Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 92126e1d27656c91…

MALICIOUS

PDF

91.5 KB Created: 2021-04-16 03:03:48 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7) First seen: 2021-09-27
MD5: df22ef26e0146088917a2f951b03882b SHA-1: 06a2dd025ebb8bd28693714d0a8b7228e42afcf1 SHA-256: 92126e1d27656c91b54cb723a27b0877994b2e7e135fb6f0c171a5f1f2f67e16
124 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment T1204.002 Malicious Link

The PDF was flagged by a machine learning classifier and ClamAV as malicious, specifically as a phishing trojan. Heuristics indicate it functions as a link farm, containing numerous external URIs pointing to various domains. The document body, though heavily obfuscated, contains references to 'h2o x5 mop' and authoring application details, suggesting a potential lure or distraction.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.8659

Heuristics 4

  • 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
  • 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.enwidth.com/sites/default/files/webform/resumes/paxifufal.pdf In PDF document text
    • https://ambrose.edu/sites/default/files/webform/vojowavujelosapol.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.telluridescience.org/sites/default/files/tstc-applications/90077644064.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.ofalloncasting.com/sites/default/files/webform/zuloliresu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.muttypawsacademy.com/sites/default/files/webform/vaccines/37570077738.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://grossenbacher.co.nz/en/system/files/avoidance-training-certificates/3242210986.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.a1touchsolution.nl/sites/default/files/64517041799.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.sumnercountyhospital.org/sites/default/files/webform/vetasitumuwogemukuruv.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.mothercare.ro/sites/default/files/webform/resumes/42535902170.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.mainephilanthropy.org/sites/default/files/nikosomonebazi.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
    • https://ambrose.edu/sites/default/files/webform/seliruni.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://architecturaldesigninc.com/sites/default/files/bujepalifomi.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/~3/1KS0DP0cxss/uplcv?utm_term=is+the+h2o+x5+mop+any+goodPDF link annotation
    • http://scripts.sil.org/OFLIn PDF document text

Extracted artifacts 2

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
font_00_sfnt_off000131c1.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x131C1 5348 bytes
SHA-256: 3b99aa4bd3e34057ad3d473a0fe111ab72e3f12c1cc43fe8a6d6864c3f5a6c76
font_01_sfnt_off000143d8.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x143D8 11008 bytes
SHA-256: 3ddb3cbe6443cb25fffd9934214a89ea7ba06aa8f96b27d602d755c809ad56f6