Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 a134a26fd15fae03…

MALICIOUS

PDF

71.9 KB Created: 2021-04-11 02:27:49 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7) First seen: 2021-05-26
MD5: 84e1ef4aab3a13ca1c4336a28c7cebc5 SHA-1: 476f6207d1d880be1f01b869e7c43bd140cb6538 SHA-256: a134a26fd15fae032847ff1558300c2b6238220c2ec39459f81c2775616bac67
126 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF contains numerous embedded URLs, many of which are hosted on unknown or suspicious domains, suggesting a link farm or phishing lure. The ML classifier and ClamAV detection strongly indicate malicious intent. While no scripts were explicitly extracted, the PDF structure and embedded URIs are characteristic of phishing campaigns that aim 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 https://www.ofalloncasting.com/sites/default/files/webform/gegemapoxazokex.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://klm3fg.grhosting.cz/sites/default/files/webform/files/kokibilelage.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://spotlight-sites.com/sites/default/files/webform/sugugijokasu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.mothercare.ro/sites/default/files/webform/resumes/tizagoge.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.a1touchsolution.nl/sites/default/files/35095474677.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ambrose.edu/sites/default/files/webform/nakevatekiviva.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.natsihwa.org.au/sites/default/files/webform/tesogiruzan.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ambrose.edu/sites/default/files/webform/58588935603.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://natsihwa.org.au/sites/default/files/webform/mufuwujaxerafesa.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ambrose.edu/sites/default/files/webform/bunovodedodasu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://cicatsalud.com/html/sites/default/files/webform/24974410021.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.enwidth.com/sites/default/files/webform/resumes/lerudaxalopavowurugepoviw.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://russian-ice-spb.ru/sites/default/files/webform/files/69309865186.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.uts.cw/sites/default/files/webform/58994315224.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/A3Ryygt5BCM/uplcv?utm_term=como+se+dice+escuincle+en+nahuatlPDF link annotation
    • https://campusrec.princeton.edu/system/files/webform/putiwokareviwe.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://community.princeton.edu/system/files/webform/luzixuganigofifabeja.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_off0000d9e4.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xD9E4 4988 bytes
SHA-256: 6e7b8baf92f4585d0326b4b1d2fed62c026b56320dbc212db6beb26d08be9edd
font_01_sfnt_off0000eaac.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xEAAC 11876 bytes
SHA-256: f3e67c50cd79ee21836553ba02a35c9f73c9c4e5f39c1f5a8148e9cd1201fe66