Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 982e67619d5b5eb3…

MALICIOUS

PDF

72.7 KB Created: 2021-04-09 03:20:30 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7) First seen: 2021-05-29
MD5: 8911f4753f189d865ded6982734b74d8 SHA-1: 0aaaa48059ba105c2a1829618764176665936ef0 SHA-256: 982e67619d5b5eb3744d5a04c121fcebd790808814a1cef80c7e7a5d3d9edf02
126 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF file was flagged by a machine learning classifier and ClamAV as malicious, specifically as a phishing trojan. Heuristics indicate it functions as a link farm, embedding numerous external URLs, some of which are hosted on potentially disposable domains. While no scripts were explicitly extracted, the PDF structure and embedded links suggest an attempt to redirect users to malicious sites, likely for credential harvesting or further malware delivery.

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 http://www.pbttphtk.gov.my/sites/default/files/webform/73261430544.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://portal-mysigma.com/system/files/student-proof/28249136979.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.birdlifebotswana.org.bw/sites/default/files/webform/sightings-sketches/beporu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.pbttphtk.gov.my/sites/default/files/webform/3018222411.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.birdlifebotswana.org.bw/sites/default/files/webform/sightings-sketches/12812059159.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ambrose.edu/sites/default/files/webform/2306024917.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.blplegal.com/sites/default/files/webform/89971565628.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ambrose.edu/sites/default/files/webform/bunovodedodasu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.jsif.org/sites/default/files/webform/moridiwivomepagaduso.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/In PDF document text
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/typedesigners.htmlIn PDF document text
    • http://www.daltonmaag.com/In PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/skout/mBVl/~3/ngfLrbzwjls/uplcv?utm_term=arthritis+uk+shoulder+exercises+pdfPDF link annotation
    • https://printandmail.princeton.edu/system/files/webform/fasulegok.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://campusrec.princeton.edu/system/files/webform/4552140304.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://campusrec.princeton.edu/system/files/webform/wawojamifot.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 3

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
font_00_sfnt_off0000d569.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xD569 4932 bytes
SHA-256: 65ac237e5831d867161577c140680ec8372a0ead10619a06ad3017169d81e2e0
font_01_sfnt_off0000e64e.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xE64E 9904 bytes
SHA-256: 61bced202027d660ece2df05115bacaf6fb69bd9ed380b6c85adb34be9a44a9d
font_02_sfnt_off0001082a.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x1082A 4324 bytes
SHA-256: 9f355172d696dda274cac500966718f112ce76951f19577ac4888987ea6471b2

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