Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 aa1f0d761144d6da…

MALICIOUS

PDF

108.6 KB Created: 2021-04-20 01:49:03 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7) First seen: 2021-05-29
MD5: 1fdf76dd3252a3e259842c57e653817b SHA-1: 2338c4f7c8d474d6138768b9d7d8093eb05caddb SHA-256: aa1f0d761144d6dacf9d8c4cb05be79cfb5365ef4ba7aab56d4ce71d2a3eb2e1
126 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF file was flagged by ML classifiers and ClamAV as malicious, specifically as a phishing trojan. Heuristics indicate it functions as a link farm, directing users to numerous external URLs, many of which are hosted on disposable domains. While no scripts were explicitly extracted, the PDF structure and embedded URLs suggest an attempt to redirect users to malicious content, likely for phishing or malware distribution.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9995

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/lipedoketuparukol.pdf In PDF document text
    • https://aboss.by/sites/default/files/webform/12404161593.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ambrose.edu/sites/default/files/webform/fabifuturofutip.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.pacificsportfraservalley.com/sites/default/files/webform/pulipalukegibivep.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ambrose.edu/sites/default/files/webform/65047245793.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://extranet.blanchisserie-toulousaine-de-sante.com/sites/extranet.blanchisserie-toulousaine-de-sante.com/files/documents/justificatifs/pefusoxewirevujilo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://grossenbacher.co.nz/en/system/files/avoidance-training-certificates/87762274679.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.telluridescience.org/sites/default/files/tstc-applications/38780162719.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://seiary.com/sites/default/files/webform/rec/6045441545.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.pacificsportfraservalley.com/sites/default/files/webform/newusagolepilukakatukus.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.jsif.org/sites/default/files/webform/vinuriruxelapaviwona.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/YTWXjIUwRh0/uplcv?utm_term=jeux+de+cartes+personnalis%25C3%25A9s+qu%25C3%25A9becPDF link annotation
    • https://minorsoncampus.princeton.edu/system/files/webform/xadumiwedom.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://lib.asu.edu/system/files/webform/bejugejotofetuxiw.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.vub.be/sites/vub/files/webform/16824703900.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://thesanfordschool.asu.edu/sites/default/files/webform/lezedatabamivija.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://umatter.princeton.edu/system/files/webform/requests/roporopapoviz.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.ice.cam.ac.uk/sites/www.ice.cam.ac.uk/files/webform/50075528518.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://dejavu.sourceforge.netIn PDF document text
    • http://dejavu.sourceforge.net/wiki/index.php/LicenseIn PDF document text

Extracted artifacts 4

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
font_00_sfnt_off00013fc7.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x13FC7 3104 bytes
SHA-256: 6872597149268a37546fb728609bd252995ed7defe5cfe42a48551cd686d3263
font_01_sfnt_off00014ae8.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x14AE8 5532 bytes
SHA-256: 473801bb26904a004255a253b162d3b71677c49f1e062f3995a77de0d6ae1d2f
font_02_sfnt_off00015d7c.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x15D7C 15208 bytes
SHA-256: eadd2e17a5688075880fcd08b25f7790dec14f258f9433cb2b76714e6df9f2a8
font_03_sfnt_off00018cd8.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x18CD8 16204 bytes
SHA-256: c988415812f594187b0a0ed75dc52802e798e1695b49bd300f8412a65040a449