Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 8a4c789ea2bd55fc…

MALICIOUS

PDF

81.2 KB Created: 2021-04-11 05:22:54 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7) First seen: 2021-05-29
MD5: 9795c927366f807ac0cde342a7572ce6 SHA-1: a5816083864cbdbd226798aa48e3b9b32d8cc0b7 SHA-256: 8a4c789ea2bd55fc1b8612d1f0527e33841fb563bb7a51643871c69c294c8943
126 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF file was flagged by ML classifiers and ClamAV as malicious, specifically as a phishing trojan. It contains numerous embedded URLs, many of which point to potentially compromised or malicious domains, suggesting an attempt to redirect users to phishing or malware-hosting sites. The heuristic 'PDF_SEO_DISPOSABLE_LINK_FARM' indicates a tactic of using numerous links on disposable hosting to obscure the true malicious destination.

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://www.ofalloncasting.com/sites/default/files/webform/66890294103.pdf In PDF document text
    • https://grossenbacher.co.nz/en/system/files/avoidance-training-certificates/tatemomolefifepa.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://cicatsalud.com/html/sites/default/files/webform/65000750087.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://cicatsalud.com/html/sites/default/files/webform/28693943460.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ambrose.edu/sites/default/files/webform/42416127327.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.newburghgroup.com/sites/default/files/webform/resumes/tikijoti.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.osgeurope.com/sites/osg-corporate.dev/files/webform/tafunowusovuna.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.woonsocketri.org/system/temporary/webform/54194604641.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.birdlifebotswana.org.bw/sites/default/files/webform/sightings-sketches/13349970620.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.jwico.com/sites/default/files/webform/minokoniniwige.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ambrose.edu/sites/default/files/webform/rebunedirewe.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.guninetwork.org/system/files/webform/heirri_proposals/gafazibo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.pbttphtk.gov.my/sites/default/files/webform/74795851198.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/zMnd8XtcwSM/uplcv?utm_term=democracia+como+estilo+de+vidaPDF link annotation
    • https://minorsoncampus.princeton.edu/system/files/webform/posilo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://campusrec.princeton.edu/system/files/webform/34970544405.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://drones.princeton.edu/system/files/webform/xakunowegetudirojevogejiw.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_off00010171.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x10171 5144 bytes
SHA-256: a6e3ca8e322bd235d8dce8c23353c093a04251baef46888a875959630eefb664
font_01_sfnt_off000112db.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x112DB 11692 bytes
SHA-256: 88c44db1e32230da79add2b777fbb844741169eb9dfa05ea4074cee6f907c353

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