Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 912d3bfadefce0a3…

MALICIOUS

PDF

74.5 KB Created: 2021-04-08 21:53:25 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7) First seen: 2021-05-26
MD5: 3fdff5d7f96894ea7b67b72e11be0c1e SHA-1: 02345717955f2c33366f0eac2e722e10baa0411a SHA-256: 912d3bfadefce0a347b555cac1ecefe23cc2ff23d3e02f31ae378969cc6e18b3
126 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF contains numerous embedded URLs pointing to disposable domains, characteristic of a link farm used for phishing or malware distribution. The ML classifier and ClamAV detection strongly indicate malicious intent. While no scripts were directly extracted, the PDF structure and URL patterns suggest it's designed to redirect users to malicious content.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9999

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://www.muttypawsacademy.com/sites/default/files/webform/vaccines/lomaxitafuvutatu.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://oaklandchildcare.org/sites/default/files/webform/dakorudi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.newburghgroup.com/sites/default/files/webform/resumes/woxofenobe.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://oaklandchildcare.org/sites/default/files/webform/subeditanutojodojewogize.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ambrose.edu/sites/default/files/webform/fabifuturofutip.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.muttypawsacademy.com/sites/default/files/webform/vaccines/nojezajewi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.a1touchsolution.nl/sites/default/files/larigujumikanezazezogiwi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.a1touchsolution.nl/sites/default/files/xofarazenufokedakuzos.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ambrose.edu/sites/default/files/webform/seliruni.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://portal-mysigma.com/system/files/student-proof/tevesifisota.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.visitsavannah.com/sites/default/files/webform/71260674720.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/Om9ozkHLxGw/uplcv?utm_term=axones+mielinicos+y+amielinicos+pdfPDF link annotation
    • https://lib.asu.edu/system/files/webform/90369837207.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://gradfutures.princeton.edu/system/files/webform/49692556615.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ec.europa.eu/eip/agriculture/sites/default/files/webform/zuwamusijugowop.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://minorsoncampus.princeton.edu/system/files/webform/tuvoluxasivawujunaz.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_off0000e25e.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xE25E 5364 bytes
SHA-256: 85da1aaebcfb45b40d03afb59241e264579221d8248fab0ebfd6c35c3452b45d
font_01_sfnt_off0000f4a0.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF4A0 11856 bytes
SHA-256: ad47339dd4805d430a32f35e022dd6a2fbf0658acf3d5a4fef1d3b0f2518dfd2