Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 7db9d6b314fc267f…

MALICIOUS

PDF

70.4 KB Created: 2021-04-14 20:09:47 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7) First seen: 2021-07-10
MD5: ca9a473fd59491bd9cb4c40fffd1a581 SHA-1: dad3d463efaf47b2fe6937472568495d5fda6a96 SHA-256: 7db9d6b314fc267faf2aa809d06056019bde87f29c9e32491304be6fdfd84f21
126 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF contains numerous embedded URLs, many of which are hosted on seemingly legitimate domains but are likely part of a link farm designed to redirect users to malicious sites. The ML classifier and ClamAV detection strongly indicate malicious intent, classifying it as a phishing or trojan PDF. While no scripts were explicitly extracted, the PDF structure and embedded links suggest an attempt to exploit users through deceptive content, likely leading to further compromise.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9997

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.natsihwa.org.au/sites/default/files/webform/21073527915.pdf In PDF document text
    • https://ambrose.edu/sites/default/files/webform/71027525942.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://portal-mysigma.com/system/files/student-proof/28249136979.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ambrose.edu/sites/default/files/webform/7968200385.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.jts.org.jo/sites/default/files/webform/86196288468.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://seiary.com/sites/default/files/webform/rec/netugapufuzutazegiwiwivi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://pilgrimland.com/sites/default/files/webform/resume-uploads/40494538869.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/In PDF document text
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/typedesigners.htmlIn PDF document text
    • http://www.daltonmaag.com/In PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/skout/mBVl/~3/BvfzZFkJO3s/uplcv?utm_term=gary+moore+the+loner+live+in+stockholm+1987PDF link annotation
    • https://gradfutures.princeton.edu/system/files/webform/86626084736.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://drones.princeton.edu/system/files/webform/xakunowegetudirojevogejiw.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.healthdata.org/sites/default/files/resumes/78922999772.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://thesanfordschool.asu.edu/sites/default/files/webform/fapivo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.ice.cam.ac.uk/sites/www.ice.cam.ac.uk/files/webform/10713621665.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ec.europa.eu/eip/agriculture/sites/default/files/webform/sukazejaso.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 3

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
font_00_sfnt_off0000c94b.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xC94B 5568 bytes
SHA-256: 3e2886dbeef1e3dff8061b1d5e36cdcd2d7bb3fd0ce60c45750bb18ea54937f7
font_01_sfnt_off0000dc22.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xDC22 9932 bytes
SHA-256: 65b51c5d16655c2441df039e4035e7bef3617d931f24dbe88b0100c97329ecef
font_02_sfnt_off0000fe3e.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xFE3E 4324 bytes
SHA-256: cd94ef65598b1866d0653cdd88243d989fd81359c0e770c2d3a4858f1c2f6d34