Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 b904984149692d4c…

MALICIOUS

PDF

73.0 KB Created: 2021-04-14 19:02:50 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7) First seen: 2021-05-29
MD5: 1252d476f6e673f6f543d35332c51574 SHA-1: 2792379378ee5f2f7fcf4ff11a5a8b4ae19cf5db SHA-256: b904984149692d4cbf580d856b5afedf57fcdd26ca4eaa837d8ae55dceeb66f3
126 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF file was flagged by multiple heuristics, including a critical ClamAV detection and an ML classifier, indicating malicious intent. The presence of numerous embedded links, many pointing to unknown or potentially malicious domains, suggests a phishing or link-farming attack. While no scripts were explicitly extracted, the PDF structure and link farm heuristic point towards an attempt to redirect users to malicious content.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9997

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://europa-ts.ru/sites/default/files/webform/totikejeropisatuzubafaba.pdf In PDF document text
    • https://extranet.blanchisserie-toulousaine-de-sante.com/sites/extranet.blanchisserie-toulousaine-de-sante.com/files/documents/justificatifs/29410319198.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.dgs-interparts.be/sites/default/files/55949953827.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.uts.cw/sites/default/files/webform/bofuwidesuxugebogaxa.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.friendlycc.com/sites/default/files/webform/74296331991.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://spotlight-sites.com/sites/default/files/webform/93789740410.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.ofalloncasting.com/sites/default/files/webform/zuloliresu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.muttypawsacademy.com/sites/default/files/webform/vaccines/taxevoxasubosiwugudabi.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/LPIa9PGmDLg/uplcv?utm_term=algebra+age+word+problems+with+answersPDF link annotation
    • https://www.healthdata.org/sites/default/files/resumes/sametuzovu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://printandmail.princeton.edu/system/files/webform/60959229638.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://lib.asu.edu/system/files/webform/vabomabexajamoja.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://minorsoncampus.princeton.edu/system/files/webform/janoruzafasolefixos.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://printandmail.princeton.edu/system/files/webform/83605599331.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_off0000def7.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xDEF7 5592 bytes
SHA-256: 18a1ae444c8ad645b2f33acba1cf75a9c2b2511f9af9089f417e2e070d13062d
font_01_sfnt_off0000f1d6.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF1D6 10912 bytes
SHA-256: 87f8b949bcd12aaf14f74cbf49f31f7d39f842b986c4a5bf61d74671c192a069