Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 b96eb12e8bc478df…

MALICIOUS

PDF

75.3 KB Created: 2021-04-23 22:49:55 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7) First seen: 2021-05-26
MD5: 26a8dd7f5cc9703f2eb47e41fb2db472 SHA-1: 6cb46d75aba401e737a074a68fa54232ad454e43 SHA-256: b96eb12e8bc478df2c8532d3a9da2c401acfe70a014cf7f32917db1a27804cea
166 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment T1204.002 User Execution: Malicious File

The sample is a PDF document flagged by ML classifiers and ClamAV as malicious. Heuristics indicate it uses a browser extension installation lure, a common social-engineering technique to trick users into downloading further malware or divulging credentials. The document body is heavily obfuscated, but the presence of external URIs and the overall detection suggest a phishing or malware delivery attempt.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9997

Heuristics 6

  • ClamAV: Pdf.Phishing.Trojan-d2568dad23a94d95-d2568dad23a94d95-10044375-0 critical CLAMAV_DETECTION
    ClamAV detected this file as malware: Pdf.Phishing.Trojan-d2568dad23a94d95-d2568dad23a94d95-10044375-0
  • Browser extension / update installation lure high SE_BROWSER_INSTALL_LURE
    Document tells the user to install a browser extension, plugin, viewer, or browser update to view content — a common social-engineering path for credential theft and malware installation
  • 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 http://www.muttypawsacademy.com/sites/default/files/webform/vaccines/17184396690.pdf In PDF document text
    • https://www.a1touchsolution.nl/sites/default/files/dovav.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://architecturaldesigninc.com/sites/default/files/56675633315.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.blplegal.com/sites/default/files/webform/25596831819.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://natsihwa.org.au/sites/default/files/webform/degajakuko.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://vectorcorp.net/sites/default/files/webform/resume/tefofavokalozigukar.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.enwidth.com/sites/default/files/webform/resumes/zozagosetimof.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ambrose.edu/sites/default/files/webform/durigoxilakomisi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.a1touchsolution.nl/sites/default/files/rowiduw.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.telluridescience.org/sites/default/files/tstc-applications/38780162719.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.enwidth.com/sites/default/files/webform/resumes/sojinikud.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ambrose.edu/sites/default/files/webform/seliruni.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://extranet.blanchisserie-toulousaine-de-sante.com/sites/extranet.blanchisserie-toulousaine-de-sante.com/files/documents/justificatifs/niroxopewesanusogub.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/1eyvgo/aqOO/~3/1xuhb7AK25c/uplcv?utm_term=how+to+install+directv+player+on+chromebookPDF link annotation
    • https://minorsoncampus.princeton.edu/system/files/webform/45540448673.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.ice.cam.ac.uk/sites/www.ice.cam.ac.uk/files/webform/tivajojisepizoni.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ec.europa.eu/eip/agriculture/sites/default/files/webform/5272012193.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://printandmail.princeton.edu/system/files/webform/zixulupuritijidegebi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://minorsoncampus.princeton.edu/system/files/webform/27732669772.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://campusrec.princeton.edu/system/files/webform/18758627140.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://printandmail.princeton.edu/system/files/webform/fasulegok.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_off0000e691.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xE691 5732 bytes
SHA-256: cf622c24d617d375eb99af129b0d97edd82406e2b687159ce386b82a212650e0
font_01_sfnt_off0000f9f5.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF9F5 10672 bytes
SHA-256: 044090cfc1f3292c872485031d31ac53e2b24020c18c67918e0ba1a1ab87b087