Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 8946567acd7aa705…

MALICIOUS

PDF

69.8 KB Created: 2021-04-19 23:05:04 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7) First seen: 2021-05-26
MD5: e6a914838276a0f7ff8f9da1a60f3abe SHA-1: 270b8df4ab77cd3d42e044d9cd939ca4ef113e43 SHA-256: 8946567acd7aa7053d343e9b917cfbd20c1ce95c79102ab10721c51682f2b216
126 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF document contains embedded links, with one specifically referencing '2012 toyota camry maintenance cost', suggesting a lure for phishing or a scam. The ML classifier and ClamAV detection strongly indicate malicious intent. Although no scripts were explicitly extracted, the PDF structure and embedded URIs are indicative of malicious activity, likely involving redirection 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 https://www.uts.cw/sites/default/files/webform/tizodakemepegipupimegoxi.pdf In PDF document text
    • https://www.enwidth.com/sites/default/files/webform/resumes/zozagosetimof.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://vectorcorp.net/sites/default/files/webform/resume/dofivefodazewinewes.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.telluridescience.org/sites/default/files/tstc-applications/fezijorimofilafomifum.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.mainephilanthropy.org/sites/default/files/5296457674.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.mainephilanthropy.org/sites/default/files/wimatetomowitiki.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.natsihwa.org.au/sites/default/files/webform/17423244846.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.visitsavannah.com/sites/default/files/webform/mubojezelu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://klm3fg.grhosting.cz/sites/default/files/webform/files/15194676649.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.ofalloncasting.com/sites/default/files/webform/gegemapoxazokex.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://cicatsalud.com/html/sites/default/files/webform/dizage.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.natsihwa.org.au/sites/default/files/webform/tesogiruzan.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/Uplcv/~3/S30rS-6n6vg/uplcv?utm_term=2012+toyota+camry+maintenance+costPDF link annotation
    • https://drones.princeton.edu/system/files/webform/xakunowegetudirojevogejiw.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.healthdata.org/sites/default/files/resumes/sametuzovu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://lib.asu.edu/system/files/webform/56381184371.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://lib.asu.edu/system/files/webform/vabomabexajamoja.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_off0000d60c.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xD60C 5248 bytes
SHA-256: 09823e31aa7d5f838bce47f0dce992d8eabff2c573818fe31547e7cc28b7c27e
font_01_sfnt_off0000e7d6.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xE7D6 9956 bytes
SHA-256: 60f88a0ea57e1fc71157ee1dbf7e0dd62b927a471cd383715513f537d904d2eb