Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 9d5978521024804f…

MALICIOUS

PDF

93.1 KB Created: 2021-04-18 23:57:24 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7) First seen: 2021-05-29
MD5: 6742421b148f11a12cb663e259c39108 SHA-1: e9a2ab8292de49b5f283ac21eafe17ddc947a0b1 SHA-256: 9d5978521024804f91b95a5f20279a488439238b59139605d35576b0d81bb12b
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 disposable or unknown hosting, and is flagged as a link farm. The ML classifier and ClamAV detection strongly indicate malicious intent, likely for phishing or distributing further malware. Although no scripts were explicitly extracted, the PDF structure and URL patterns suggest it's designed to redirect users to malicious sites.

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.guninetwork.org/system/files/webform/heirri_proposals/74543186253.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://www.pbttphtk.gov.my/sites/default/files/webform/nolukaronedibikix.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ambrose.edu/sites/default/files/webform/kubuxodadiwozubak.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.osgeurope.com/sites/osg-corporate.dev/files/webform/28911573484.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.grotekeukens.be/sites/default/files/webform/gmawards2018/48103714077.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://russian-ice-spb.ru/sites/default/files/webform/files/42282539280.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://russian-ice-spb.ru/sites/default/files/webform/files/69309865186.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.termis.org/system/files/webform/67198091979.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/fzgW7-mxBc0/uplcv?utm_term=2008+honda+accord+dash+lights+flickerPDF link annotation
    • https://printandmail.princeton.edu/system/files/webform/31356988355.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://lib.asu.edu/system/files/webform/midari.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://printandmail.princeton.edu/system/files/webform/83605599331.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://printandmail.princeton.edu/system/files/webform/60959229638.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://campusrec.princeton.edu/system/files/webform/16616798570.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://thesanfordschool.asu.edu/sites/default/files/webform/xumigisapiwonatidokababup.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_off00012e00.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x12E00 5720 bytes
SHA-256: 2b0a075879116e5cff890ce7023b3d1d811524a21f5ebd2e8df2deb06ec2cf00
font_01_sfnt_off0001416d.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x1416D 11156 bytes
SHA-256: 20e9cef5b8af8e06fe4f87dbdf905e7f31b1348d46ef45986c32d89ff5fc21a0

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