Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 88971890c666f7b4…

MALICIOUS

PDF

71.7 KB Created: 2021-04-13 06:35:40 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7)
MD5: d307e3d2841f0ba6b023042d70c11ded SHA-1: bf6ed44ded8aa17985161aa6d809251f48c1ed8d SHA-256: 88971890c666f7b4bdd793f9198a43454d359e2f34b0a376ef34c5d557ffd9b5
126 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The file was detected by ClamAV as a phishing trojan and flagged by an ML classifier with high confidence. It contains numerous embedded URLs, many of which are structured as link farms, suggesting an attempt to redirect users to malicious sites. The presence of PDF-specific heuristics like 'PDF_SEO_DISPOSABLE_LINK_FARM' further supports a phishing or malicious redirection scheme.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9810

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
  • PDF differential parser failed info PDF_DIFFERENTIAL_PARSE_FAILED
    The cross-check parser (pdfminer.six) failed on this file: PDF differential parser failed: PDFSyntaxError. Static heuristics still ran and any of their findings above are valid; only the differential cross-check signal is missing.
  • 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.birdlifebotswana.org.bw/sites/default/files/webform/sightings-sketches/12812059159.pdf
    • http://oaklandchildcare.org/sites/default/files/webform/71502920023.pdf
    • https://www.cdcplumbing.com/sites/default/files/webform/contact-us/65589142167.pdf
    • https://www.dgs-interparts.be/sites/default/files/xufatonapa.pdf
    • http://cicatsalud.com/html/sites/default/files/webform/21030689395.pdf
    • https://web.liderpapel.com/sites/default/files/webform/xikamiwaboloz.pdf
    • http://portal-mysigma.com/system/files/student-proof/62332338419.pdf
    • http://klm3fg.grhosting.cz/sites/default/files/webform/files/15194676649.pdf
    • https://www.telluridescience.org/sites/default/files/tstc-applications/kuvusuwube.pdf
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/typedesigners.html
    • http://www.daltonmaag.com/
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Uplcv/~3/A3Ryygt5BCM/uplcv?utm_term=the+longest+ride+nicholas+sparks+full+movie
    • https://lib.asu.edu/system/files/webform/midari.pdf
    • https://printandmail.princeton.edu/system/files/webform/85064040694.pdf
    • https://www.ice.cam.ac.uk/sites/www.ice.cam.ac.uk/files/webform/7842358922.pdf
    • http://scripts.sil.org/OFL

Extracted artifacts 3

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
font_00_sfnt_off0000d627.bin
d98c4517eccde1f32434a5a3e7a5e3c5f48ac179244936400c6f8ccce8abaaa7
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xD627 5524 bytes
font_01_sfnt_off0000e8cd.bin
db55c8fdadd1ed2511c2372fc310d0468aadae601588cb9b1cf94463ea378e52
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xE8CD 10956 bytes
font_02_sfnt_off00010dd0.bin
05d2457133b820fa77aa358e30e9acfbad3f04c46ced9a37296d9311117db176
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x10DD0 4324 bytes