Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 b45f9055316153a1…

MALICIOUS

PDF

68.4 KB Created: 2021-04-19 18:48:36 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7) First seen: 2021-10-11
MD5: 87e82445f845bcdcd81803f94a4fba79 SHA-1: dbaae2409d8fb1665769832a8a76bf9c7a05eee7 SHA-256: b45f9055316153a1a7b6890737b4ea93ab538c4ff948e4806c56f6f975d868a1
126 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF document contains numerous embedded URLs, many of which are disguised as legitimate resources but lead to potentially malicious sites. The ML classifier and ClamAV detection strongly indicate malicious intent, likely for phishing or malware distribution. While no scripts were explicitly extracted, the PDF structure and numerous external links suggest an attempt to redirect the user to malicious content.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9974

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.pharoxglobal.com/sites/default/files/webform/6669476875.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://www.muttypawsacademy.com/sites/default/files/webform/vaccines/2944445507.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.mothercare.ro/sites/default/files/webform/resumes/tawapiseligimagawawujimo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://cicatsalud.com/html/sites/default/files/webform/61943826361.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.woonsocketri.org/system/temporary/webform/mupiroto.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ambrose.edu/sites/default/files/webform/26147793628.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.woonsocketri.org/system/temporary/webform/viwubamonutimujogigifowi.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/Om9ozkHLxGw/uplcv?utm_term=how+to+write+an+outline+for+a+5+paragraph+essayPDF link annotation
    • https://thesanfordschool.asu.edu/sites/default/files/webform/xumigisapiwonatidokababup.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ubmemeaensoprod.s3.amazonaws.com/ifsec_international/call_for_papers/2021/03/52983615418.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_off0000cf9c.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xCF9C 5440 bytes
SHA-256: df179cee439c643aed282ee7e8f30b9032685fe6c3977a249fccb2367318e5e2
font_01_sfnt_off0000e235.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xE235 10176 bytes
SHA-256: 42effffa6538e92bb6acaf053fd1992d50abb9cb91a0dd65de0a314d3f82c33a

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