Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 910bd8f763431acf…

MALICIOUS

PDF

68.8 KB Created: 2021-04-23 05:31:52 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7) First seen: 2021-10-11
MD5: 0cd42207228a75c43bd55ba7ebf7387e SHA-1: 92e233fa02d3a2fcf084b621be84be7a40de9fe3 SHA-256: 910bd8f763431acf31f8ed65677d57c7bea052bf75dab3e48d5aebb8f89f016c
126 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

This PDF file was flagged as malicious by ML classifiers and ClamAV, indicating it is likely a phishing or trojan delivery mechanism. The document body, though heavily obfuscated, appears to be a lure related to product instructions. The presence of numerous embedded URLs, many pointing to disposable or suspicious domains, suggests an attempt to redirect users to malicious content or download further payloads. No scripts were extracted, but the overall structure and URL distribution are consistent with a phishing campaign.

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://vectorcorp.net/sites/default/files/webform/resume/86303695333.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://www.pbttphtk.gov.my/sites/default/files/webform/zoxajetuvu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ambrose.edu/sites/default/files/webform/61928937085.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://extranet.blanchisserie-toulousaine-de-sante.com/sites/extranet.blanchisserie-toulousaine-de-sante.com/files/documents/justificatifs/goxara.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.newburghgroup.com/sites/default/files/webform/resumes/mogewewe.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.jwico.com/sites/default/files/webform/49109440539.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ambrose.edu/sites/default/files/webform/58588935603.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.cdcplumbing.com/sites/default/files/webform/contact-us/65589142167.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.a1touchsolution.nl/sites/default/files/26511902049.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.a1touchsolution.nl/sites/default/files/larigujumikanezazezogiwi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://oaklandchildcare.org/sites/default/files/webform/veser.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.pharoxglobal.com/sites/default/files/webform/garuwofewitenobakufenewi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.muttypawsacademy.com/sites/default/files/webform/vaccines/65827293628.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ambrose.edu/sites/default/files/webform/71048230710.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ambrose.edu/sites/default/files/webform/82598578892.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/~3/3CAf4wW3hvY/uplcv?utm_term=everstart+jump+starter+1200a+instructionsPDF link annotation
    • https://ubmemeaensoprod.s3.amazonaws.com/ifsec_international/call_for_papers/2021/03/kozavexol.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.healthdata.org/sites/default/files/resumes/nufimogunuzin.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.healthdata.org/sites/default/files/resumes/muvebijamalixodimobowase.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_off0000cf89.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xCF89 5464 bytes
SHA-256: 6663f97ed967e47a6b9b4f09a58a0ac88ae1d911ca0b33e619a735dc50be3978
font_01_sfnt_off0000e21d.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xE21D 10552 bytes
SHA-256: 7f5a6c0fda8caeaa351c7fa23fb3ecb3a835374389e9e35287aa69ca41193a98