Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 bd9b9a2eb018bbd6…

MALICIOUS

PDF

74.0 KB Created: 2021-04-07 06:58:23 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7) First seen: 2021-06-20
MD5: a01b52514bafea10dbe3c70dda891d5d SHA-1: e9b4c1c278d935b102046e9689b36469eddffa0e SHA-256: bd9b9a2eb018bbd68ec1ab9dda9fd0e13bc6eb81e0d7f645ed95138b5afdd419
124 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF file was flagged by a machine learning classifier and ClamAV as malicious, specifically as a phishing trojan. Heuristics indicate it functions as a link farm, directing users to multiple external PDF documents hosted on various domains. While no scripts were directly extracted, the nature of the link farm suggests a phishing or malware distribution attempt, likely initiated via spearphishing.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.8714

Heuristics 4

  • 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
  • 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://cicatsalud.com/html/sites/default/files/webform/99368311749.pdf In PDF document text
    • https://ambrose.edu/sites/default/files/webform/fabifuturofutip.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.sumnercountyhospital.org/sites/default/files/webform/vetasitumuwogemukuruv.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.mothercare.ro/sites/default/files/webform/resumes/susumijifiwef.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.pharoxglobal.com/sites/default/files/webform/27804174203.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://grossenbacher.co.nz/en/system/files/avoidance-training-certificates/tatemomolefifepa.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://grossenbacher.co.nz/en/system/files/avoidance-training-certificates/13178745316.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.pbttphtk.gov.my/sites/default/files/webform/42283273604.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/In PDF document text
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/typedesigners.htmlIn PDF document text
    • http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Uplcv/~3/PmAiG5ZyT-k/uplcv?utm_term=acastus+knight+command+terminal+pdfPDF link annotation
    • https://campusrec.princeton.edu/system/files/webform/wawojamifot.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ubmemeaensoprod.s3.amazonaws.com/ifsec_international/call_for_papers/2021/03/60395266702.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://community.princeton.edu/system/files/webform/40347257249.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ubmemeaensoprod.s3.amazonaws.com/ifsec_international/call_for_papers/2021/03/woragirewun.pdfIn 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_off0000db14.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xDB14 3048 bytes
SHA-256: 1892116cda38db3859f3fa98e26e567ac5b36f9dd926533c449d616054d54a90
font_01_sfnt_off0000e5dc.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xE5DC 5624 bytes
SHA-256: 8cfb8ef330e014d9f13b9ad9d1052de8e089d9eb8ff3614c56931b3275584ef9
font_02_sfnt_off0000f8d1.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF8D1 12000 bytes
SHA-256: bd08560b1b7a75a146c500ecfc003cdb2c0eb10b78571c3964650efdb51210ae