Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 a45087689e2cbc97…

MALICIOUS

PDF

76.5 KB Created: 2021-04-16 08:16:25 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7) First seen: 2021-05-29
MD5: 84a0e757920339daebd41460c3ae7b28 SHA-1: d921cedd907f97a3720d69da62455104d9e178cb SHA-256: a45087689e2cbc97e4a53571fd7c8c59ccfc448dc0ff315a4ca5b91d95cfe937
126 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF file was flagged as malicious by ML classifiers and ClamAV, indicating a high likelihood of malicious intent. The document body, though heavily obfuscated, contains references to 'Trimble business center 2.7 free download', suggesting a lure for users seeking software. The presence of numerous external URIs, many pointing to PDF files on various domains, indicates a link farm designed to distribute or redirect users to malicious content, likely involving JavaScript execution within the PDF.

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.mainephilanthropy.org/sites/default/files/5296457674.pdf In PDF document text
    • https://ambrose.edu/sites/default/files/webform/58588935603.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.visitsavannah.com/sites/default/files/webform/71260674720.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.telluridescience.org/sites/default/files/tstc-applications/38780162719.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.a1touchsolution.nl/sites/default/files/26511902049.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.pbttphtk.gov.my/sites/default/files/webform/33269367294.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.telluridescience.org/sites/default/files/tstc-applications/nuwirofu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.natsihwa.org.au/sites/default/files/webform/bukitonixoravutewoluba.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://klm3fg.grhosting.cz/sites/default/files/webform/files/mimixinaxeralowevowijut.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://portal-mysigma.com/system/files/student-proof/47432021317.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/In PDF document text
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/typedesigners.htmlIn PDF document text
    • http://www.daltonmaag.com/In PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/1eyvgo/aqOO/~3/1KS0DP0cxss/uplcv?utm_term=trimble+business+center+2.7+free+downloadPDF link annotation
    • https://lib.asu.edu/system/files/webform/midari.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://thesanfordschool.asu.edu/sites/default/files/webform/31460711967.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://drones.princeton.edu/system/files/webform/zifogisabivaloxigisosobu.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 3

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
font_00_sfnt_off0000da18.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xDA18 5476 bytes
SHA-256: 21db4706cdec1625d8287eb40e67e4df7402f6cfb8e8344eac10e63ba33a3536
font_01_sfnt_off0000ecae.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xECAE 11764 bytes
SHA-256: b0a070bc1f1c09cddf1b394b75f86fe1fd41a85d7d51584a9278ecba30bf36ac
font_02_sfnt_off00011512.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x11512 4324 bytes
SHA-256: ff5f0ef16caf3e97cd1984b3a03ea88e11eab8cf63d2ee006085a4b9995833f3

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