Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 b60f6974bcfbe1ab…

MALICIOUS

PDF

79.3 KB Created: 2021-04-13 22:03:20 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7) First seen: 2021-05-22
MD5: 766729b1357960ca6b60cdfe53ad367c SHA-1: f516da8b2454865c0fde3cb07f1381b03607f31e SHA-256: b60f6974bcfbe1abafdac2843d6bd2c665cfdcde53f5a4c51a6c4ee7b0158306
126 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF contains numerous embedded URLs and is flagged by ML classifiers and ClamAV as malicious, specifically as a phishing trojan. The document body, though heavily obfuscated, contains text related to 'Nonton film online ilk21', suggesting a lure for users seeking entertainment content. The presence of multiple disposable links and a link farm heuristic further supports a malicious intent, likely to redirect users to phishing or malware sites.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9997

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/7322176875.pdf In PDF document text
    • https://www.pharoxglobal.com/sites/default/files/webform/80628544521.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.grotekeukens.be/sites/default/files/webform/gmawards2018/jebumimebugamoto.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.grotekeukens.be/sites/default/files/webform/gmawards2018/98751459569.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.woonsocketri.org/system/temporary/webform/makepepatamizozixijefawop.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://portal-mysigma.com/system/files/student-proof/47432021317.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.pbttphtk.gov.my/sites/default/files/webform/vojazasazobixupolaxi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.natsihwa.org.au/sites/default/files/webform/welukugipevodabarovefeweb.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/1eyvgo/aqOO/~3/cv9VXjIrmdE/uplcv?utm_term=nonton+film+online+ilk21PDF link annotation
    • https://community.princeton.edu/system/files/webform/luzixuganigofifabeja.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ec.europa.eu/eip/agriculture/sites/default/files/webform/9071701793.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://printandmail.princeton.edu/system/files/webform/85064040694.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_off0000eeab.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xEEAB 4436 bytes
SHA-256: d1cfa9b919f607f2c4de8a46a91b77427e1080dd2acdd2d705d198b74d4c1b7c
font_01_sfnt_off0000fdae.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xFDAE 10800 bytes
SHA-256: f70316e9742ca4398db6e6cf47afc45be5124d5997f9deb1a7c103a701da76d6
font_02_sfnt_off00012254.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x12254 4324 bytes
SHA-256: b50a2106bf82917db0cd3cf88f63c5e8cc3298b343ace5cffc591b35df33d24c