Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 afd087a7177380b6…

MALICIOUS

PDF

74.3 KB Created: 2021-04-26 21:48:06 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7) First seen: 2021-06-30
MD5: 8f5da57aa74814605ca1e42bc05787cb SHA-1: 2cb32bc15828dc4a7fe8265b8e5c322612ce04ba SHA-256: afd087a7177380b6fe56ad89b806f7434b26a1dcc2c524aec7dd2567c04b1df5
126 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The ML classifier and ClamAV detection strongly indicate malicious intent. The PDF contains numerous embedded URLs, many pointing to potentially compromised or malicious domains, suggesting a link farm or phishing lure. While no scripts were explicitly extracted, the PDF structure and heuristic firings like 'PDF_SEO_DISPOSABLE_LINK_FARM' point towards an attempt to redirect users to external malicious content.

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.dgs-interparts.be/sites/default/files/60165950635.pdf In PDF document text
    • https://www.woonsocketri.org/system/temporary/webform/konoju.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.cdcplumbing.com/sites/default/files/webform/contact-us/sawifujemenolezaf.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://architecturaldesigninc.com/sites/default/files/36110977311.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.sumnercountyhospital.org/sites/default/files/webform/sixativitav.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.blplegal.com/sites/default/files/webform/89971565628.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.enwidth.com/sites/default/files/webform/resumes/90018929780.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://aboss.by/sites/default/files/webform/pibodanagulevegomenet.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ambrose.edu/sites/default/files/webform/nakevatekiviva.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.grotekeukens.be/sites/default/files/webform/gmawards2018/87706268510.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.ofalloncasting.com/sites/default/files/webform/gegemapoxazokex.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/skout/mBVl/~3/LPIa9PGmDLg/uplcv?utm_term=what+are+the+physics+conceptsPDF link annotation
    • https://gradfutures.princeton.edu/system/files/webform/86626084736.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ec.europa.eu/eip/agriculture/sites/default/files/webform/zuwamusijugowop.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://lib.asu.edu/system/files/webform/46247033309.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://lib.asu.edu/system/files/webform/bidemuf.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://campusrec.princeton.edu/system/files/webform/rilawadabovoxilezevateg.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_off0000d8db.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xD8DB 4892 bytes
SHA-256: b66c84b0b90ed7a7d797d505996ddc9be44d3b57ecab5581dc699da402740ba4
font_01_sfnt_off0000e978.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xE978 10968 bytes
SHA-256: b17d2e39bb67902454649a6106d1fc7d92ef0157994578886bad42040e577839
font_02_sfnt_off00010e63.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x10E63 4324 bytes
SHA-256: ff5f0ef16caf3e97cd1984b3a03ea88e11eab8cf63d2ee006085a4b9995833f3