Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 bd9691ec9bef3cbe…

MALICIOUS

PDF

72.9 KB Created: 2021-04-14 08:31:12 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7) First seen: 2021-05-26
MD5: f8c5ace26c4b0860a9232cbd07d55759 SHA-1: 71413fbc946ef9ed35dc33eb76eb7563ebeaba72 SHA-256: bd9691ec9bef3cbea579dc1fe5aa7c9595733c931a5215a27c2783a5590e1c52
126 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF contains numerous embedded URLs, many of which point to disposable domains and are structured to appear as legitimate file downloads. The heuristic 'PDF_SEO_DISPOSABLE_LINK_FARM' indicates a pattern of creating numerous links on potentially compromised or disposable websites. The ML classifier and ClamAV detection strongly suggest malicious intent, likely to redirect users to phishing sites or download further malicious content.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9998

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 http://www.grotekeukens.be/sites/default/files/webform/gmawards2018/dakatiwilu.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://oaklandchildcare.org/sites/default/files/webform/34869944823.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://aboss.by/sites/default/files/webform/zivexovoburowunaxomenip.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ambrose.edu/sites/default/files/webform/rebunedirewe.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.osgeurope.com/sites/osg-corporate.dev/files/webform/povufukawonafano.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.friendlycc.com/sites/default/files/webform/85881129832.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ambrose.edu/sites/default/files/webform/71027525942.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://seiary.com/sites/default/files/webform/rec/6045441545.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://extranet.blanchisserie-toulousaine-de-sante.com/sites/extranet.blanchisserie-toulousaine-de-sante.com/files/documents/justificatifs/ziseriwutekezarog.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.friendlycc.com/sites/default/files/webform/74296331991.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.sumnercountyhospital.org/sites/default/files/webform/vetasitumuwogemukuruv.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ambrose.edu/sites/default/files/webform/gewematumupam.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.friendlycc.com/sites/default/files/webform/tojatovovezugunubi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.sumnercountyhospital.org/sites/default/files/webform/sinuwoxifazuroli.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/skout/mBVl/~3/3CAf4wW3hvY/uplcv?utm_term=intel+phone+flash+tool+litePDF link annotation
    • https://ec.europa.eu/eip/agriculture/sites/default/files/webform/76225898136.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://thesanfordschool.asu.edu/sites/default/files/webform/43157208480.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_off0000d53b.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xD53B 4620 bytes
SHA-256: b329bac1c4932539432e67f01cbfac25578817a67227cf5fe1181c8602c01a4d
font_01_sfnt_off0000e4d7.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xE4D7 10540 bytes
SHA-256: 91093a7891fbf3267c31728c57d57ffc2bc6bfa125111a6499a9a1783cbeb80a
font_02_sfnt_off000108df.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x108DF 4324 bytes
SHA-256: d1f4a20f0e35a0564be54678b929bb8c711862c507f070c2b9a6abea8daf4378