Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 7a456a19c2c37803…

MALICIOUS

PDF

74.8 KB Created: 2021-04-21 21:57:04 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7) First seen: 2021-06-04
MD5: 8357cd84ca014e62dc4da2e9e3840a97 SHA-1: fd01452fff2ef62ea644b8255a60c766e63b8f85 SHA-256: 7a456a19c2c378035fdbb33c6b5e2b703699a30f9b315db1e47d9935cc478ab6
134 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment T1059.007 JavaScript T1203 Exploitation for Client Execution

The PDF document was flagged by a machine learning classifier and ClamAV as malicious, specifically as a phishing trojan. Heuristics indicate it functions as a link farm, likely to direct users to malicious sites. The presence of embedded URLs and the 'Fake invoice / payment lure' heuristic suggest a phishing attempt designed to trick users into clicking through to a compromised or malicious domain.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9998

Heuristics 6

  • 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.
  • Fake invoice / payment lure low SE_INVOICE_LURE
    Document contains invoice or payment language paired with an action verb — useful context when combined with link, macro, or attachment indicators
  • 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.blplegal.com/sites/default/files/webform/piselusani.pdf In PDF document text
    • https://www.natsihwa.org.au/sites/default/files/webform/81826716543.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.enwidth.com/sites/default/files/webform/resumes/noranixuguwetepefosobad.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.visitsavannah.com/sites/default/files/webform/71260674720.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.muttypawsacademy.com/sites/default/files/webform/vaccines/powevalixerofewum.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.pacificsportfraservalley.com/sites/default/files/webform/zajufofagobixipisuna.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ambrose.edu/sites/default/files/webform/46846662681.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://grossenbacher.co.nz/en/system/files/avoidance-training-certificates/34782296767.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://vectorcorp.net/sites/default/files/webform/resume/tefofavokalozigukar.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/cv9VXjIrmdE/uplcv?utm_term=fedloan+pslf+contactPDF link annotation
    • https://thesanfordschool.asu.edu/sites/default/files/webform/63066688876.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://lib.asu.edu/system/files/webform/90369837207.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://community.princeton.edu/system/files/webform/vujipudujusikal.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://printandmail.princeton.edu/system/files/webform/83401752781.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_off0000e605.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xE605 5008 bytes
SHA-256: 48ad1e68979d81e1af091a5fee0aec024dc88fa2087b7cdb1e6fd7bd86de9817
font_01_sfnt_off0000f72a.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF72A 11140 bytes
SHA-256: 5e3e784aa1be2600c4eb76f27e1435130f90c5fd0d68ed678752959059c83db9

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