Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 94681b231ae8e8fb…

MALICIOUS

PDF

70.0 KB Created: 2021-04-11 00:22:53 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7) First seen: 2021-05-22
MD5: 71c461d75111bdf53d832649dde97302 SHA-1: 15115bd28de04e45f96c19dc7912bcb179ac4335 SHA-256: 94681b231ae8e8fbd23a4144e727e300b5bb8f4226a898c990ef53e58febf60e
126 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF file was flagged by multiple heuristics, including a critical ClamAV detection for 'Pdf.Phishing.Trojan'. The presence of numerous embedded URLs, many pointing to potentially disposable domains, suggests a link farm or phishing infrastructure. Although no scripts were explicitly extracted, the PDF structure and the nature of the heuristics indicate it's designed to deceive users, likely as a phishing attachment.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9998

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 https://www.mothercare.ro/sites/default/files/webform/resumes/49428740932.pdf In PDF document text
    • https://aboss.by/sites/default/files/webform/89266631471.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.afscme65.org/system/files/webform/tikat.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://oaklandchildcare.org/sites/default/files/webform/85278691340.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://klm3fg.grhosting.cz/sites/default/files/webform/files/22206840813.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://cicatsalud.com/html/sites/default/files/webform/mulakipezumaxusilexuvu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.blplegal.com/sites/default/files/webform/8025899801.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.enwidth.com/sites/default/files/webform/resumes/58607877977.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://pilgrimland.com/sites/default/files/webform/resume-uploads/pakajumotarowumomudiro.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.uts.cw/sites/default/files/webform/tizodakemepegipupimegoxi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://seiary.com/sites/default/files/webform/rec/11252708720.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.pbttphtk.gov.my/sites/default/files/webform/238550972.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://spotlight-sites.com/sites/default/files/webform/loboje.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://spotlight-sites.com/sites/default/files/webform/4279473489.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://extranet.blanchisserie-toulousaine-de-sante.com/sites/extranet.blanchisserie-toulousaine-de-sante.com/files/documents/justificatifs/vawutudujenopudup.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/1eyvgo/aqOO/~3/3CAf4wW3hvY/uplcv?utm_term=free+comic+book+pricing+guidePDF link annotation
    • https://lib.asu.edu/system/files/webform/midari.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://community.princeton.edu/system/files/webform/42655509772.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_off0000d4f7.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xD4F7 5132 bytes
SHA-256: 6a4995e107638e90b69d4c2fc7727249dfdcc8ad60688dfaa7ce81cde093e1bd
font_01_sfnt_off0000e65a.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xE65A 10788 bytes
SHA-256: 9bde6be0f4dc45bd7dcb45225cdb2bb210bdf9b734386e85f99a420fb638b6b7