Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 750cde6680884adc…

MALICIOUS

PDF

70.4 KB Created: 2021-04-13 14:32:23 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7) First seen: 2021-05-23
MD5: d07491b546b195e7b902a82d17e5627c SHA-1: da18e99d3a23dfb380358cfcc608ee6769844fdd SHA-256: 750cde6680884adce55f61ef31766312498f05d852a2d288ddc6d710e881a3d8
126 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The sample is identified as malicious by ML classifiers and ClamAV, indicating a high likelihood of malicious intent. It contains numerous embedded URLs, many pointing to seemingly legitimate domains but structured as webform submissions, suggesting a link farm or redirection mechanism. The PDF's structure and the presence of embedded URIs point towards an attempt to redirect users to external, potentially malicious, content.

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.telluridescience.org/sites/default/files/tstc-applications/kuvusuwube.pdf In PDF document text
    • https://www.uts.cw/sites/default/files/webform/bofuwidesuxugebogaxa.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.muttypawsacademy.com/sites/default/files/webform/vaccines/lomaxitafuvutatu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.blplegal.com/sites/default/files/webform/3097059720.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://pilgrimland.com/sites/default/files/webform/resume-uploads/tixatikuwasa.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.ofalloncasting.com/sites/default/files/webform/nunemoxajusadokuxilebe.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.dgs-interparts.be/sites/default/files/jinez.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.enwidth.com/sites/default/files/webform/resumes/21555212736.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://klm3fg.grhosting.cz/sites/default/files/webform/files/todoxobolukajit.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.friendlycc.com/sites/default/files/webform/98819861428.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.natsihwa.org.au/sites/default/files/webform/lavajaruzapelusudixavu.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/1eyvgo/aqOO/~3/YTWXjIUwRh0/uplcv?utm_term=the+occult+technology+of+power+pdfPDF link annotation
    • https://campusrec.princeton.edu/system/files/webform/26909318775.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://lib.asu.edu/system/files/webform/46247033309.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://community.princeton.edu/system/files/webform/tujuxegagisezemesolut.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ec.europa.eu/eip/agriculture/sites/default/files/webform/5272012193.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_off0000d627.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xD627 5172 bytes
SHA-256: 492a105c4d3a8378db54e634886006598466197770ad7e645da46ae8fc3fcf23
font_01_sfnt_off0000e7db.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xE7DB 10732 bytes
SHA-256: dab1d0a34a3223de5364687abbc3c9acd4aedad21148f63e6f02e9fe5b4fa793

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