.a1touchsolution.nl/sites/default/files/64517041799.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/PmAiG5ZyT-k/uplcv?utm_term=what+the+bible+said+about+fearPDF link annotation
    • https://campusrec.princeton.edu/system/files/webform/18758627140.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://campusrec.princeton.edu/system/files/webform/7624886728.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://gradfutures.princeton.edu/system/files/webform/ninavixokamorul.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://lib.asu.edu/system/files/webform/90369837207.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_off0000c823.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xC823 5148 bytes
SHA-256: 983912df588fe20e1a347c503a0302e85c6166d533a9b032c2f1b3dc50756512
font_01_sfnt_off0000d9a7.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xD9A7 10464 bytes
SHA-256: 6de9b039d5d46f7be987b8adb0bde9ff4fd8eee9c55594d7561c1f3d1def288c

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