Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 83d6497f6b7dc416…

MALICIOUS

PDF

73.2 KB Created: 2021-04-16 16:41:49 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7) First seen: 2021-05-26
MD5: bff7169d473d52259d8293d178525a66 SHA-1: b4dd0a1dbc6f5d9294e4e61622ec908f3188a7d2 SHA-256: 83d6497f6b7dc4165c5d4ceb4164d4f9adf36bcf6e52ddf08d43b77f4d0cdad9
126 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF contains numerous embedded URLs, many of which point to disposable domains or are structured as link farms, indicating a phishing or redirection attempt. The ML classifier and ClamAV detection strongly suggest malicious intent. Although no scripts were explicitly extracted, the PDF structure and embedded URIs are consistent with techniques used to redirect users to malicious sites.

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.telluridescience.org/sites/default/files/tstc-applications/dadesiludidogujuta.pdf In PDF document text
    • https://www.osgeurope.com/sites/osg-corporate.dev/files/webform/nutuzisujobipusife.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.jsif.org/sites/default/files/webform/54003515034.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://pilgrimland.com/sites/default/files/webform/resume-uploads/jitebetususi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://architecturaldesigninc.com/sites/default/files/vudezuluxi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.newburghgroup.com/sites/default/files/webform/resumes/talazeleravu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.dgs-interparts.be/sites/default/files/7838369457.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.jwico.com/sites/default/files/webform/vuvosiritixulufanili.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://cicatsalud.com/html/sites/default/files/webform/93477879009.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ambrose.edu/sites/default/files/webform/99544266771.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.jwico.com/sites/default/files/webform/kupoxogij.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/BkSY9tpko7c/uplcv?utm_term=neato+botvac+connected+d7+reviewPDF link annotation
    • https://gradfutures.princeton.edu/system/files/webform/buviboxakutovovujigobimis.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_off0000e02a.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xE02A 5064 bytes
SHA-256: e2373a944ccee1fd09efd5fcc0abce61da8b9fa80cda44031bf52bc17f0deba7
font_01_sfnt_off0000f192.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF192 10788 bytes
SHA-256: d10d7bfd6dd6206b901b69152af055268f36e371007e0e39c67a972cdbbc8bd9

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