Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 984e1c29030566ce…

MALICIOUS

PDF

77.5 KB Created: 2021-04-08 17:30:29 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7) First seen: 2021-05-29
MD5: 312b0671347f3eb8466c356a286f3b41 SHA-1: c57ed2ae4e62613884935202ba4dd325f2f137d0 SHA-256: 984e1c29030566ce1864f3b6a3159429a8d72af7139c81ebf8e073067cf3bced
126 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF was flagged by ML classifiers and ClamAV as malicious, specifically as a phishing trojan. Heuristics indicate it functions as a link farm, with numerous embedded URLs pointing to various domains, some of which are unknown or potentially disposable. The primary purpose appears to be directing users to external sites, likely for malicious activities such as phishing or malware delivery.

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 http://russian-ice-spb.ru/sites/default/files/webform/files/69309865186.pdf In PDF document text
    • https://www.enwidth.com/sites/default/files/webform/resumes/58607877977.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.uts.cw/sites/default/files/webform/tidenopuzi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://pilgrimland.com/sites/default/files/webform/resume-uploads/41345860665.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ambrose.edu/sites/default/files/webform/7968200385.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://aboss.by/sites/default/files/webform/8474239295.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.osgeurope.com/sites/osg-corporate.dev/files/webform/kanuvanirarotugawabu.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/S30rS-6n6vg/uplcv?utm_term=biomass+energy+technology+pdfPDF link annotation
    • https://www.ice.cam.ac.uk/sites/www.ice.cam.ac.uk/files/webform/wosevojowavinojefe.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://minorsoncampus.princeton.edu/system/files/webform/tuvoluxasivawujunaz.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://lib.asu.edu/system/files/webform/vabomabexajamoja.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://community.princeton.edu/system/files/webform/fivedexexefo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://community.princeton.edu/system/files/webform/36479690150.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_off0000f1e2.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF1E2 5720 bytes
SHA-256: 20528bad4b974b131c8954f1b96ca86d8dcb98856031ad0b3ee60df12a87afaf
font_01_sfnt_off00010534.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x10534 10504 bytes
SHA-256: 4a660dc0c19e422b121ce4a3e267089219059ecd68248206d857ac85c6fa87e3

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