Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 94175e335b311106…

MALICIOUS

PDF

70.0 KB Created: 2021-04-20 21:11:08 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7) First seen: 2021-05-29
MD5: 7f86f7b74e5cfd0798f83a9d9c069ce1 SHA-1: b7f433689bd65211d3df8085eec4272ecbe485e3 SHA-256: 94175e335b311106df853a3d7b6578667dbd9a0143606d6fa3e75f8544d3c9e0
126 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF contains numerous embedded URLs, many pointing to domains that appear to be part of a link farm, as indicated by the 'PDF_SEO_DISPOSABLE_LINK_FARM' heuristic. The ML classifier and ClamAV detection strongly suggest malicious intent, likely for phishing or distributing further malware. While no scripts were explicitly extracted, the structure and URL patterns are consistent with malicious PDF documents.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9997

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 http://cicatsalud.com/html/sites/default/files/webform/32675510575.pdf In PDF document text
    • https://www.a1touchsolution.nl/sites/default/files/wozupidojenebimovom.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://architecturaldesigninc.com/sites/default/files/sujuxot.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://web.liderpapel.com/sites/default/files/webform/xikamiwaboloz.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.a1touchsolution.nl/sites/default/files/larigujumikanezazezogiwi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.birdlifebotswana.org.bw/sites/default/files/webform/sightings-sketches/beporu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.jwico.com/sites/default/files/webform/minokoniniwige.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://vectorcorp.net/sites/default/files/webform/resume/30106672217.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://vectorcorp.net/sites/default/files/webform/resume/sabaw.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ambrose.edu/sites/default/files/webform/natogaj.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.guninetwork.org/system/files/webform/heirri_proposals/74543186253.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.enwidth.com/sites/default/files/webform/resumes/60015669747.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/A3Ryygt5BCM/uplcv?utm_term=what+are+the+strengths+and+weaknesses+of+transformational+leadershipPDF link annotation
    • https://www.vub.be/sites/vub/files/webform/fazarixi.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_off0000d599.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xD599 5624 bytes
SHA-256: aee017f0bbaf02e59bc1b490afc609ffd1b96cbe075ceb967473faf7f8828e5c
font_01_sfnt_off0000e8ab.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xE8AB 9960 bytes
SHA-256: efb99d1d4559a247f6c983de8eadb23cbc1bc07d045443165c5fb5ac6b21fbec

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