Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 7e8392bc65f9111b…

MALICIOUS

PDF

68.2 KB Created: 2021-04-10 04:00:49 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7) First seen: 2021-05-29
MD5: 1b86aff9bbe443249485cd97e4047d1e SHA-1: 02ff7859cc2a291e3b8f20e9fb1046359d501b5b SHA-256: 7e8392bc65f9111b7331792bf5d15be4018469865e586a0841c6500e19e18421
126 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF file was flagged by ML classifiers and ClamAV as malicious, specifically as a phishing trojan. It contains numerous embedded URLs that point to various domains, many of which appear to be part of a link farm designed to obscure the true destination. The document body, though heavily obfuscated, contains references to downloading MP3 files, suggesting a lure for users seeking free content. No scripts were extracted, but the presence of multiple external URIs and the link farm structure indicate an attempt to redirect users to malicious sites.

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 http://cicatsalud.com/html/sites/default/files/webform/90703453713.pdf In PDF document text
    • https://aboss.by/sites/default/files/webform/tatesejozamelifat.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.newburghgroup.com/sites/default/files/webform/resumes/tikijoti.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.mainephilanthropy.org/sites/default/files/lipedoketuparukol.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ambrose.edu/sites/default/files/webform/65047245793.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.dgs-interparts.be/sites/default/files/viwiredozilopuvotudulufez.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.afscme65.org/system/files/webform/96479551545.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.termis.org/system/files/webform/vomijalikuwukilowerosi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.mothercare.ro/sites/default/files/webform/resumes/77861868930.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.muttypawsacademy.com/sites/default/files/webform/vaccines/65827293628.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.pbttphtk.gov.my/sites/default/files/webform/88462653206.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/BkSY9tpko7c/uplcv?utm_term=tip+tip+barsa+pani+mp3+free+downloadPDF link annotation
    • https://www.healthdata.org/sites/default/files/resumes/sutuzosugogaw.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://lib.asu.edu/system/files/webform/nexeginexepor.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://thesanfordschool.asu.edu/sites/default/files/webform/moxogugudufagelo.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_off0000ce5d.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xCE5D 5532 bytes
SHA-256: 304102107af918e3189ec8edffe6ee478dcd799988d2ff472e6984c23750e231
font_01_sfnt_off0000e11f.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xE11F 10292 bytes
SHA-256: cc1720ae68d7f684ff6192308e6c7825028bb1da95a44b5a9b1fb0c3ccc99c94

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