Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 96b0e68aa5ac2cc7…

MALICIOUS

PDF

64.0 KB Created: 2021-04-12 22:45:46 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7) First seen: 2021-05-29
MD5: bf6c6a7863457e578e958559352df3ce SHA-1: 1aa14d8d13f49407e443562d81c818c2d6f9bb75 SHA-256: 96b0e68aa5ac2cc7f99d798134772de21f1bf57f60dd2d5fd2132cffe1b38e88
126 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF contains numerous embedded URLs, many of which point to potentially malicious domains or link farms, as indicated by the PDF_SEO_DISPOSABLE_LINK_FARM heuristic. The ML classifier and ClamAV detection strongly suggest malicious intent. While no scripts were explicitly extracted, the presence of external URIs and the overall structure point towards a phishing or malware distribution attempt, likely initiated via a spearphishing attachment.

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://www.osgeurope.com/sites/osg-corporate.dev/files/webform/3563422068.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://www.grotekeukens.be/sites/default/files/webform/gmawards2018/30150103061.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.muttypawsacademy.com/sites/default/files/webform/vaccines/taxevoxasubosiwugudabi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://portal-mysigma.com/system/files/student-proof/47432021317.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.ofalloncasting.com/sites/default/files/webform/gegemapoxazokex.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ambrose.edu/sites/default/files/webform/gewematumupam.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.pacificsportfraservalley.com/sites/default/files/webform/joxelivoresilawefuxeli.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.grotekeukens.be/sites/default/files/webform/gmawards2018/gurolaxi.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/S30rS-6n6vg/uplcv?utm_term=vocabulary+workshop+enriched+editionPDF link annotation
    • https://www.ice.cam.ac.uk/sites/www.ice.cam.ac.uk/files/webform/xegenaxug.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://community.princeton.edu/system/files/webform/64301273598.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://thesanfordschool.asu.edu/sites/default/files/webform/lezedatabamivija.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_off0000bf23.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xBF23 5524 bytes
SHA-256: 630d2f495346a8a35c8b8d99d6df13ba1abe9095eb1f703187a14f889f141b2e
font_01_sfnt_off0000d1f4.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xD1F4 9796 bytes
SHA-256: 0b3f812a55600431aafbd557dd2095590d5606bf7da37b23cd20d6ca7c860e4e

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