Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 ae6b742d24c826c0…

MALICIOUS

PDF

74.6 KB Created: 2021-04-16 19:53:09 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7) First seen: 2021-05-29
MD5: 4b27906ceae845ea826a57a0fc09f9d3 SHA-1: 03ff796e95269b7b201b462865263cbfa50029e3 SHA-256: ae6b742d24c826c0a1443410815c4c3b78fef51af3710d86ff2a7a78ce435f3a
134 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The file was detected as malicious by ClamAV and an ML classifier, with heuristics indicating it is a link farm and a potential invoice lure. While no scripts were explicitly extracted, the PDF structure and embedded URLs suggest an attempt to redirect the user to malicious content, likely for phishing or malware distribution. The presence of multiple unknown URLs further supports this assessment.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9998

Heuristics 6

  • 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.
  • Fake invoice / payment lure low SE_INVOICE_LURE
    Document contains invoice or payment language paired with an action verb — useful context when combined with link, macro, or attachment indicators
  • 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.pharoxglobal.com/sites/default/files/webform/50635107556.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://www.muttypawsacademy.com/sites/default/files/webform/vaccines/taxevoxasubosiwugudabi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.osgeurope.com/sites/osg-corporate.dev/files/webform/14219433733.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://oaklandchildcare.org/sites/default/files/webform/1289321409.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://europa-ts.ru/sites/default/files/webform/totikejeropisatuzubafaba.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.dgs-interparts.be/sites/default/files/55949953827.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://oaklandchildcare.org/sites/default/files/webform/85278691340.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://spotlight-sites.com/sites/default/files/webform/93789740410.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://oaklandchildcare.org/sites/default/files/webform/80411930416.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/Uplcv/~3/FevRqgeaUVY/uplcv?utm_term=what+is+integral+calculusPDF link annotation
    • https://ec.europa.eu/eip/agriculture/sites/default/files/webform/95830943344.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://minorsoncampus.princeton.edu/system/files/webform/kuwidiloj.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ec.europa.eu/eip/agriculture/sites/default/files/webform/vifixofixif.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://gradfutures.princeton.edu/system/files/webform/49692556615.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ec.europa.eu/eip/agriculture/sites/default/files/webform/27560642257.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_off0000e8f0.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xE8F0 5072 bytes
SHA-256: 9407213eb167011a9f918c028c49dae223b652d5fa7bace9f389db593f869f78
font_01_sfnt_off0000fa3b.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xFA3B 10568 bytes
SHA-256: c30daa39d049a4db20b10edbd5b5aaeec21e178f68c337268184daba20003f47

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