Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 9b0d3a05d8f37bdd…

MALICIOUS

PDF

81.1 KB Created: 2021-04-24 02:32:01 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7) First seen: 2021-05-26
MD5: 97578a446e6c522f71fa427e57de3e98 SHA-1: 03d7f260e4ee70de0cb069b3958808294ab9f373 SHA-256: 9b0d3a05d8f37bdd29579f65d1d5e7fae3ee6cd46ac1a0959a1ed116f86a2111
126 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF file contains numerous embedded URLs, many of which point to disposable domains and are structured as link farms, a common tactic for phishing or malware distribution. The ML classifier and ClamAV detection strongly indicate malicious intent. Although no scripts were explicitly extracted, the PDF structure and embedded links suggest it's designed to redirect users to malicious sites, likely as part of a phishing campaign or to download further payloads.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9997

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.enwidth.com/sites/default/files/webform/resumes/wefegazeketalewawer.pdf In PDF document text
    • https://architecturaldesigninc.com/sites/default/files/sujuxot.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.cdcplumbing.com/sites/default/files/webform/contact-us/sawifujemenolezaf.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://seiary.com/sites/default/files/webform/rec/55418097166.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://russian-ice-spb.ru/sites/default/files/webform/files/69309865186.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ambrose.edu/sites/default/files/webform/11118021720.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.a1touchsolution.nl/sites/default/files/tarutemivejumariwara.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.muttypawsacademy.com/sites/default/files/webform/vaccines/37570077738.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://vectorcorp.net/sites/default/files/webform/resume/86303695333.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.mothercare.ro/sites/default/files/webform/resumes/topijetidilotifoga.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.jsif.org/sites/default/files/webform/95147346690.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/skout/mBVl/~3/Om9ozkHLxGw/uplcv?utm_term=difference+between+classical+and+keynesian+economicsPDF link annotation
    • https://ec.europa.eu/eip/agriculture/sites/default/files/webform/76225898136.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_off0000fe52.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xFE52 5564 bytes
SHA-256: 354c0d7565c33f17dc26acd583197c46c2f3fc84c9d95cfab18851a8350b536d
font_01_sfnt_off0001114d.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x1114D 11268 bytes
SHA-256: 1f8895c15496ebb4ed2fc4489b7d96cb748c5855fbdc230845eea294a7a111e5

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