Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 84730b4963c0b6be…

MALICIOUS

PDF

75.5 KB Created: 2021-04-12 06:55:08 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7) First seen: 2021-06-30
MD5: 29504ebe182fedcb0a38535854e512fc SHA-1: 9e4717cdccffd524f3c03892c78689889fd11216 SHA-256: 84730b4963c0b6be82405073dea0c169f4dfa7f9416bfa4d0370ef50f4359518
126 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The ML classifier and ClamAV detection strongly indicate maliciousness. The PDF contains numerous embedded URLs, many of which point to suspicious domains and are structured to appear as form submissions, suggesting a phishing or credential harvesting attempt. The presence of external URIs and a link farm heuristic further supports a malicious intent to redirect users to potentially harmful sites.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9998

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://europa-ts.ru/sites/default/files/webform/6529842099.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://www.friendlycc.com/sites/default/files/webform/topevonizudurazot.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.sumnercountyhospital.org/sites/default/files/webform/27017481005.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://extranet.blanchisserie-toulousaine-de-sante.com/sites/extranet.blanchisserie-toulousaine-de-sante.com/files/documents/justificatifs/pefusoxewirevujilo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://natsihwa.org.au/sites/default/files/webform/degajakuko.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.uts.cw/sites/default/files/webform/vogoledifekotukedadawen.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.friendlycc.com/sites/default/files/webform/zuguxinukebezukul.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ambrose.edu/sites/default/files/webform/durigoxilakomisi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.mothercare.ro/sites/default/files/webform/resumes/95866450710.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.guninetwork.org/system/files/webform/heirri_proposals/74543186253.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/~3/3CAf4wW3hvY/uplcv?utm_term=music+hall+turntable+reviewPDF link annotation
    • https://minorsoncampus.princeton.edu/system/files/webform/kuwidiloj.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://minorsoncampus.princeton.edu/system/files/webform/fujixedapilevunagujos.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_off0000ea74.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xEA74 5184 bytes
SHA-256: fcfa99970b7b0ea18cfce1e35b87bcc97563eda00e74a1511174290de4912bf6
font_01_sfnt_off0000fc33.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xFC33 10940 bytes
SHA-256: ad0303e34d8a0a2568a87168aab7831d60d880d73a62000dd5cf90098b56c0f4