Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 9b0d0224d3406077…

MALICIOUS

PDF

67.5 KB Created: 2021-04-24 07:29:27 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7) First seen: 2021-06-04
MD5: bfb5df6908f1bde04fd8246f71499651 SHA-1: b81c094972919807e0264c6391c7a8488138d3e4 SHA-256: 9b0d0224d3406077d1556100c7d8870761bb5a1f2225f663b376fd0be55c1c46
126 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF file was flagged by ClamAV as Pdf.Phishing.Trojan and a machine learning model assigned a high probability of maliciousness. The document contains numerous embedded URLs, many of which point to unknown or potentially malicious domains, suggesting a link farm or phishing lure. While no scripts were explicitly extracted, the PDF structure and heuristic firings indicate it's designed to redirect users to external sites, likely for further exploitation.

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://aboss.by/sites/default/files/webform/89266631471.pdf In PDF document text
    • https://vectorcorp.net/sites/default/files/webform/resume/86303695333.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.grotekeukens.be/sites/default/files/webform/gmawards2018/dakatiwilu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://portal-mysigma.com/system/files/student-proof/62332338419.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.muttypawsacademy.com/sites/default/files/webform/vaccines/72246142748.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.woonsocketri.org/system/temporary/webform/makepepatamizozixijefawop.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.guninetwork.org/system/files/webform/heirri_proposals/nuxikovevevugodir.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.sumnercountyhospital.org/sites/default/files/webform/xubapubawaral.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/1eyvgo/aqOO/~3/1xuhb7AK25c/uplcv?utm_term=notas+del+himno+nacional+de+honduras+en+flautaPDF link annotation
    • https://minorsoncampus.princeton.edu/system/files/webform/fujixedapilevunagujos.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://thesanfordschool.asu.edu/sites/default/files/webform/fapivo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.healthdata.org/sites/default/files/resumes/sutuzosugogaw.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://gradfutures.princeton.edu/system/files/webform/pelafo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://community.princeton.edu/system/files/webform/wijudabopijobomoxusosul.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_off0000bd5f.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xBD5F 5112 bytes
SHA-256: 40132bf47dcb7cb1cdd2884381b67e6bd9609a8c5565fe6fa4e78547c8e4f0f8
font_01_sfnt_off0000ce93.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xCE93 10336 bytes
SHA-256: 924c8f4bbf5ccc0b4bea2a090cb063b036f44a16d22c9e524342fa40317ef327
font_02_sfnt_off0000f117.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF117 4324 bytes
SHA-256: 05d2457133b820fa77aa358e30e9acfbad3f04c46ced9a37296d9311117db176