Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 b5bad034d9df46fc…

MALICIOUS

PDF

117.1 KB Created: 2021-04-07 15:01:21 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7) First seen: 2021-05-29
MD5: c2e2d6b794ed831dfe8711fe63087eb9 SHA-1: 51f8adb445a877779d53dc1f931ded9d64424232 SHA-256: b5bad034d9df46fced3599b9962ea8d3b071021cefe490712b69c78c35bb7921
126 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF contains numerous embedded URLs, many of which are hosted on seemingly legitimate domains but point to suspicious PDF files. The 'PDF_SEO_DISPOSABLE_LINK_FARM' heuristic indicates a pattern of using multiple distinct hosts for a large number of links, suggesting an attempt to obscure malicious intent. The ML classifier and ClamAV detection strongly indicate malicious content, likely a phishing or malware distribution lure.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9899

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.osgeurope.com/sites/osg-corporate.dev/files/webform/tajiwugebewozebukak.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://www.pbttphtk.gov.my/sites/default/files/webform/73261430544.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.osgeurope.com/sites/osg-corporate.dev/files/webform/47147916176.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.enwidth.com/sites/default/files/webform/resumes/43403042061.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.woonsocketri.org/system/temporary/webform/mupiroto.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.blplegal.com/sites/default/files/webform/8025899801.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://cicatsalud.com/html/sites/default/files/webform/99368311749.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://aboss.by/sites/default/files/webform/vobefoxejajizagosoberob.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://aboss.by/sites/default/files/webform/89266631471.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://seiary.com/sites/default/files/webform/rec/pexutagizoniged.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.jwico.com/sites/default/files/webform/71926652616.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://web.liderpapel.com/sites/default/files/webform/dojoxopanikofogenag.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://oaklandchildcare.org/sites/default/files/webform/85278691340.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://extranet.blanchisserie-toulousaine-de-sante.com/sites/extranet.blanchisserie-toulousaine-de-sante.com/files/documents/justificatifs/ratasivovo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.blplegal.com/sites/default/files/webform/piselusani.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
    • http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Uplcv/~3/S30rS-6n6vg/uplcv?utm_term=tactics+for+toeic+pdf+gratisPDF link annotation
    • https://printandmail.princeton.edu/system/files/webform/mizol.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://drones.princeton.edu/system/files/webform/dovekilubexuvizufak.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.ice.cam.ac.uk/sites/www.ice.cam.ac.uk/files/webform/10713621665.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://community.princeton.edu/system/files/webform/26098210740.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
    • https://savannah.gnu.org/projects/freefont/In PDF document text
    • http://www.gnu.org/licenses/In PDF document text
    • http://www.gnu.org/copyleft/gpl.htmlIn 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 8

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
font_00_sfnt_off00010fd9.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x10FD9 6420 bytes
SHA-256: 8b51c81349aa16ef3427ac9dfc76f3e9a7cf41f1acddffa22a4dc21d6ff3ea94
font_01_sfnt_off00011f86.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x11F86 6672 bytes
SHA-256: 226aeff6bd2e591d69ce70ad5a80c019dc63a244843938d32f43a411c6726335
font_02_sfnt_off0001363f.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x1363F 4920 bytes
SHA-256: 5e24303675e0f14af331128833d193e151b4ca190fe65fc5ef745f7148625ec6
font_03_sfnt_off000146c9.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x146C9 6384 bytes
SHA-256: 70be442e4316085e344f22a6c8072cad3d2467e23faa6004d2c4bdf45701c858
font_04_sfnt_off00015658.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x15658 19888 bytes
SHA-256: 5e95bb8ae0148f68c1f99941192666e02e7c5bca3212b48d7f2382c602da8cd1
font_05_sfnt_off00018fa1.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x18FA1 16956 bytes
SHA-256: d8771a410ebb013fe4c0e7f69e354d7f1b3f4a67fc2f8ccf280f2fbf3f58a711
font_06_sfnt_off0001a7cf.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x1A7CF 4324 bytes
SHA-256: 1158d95dac44631f497756703988ba3645251422e7ff0015d3fca430225e7c3e
font_07_sfnt_off0001b591.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x1B591 6180 bytes
SHA-256: 0200a1359d6cd5152130a30a3cd4f2b28639aa6ad4ea9f79ae4d1c138ff695dc