Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 c2b60440da295024…

MALICIOUS

PDF

76.2 KB Created: 2021-04-14 21:22:20 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7) First seen: 2021-05-29
MD5: 9ef08dd31defe5b9f6f1804603192280 SHA-1: 009cd1d136836a33cf2d100bac73e40055dff58d SHA-256: c2b60440da295024a7ccbd82da8ad4fec4cc0ba0cfe7011b5c1c151dcab55814
134 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF contains numerous embedded URLs, many of which are hosted on unknown or potentially suspicious domains, suggesting a link farm designed to distribute malicious content. The heuristic 'PDF_SEO_DISPOSABLE_LINK_FARM' and the ClamAV detection 'Pdf.Phishing.Trojan-d2568dad23a94d95-d2568dad23a94d95-10044375-0' strongly indicate a phishing or malware distribution attempt. Although no scripts were explicitly extracted, the structure and URL patterns are consistent with a malicious PDF dropper.

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
  • 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.
  • Visual download / call-to-action button lure low SE_DOWNLOAD_BUTTON
    Document contains a call-to-action phrase ('Click here to download', 'Download Now', etc.) — low-signal unless other findings point to a malicious workflow
  • 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://klm3fg.grhosting.cz/sites/default/files/webform/files/22206840813.pdf In PDF document text
    • https://www.dgs-interparts.be/sites/default/files/41094691834.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.uts.cw/sites/default/files/webform/tidenopuzi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://oaklandchildcare.org/sites/default/files/webform/55178968397.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://extranet.blanchisserie-toulousaine-de-sante.com/sites/extranet.blanchisserie-toulousaine-de-sante.com/files/documents/justificatifs/vawutudujenopudup.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.dgs-interparts.be/sites/default/files/7838369457.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.sumnercountyhospital.org/sites/default/files/webform/zupusozuxabodes.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.guninetwork.org/system/files/webform/heirri_proposals/dagen.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://klm3fg.grhosting.cz/sites/default/files/webform/files/5308316073.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/Uplcv/~3/Om9ozkHLxGw/uplcv?utm_term=housefull+2+full+movie+free+downloadPDF link annotation
    • https://www.healthdata.org/sites/default/files/resumes/58023923203.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://thesanfordschool.asu.edu/sites/default/files/webform/85266863194.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://drones.princeton.edu/system/files/webform/dovekilubexuvizufak.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://lib.asu.edu/system/files/webform/delibenapu.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_off0000df98.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xDF98 5100 bytes
SHA-256: 362030af105bb0d1f33831fdbef46886c0ac2c2c8a97ecc4a1067407a1689fe2
font_01_sfnt_off0000f0e2.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF0E2 10724 bytes
SHA-256: a84c392bb3e63ef88b50add2470a87644fb440dca321055ce130c9e442b9c055
font_02_sfnt_off00011596.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x11596 4324 bytes
SHA-256: ce7e2e230a41ba6fc2d7d2240890c8289d67876d84a3d076d67c0b48111c8230