Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 a24330181f64a725…

MALICIOUS

PDF

79.8 KB Created: 2021-04-11 04:49:42 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7) First seen: 2021-06-28
MD5: ed44bb1d4a54fac4877f2ac5b6916e68 SHA-1: ed92f5b7e9982c50d6977266caa9d7b81a3c4bf9 SHA-256: a24330181f64a725b6c7132d5ab523d77468995b4c1681b20d9dd7ae66cd3247
126 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF file contains heuristics indicating it is a link farm and has been flagged by ML classifiers and ClamAV as malicious phishing content. The document body, though heavily obfuscated, suggests a lure related to downloading content. The presence of embedded URLs, even if some are benign, points towards an attempt to redirect the user to external resources.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9994

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.jwico.com/sites/default/files/webform/vuvosiritixulufanili.pdf In PDF document text
    • https://ambrose.edu/sites/default/files/webform/58234525485.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.pbttphtk.gov.my/sites/default/files/webform/31626011693.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.mainephilanthropy.org/sites/default/files/nikosomonebazi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.natsihwa.org.au/sites/default/files/webform/72917344941.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.sumnercountyhospital.org/sites/default/files/webform/72664382884.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.natsihwa.org.au/sites/default/files/webform/welukugipevodabarovefeweb.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/In PDF document text
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/typedesigners.htmlIn PDF document text
    • http://scripts.sil.orgThisIn PDF document text
    • http://www.fontrix.comhttp://www.nhncorp.comIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/1eyvgo/aqOO/~3/1xuhb7AK25c/uplcv?utm_term=how+the+grinch+stole+christmas+download+in+hindiPDF link annotation
    • https://printandmail.princeton.edu/system/files/webform/60959229638.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://printandmail.princeton.edu/system/files/webform/mizol.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ec.europa.eu/eip/agriculture/sites/default/files/webform/zuwamusijugowop.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ubmemeaensoprod.s3.amazonaws.com/ifsec_international/call_for_papers/2021/03/wutiladerotegedubel.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
    • http://scripts.sil.org/In PDF document text
    • http://scripts.sil.org/OFLAbyssinicaIn PDF document text

Extracted artifacts 5

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
font_00_sfnt_off0000c5d7.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xC5D7 5408 bytes
SHA-256: aeba0e7978553593e4629ccb27171e8901ae82235976ed3d8460c5801da5115b
font_01_sfnt_off0000d820.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xD820 20968 bytes
SHA-256: 87985804ebf98b1030980f20b4e39595e1aa76caccafc3e7d64f2ca02509db1c
font_02_sfnt_off0000f851.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF851 2276 bytes
SHA-256: 5e0676e134781f2a21c06a0d045eebc95ad2f72f5ed7fc876ffdcead7ccbe471
font_03_sfnt_off0001021b.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x1021B 10684 bytes
SHA-256: 445aaaac37efed83f3c65252e924635b691e8e433e8eb77e0c1861f7c19b1879
font_04_sfnt_off000126b8.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x126B8 2056 bytes
SHA-256: e5f30af547b55dfbbae63869c45e93d04e829a64999393572a2275da8290585e