Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 a9c7dd1e8e51d65b…

MALICIOUS

PDF

67.3 KB Created: 2021-04-17 12:32:18 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7) First seen: 2021-05-26
MD5: 2d19c780a98518476dd5733e22b0f18b SHA-1: 12c2ee8f86ecd9d68b0269f419d8a8546bd6f405 SHA-256: a9c7dd1e8e51d65bf6b51274e0dc1cfd9ad2ec8fd03c6757bd68c2ff2e6cecaa
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 domains or are part of a link farm, indicating a malicious intent to redirect users. ClamAV detection as 'Pdf.Phishing.Trojan' and ML classification strongly suggest maliciousness. While no scripts were directly extracted, the PDF structure and URL patterns are consistent with phishing or malware delivery attempts.

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.blplegal.com/sites/default/files/webform/58709767715.pdf In PDF document text
    • https://ambrose.edu/sites/default/files/webform/sudelo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.enwidth.com/sites/default/files/webform/resumes/79062027218.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://cicatsalud.com/html/sites/default/files/webform/kizosilubim.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ambrose.edu/sites/default/files/webform/lajeriz.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.jwico.com/sites/default/files/webform/monufugabezexi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://cicatsalud.com/html/sites/default/files/webform/86929885116.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://aboss.by/sites/default/files/webform/vobefoxejajizagosoberob.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.osgeurope.com/sites/osg-corporate.dev/files/webform/47147916176.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/1eyvgo/aqOO/~3/FevRqgeaUVY/uplcv?utm_term=stihl+ts400+carb+rebuild+kitPDF link annotation
    • https://gradfutures.princeton.edu/system/files/webform/25860956451.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://gradfutures.princeton.edu/system/files/webform/xafuzekimizitigemuseli.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://minorsoncampus.princeton.edu/system/files/webform/libovonudipiguriteg.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ec.europa.eu/eip/agriculture/sites/default/files/webform/sukazejaso.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_off0000c7e6.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xC7E6 5564 bytes
SHA-256: 642dac79a902c6df9a78eaa89466a787ce2c0e5190066d361793a33ff404c699
font_01_sfnt_off0000dac5.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xDAC5 11132 bytes
SHA-256: e5a23155c9e4c050740fa4b39a2c3f679eb1d96318fecf29525f1448a15afdc3

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