Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 8c6fcbe85d8bcd69…

MALICIOUS

PDF

77.3 KB Created: 2021-04-07 00:21:03 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7) First seen: 2021-11-25
MD5: 317e90395323cdb9774beb7bc9eb097f SHA-1: b6630c0f2fdee1e98f0ef3343848893c51337594 SHA-256: 8c6fcbe85d8bcd69cccb14266ccd8efd6f8354e07ab38157b18367d0cd0229be
126 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The file was detected as malicious by ML classifiers and ClamAV, indicating a high likelihood of malicious intent. The PDF contains numerous embedded URLs, many of which point to unknown domains and appear to be part of a link farm, suggesting a phishing or redirection scheme. While no scripts were explicitly extracted, the PDF structure and heuristic firings strongly suggest it's designed to exploit vulnerabilities or trick users into visiting 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 http://seiary.com/sites/default/files/webform/rec/11252708720.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://oaklandchildcare.org/sites/default/files/webform/ponezilineg.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://aboss.by/sites/default/files/webform/tatesejozamelifat.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://russian-ice-spb.ru/sites/default/files/webform/files/zatepatepekaberemosigedix.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.pbttphtk.gov.my/sites/default/files/webform/1232685222.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.birdlifebotswana.org.bw/sites/default/files/webform/sightings-sketches/fipeforivu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.enwidth.com/sites/default/files/webform/resumes/paxifufal.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.guninetwork.org/system/files/webform/heirri_proposals/38059385999.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://vectorcorp.net/sites/default/files/webform/resume/sabaw.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.uts.cw/sites/default/files/webform/nukuromenalifaru.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://extranet.blanchisserie-toulousaine-de-sante.com/sites/extranet.blanchisserie-toulousaine-de-sante.com/files/documents/justificatifs/bariwogutal.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://pilgrimland.com/sites/default/files/webform/resume-uploads/69774832497.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/In PDF document text
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/typedesigners.htmlIn PDF document text
    • http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Uplcv/~3/A3Ryygt5BCM/uplcv?utm_term=building+management+system+design+pdfPDF link annotation
    • https://community.princeton.edu/system/files/webform/putirufulexuxibo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://printandmail.princeton.edu/system/files/webform/ziwilijevugibapuvoboka.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://campusrec.princeton.edu/system/files/webform/putiwokareviwe.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_off0000f483.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF483 5416 bytes
SHA-256: 06e22206e38677ca2da6099a7a66e8cf7c52784011469b6ee2eee8bca486c230
font_01_sfnt_off000106ef.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x106EF 9676 bytes
SHA-256: c85f11352422bdbd551b7b77a63e0e9d72f900f5502d6ede559b8787f9ca2999

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