Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 7b87192df0938632…

MALICIOUS

PDF

70.3 KB Created: 2021-04-17 09:55:20 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7) First seen: 2021-05-26
MD5: dd5989c64937105c9139d34050f3ba74 SHA-1: c6556a84587a97ed74a3002c4f0f116455de51ce SHA-256: 7b87192df09386320e13987f9c4b69a80ea2f3f7beafe0ff28ff854141907425
126 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF document contains a lure related to a technical issue with headphones, aiming to trick the user into clicking a link. The ML classifier and ClamAV detection strongly indicate malicious intent, specifically phishing. Although no scripts were explicitly extracted, the PDF structure and embedded URLs suggest it's designed to redirect users to potentially malicious sites.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9995

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.jwico.com/sites/default/files/webform/49109440539.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://cicatsalud.com/html/sites/default/files/webform/21030689395.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://oaklandchildcare.org/sites/default/files/webform/subeditanutojodojewogize.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.a1touchsolution.nl/sites/default/files/26511902049.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.enwidth.com/sites/default/files/webform/resumes/79062027218.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://cicatsalud.com/html/sites/default/files/webform/61943826361.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://vectorcorp.net/sites/default/files/webform/resume/86038084563.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://portal-mysigma.com/system/files/student-proof/28249136979.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/cv9VXjIrmdE/uplcv?utm_term=my+ilive+headphones+won%2527t+turn+onPDF link annotation
    • https://www.vub.be/sites/vub/files/webform/gegisikirusesikogibo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.vub.be/sites/vub/files/webform/pagilavamuvawasaxega.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_off0000d833.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xD833 5340 bytes
SHA-256: 583dc1f2eb7ff6a2f3501f89918036560152920b685bd3efa4ddf8961de47f82
font_01_sfnt_off0000ea82.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xEA82 10060 bytes
SHA-256: b595ea3f3eabf5a0f159b6cd46146aedf58a2be3b4e4365f876fd2c71da23cc0