Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 86bcb132c6c1a1d4…

MALICIOUS

PDF

66.5 KB Created: 2021-04-25 14:28:14 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7) First seen: 2021-05-29
MD5: 08acddb419c0c95f6da2e782c7fbc3cf SHA-1: de1ff6b0e4cefd9028b0e1f0ec6258bbb0c55fe2 SHA-256: 86bcb132c6c1a1d41912b01f6e4da863d4bd90f3b027a68bd06b63379f2fc55f
126 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF was flagged by ML classifiers and ClamAV as malicious, indicating a high likelihood of malicious intent. The presence of numerous external URIs, many pointing to potentially disposable domains, suggests a link farm designed to redirect users to malicious sites. While no scripts were explicitly extracted, the PDF structure and heuristic firings strongly suggest it's a phishing or malware distribution lure.

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://www.guninetwork.org/system/files/webform/heirri_proposals/wozat.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://www.birdlifebotswana.org.bw/sites/default/files/webform/sightings-sketches/beporu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://klm3fg.grhosting.cz/sites/default/files/webform/files/kokibilelage.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ambrose.edu/sites/default/files/webform/rebunedirewe.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://oaklandchildcare.org/sites/default/files/webform/70037852461.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://extranet.blanchisserie-toulousaine-de-sante.com/sites/extranet.blanchisserie-toulousaine-de-sante.com/files/documents/justificatifs/ratasivovo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ambrose.edu/sites/default/files/webform/kubuxodadiwozubak.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.osgeurope.com/sites/osg-corporate.dev/files/webform/keborezuvefubivuw.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://aboss.by/sites/default/files/webform/32639212941.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.friendlycc.com/sites/default/files/webform/tojatovovezugunubi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.muttypawsacademy.com/sites/default/files/webform/vaccines/nojezajewi.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/GLLx1DTH0VQ/uplcv?utm_term=black+and+white+christmas+ornaments+walmartPDF link annotation
    • https://printandmail.princeton.edu/system/files/webform/mizol.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://community.princeton.edu/system/files/webform/40347257249.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://printandmail.princeton.edu/system/files/webform/26360011081.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_off0000c7d9.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xC7D9 5384 bytes
SHA-256: b8670d52f303fc46ff4e2eae8a865f5f0bade10f31ebf8f5e1e3d55ff985bda4
font_01_sfnt_off0000da12.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xDA12 10308 bytes
SHA-256: 210baef79c327e1186ee8a3d0f93e9d0bcfd600987713da34c04e85d7cdd6eb6