Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 ae0fccc9c0e2a403…

MALICIOUS

PDF

70.4 KB Created: 2021-04-23 01:27:04 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7) First seen: 2021-06-30
MD5: 11c38ae11f737ea1a1a9df00fa8be8ab SHA-1: 9eafd40b8f738b0d21b16b8bcc23bded84fc7225 SHA-256: ae0fccc9c0e2a4038419ee8a4089639bbf8612b472d75320bf85125453084b07
126 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The file is identified as malicious by ClamAV and an ML classifier, with heuristics indicating it functions as a link farm. The document body, though partially corrupted, contains a lure related to installing a cable box, directing users to external URLs. While no scripts were explicitly extracted, the PDF structure and link farm behavior suggest it's designed to redirect users to potentially malicious sites for phishing or malware distribution.

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 http://www.grotekeukens.be/sites/default/files/webform/gmawards2018/30150103061.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://www.muttypawsacademy.com/sites/default/files/webform/vaccines/89533113822.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.a1touchsolution.nl/sites/default/files/jonalizavilivoduse.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.friendlycc.com/sites/default/files/webform/tojatovovezugunubi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.termis.org/system/files/webform/nibobuzokojovafizuza.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.pacificsportfraservalley.com/sites/default/files/webform/90877516301.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.enwidth.com/sites/default/files/webform/resumes/ziwisotug.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.pbttphtk.gov.my/sites/default/files/webform/nolukaronedibikix.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.cdcplumbing.com/sites/default/files/webform/contact-us/65589142167.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.enwidth.com/sites/default/files/webform/resumes/58607877977.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ambrose.edu/sites/default/files/webform/26147793628.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://aboss.by/sites/default/files/webform/12404161593.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.osgeurope.com/sites/osg-corporate.dev/files/webform/7486912807.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/In PDF document text
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/typedesigners.htmlIn PDF document text
    • http://www.opentle.orgIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/skout/mBVl/~3/S30rS-6n6vg/uplcv?utm_term=how+to+install+xfinity+cable+boxPDF link annotation
    • https://www.vub.be/sites/vub/files/webform/ludazerubadariwevulefaxu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://minorsoncampus.princeton.edu/system/files/webform/vogifowisawab.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://thesanfordschool.asu.edu/sites/default/files/webform/83703622856.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://www.gnu.org/licenses/gpl.htmlIn PDF document text

Extracted artifacts 3

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
font_00_sfnt_off0000c926.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xC926 5140 bytes
SHA-256: a8e0ec36b60cf4d93820501786d4ae51b2cd545b77bd1ed9fb4dcbdcea5e1cd6
font_01_sfnt_off0000dacf.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xDACF 6068 bytes
SHA-256: 7a02da73c5ff24218d04b188db7d31ceb9303d5dedd43b645f18a615a19d9b6a
font_02_sfnt_off0000ea7f.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xEA7F 9936 bytes
SHA-256: 497fdca8e442aab6f519b0fd5be7f3da1504322489f086dc92d10b258dba7c0d