Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 9f15b3dae97a194c…

MALICIOUS

PDF

70.5 KB Created: 2021-04-15 16:46:45 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7) First seen: 2021-05-26
MD5: 5aa457c158fad7001c2af603d85b7b0d SHA-1: bfc5acbbb170cb9aaa45ceb9c207b2d86412db10 SHA-256: 9f15b3dae97a194c8152304ca81ea58c67cfb8f91c285034f6b10f1f5dd26184
126 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF contains numerous embedded URLs, many pointing to disposable domains, and is flagged by heuristics 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 heuristic firings 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-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://www.uts.cw/sites/default/files/webform/dupoxemijuwavamuvugorudiz.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://www.sumnercountyhospital.org/sites/default/files/webform/bavowusakixonodokuja.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://portal-mysigma.com/system/files/student-proof/tevesifisota.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://vectorcorp.net/sites/default/files/webform/resume/tefofavokalozigukar.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://oaklandchildcare.org/sites/default/files/webform/85322732160.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ambrose.edu/sites/default/files/webform/fabifuturofutip.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.muttypawsacademy.com/sites/default/files/webform/vaccines/2944445507.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.pbttphtk.gov.my/sites/default/files/webform/vojazasazobixupolaxi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.osgeurope.com/sites/osg-corporate.dev/files/webform/tafunowusovuna.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.friendlycc.com/sites/default/files/webform/zuguxinukebezukul.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/Uplcv/~3/6naE_Nh8_CY/uplcv?utm_term=sat+math+sequence+problems+pdfPDF link annotation
    • https://lib.asu.edu/system/files/webform/sikukuditizituxabisezopel.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://drones.princeton.edu/system/files/webform/61493424170.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.ice.cam.ac.uk/sites/www.ice.cam.ac.uk/files/webform/xegenaxug.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.ice.cam.ac.uk/sites/www.ice.cam.ac.uk/files/webform/17420147243.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://minorsoncampus.princeton.edu/system/files/webform/xadumiwedom.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_off0000d28a.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xD28A 5764 bytes
SHA-256: 6fab60c53ecfcfc4a438cea0c2043d63c43899e07b3b657a573d0ddf8402e10e
font_01_sfnt_off0000e5f4.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xE5F4 11048 bytes
SHA-256: d027ae6c300aed50fa730ab390dded5f7c200c8d270e3d73c3034613d09b7ac6

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