Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 c3e3be397bd9cfd6…

MALICIOUS

PDF

78.0 KB Created: 2021-04-22 09:51:40 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7) First seen: 2021-05-26
MD5: fa9fbba6ff35e24edbf4ecae8029249f SHA-1: 14c4e83ad3e74fc1a42682d12f4a4dc0dc09c35d SHA-256: c3e3be397bd9cfd6c4310e46c03ac02c68d2c2609979b9f9eca2d41bc8920542
126 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF was flagged by ML classifiers and ClamAV as malicious, specifically as a phishing trojan. It contains numerous embedded URLs, many of which point to suspicious domains, suggesting an attempt to redirect users to malicious sites. The document body, though heavily obfuscated, appears to be a lure related to a search query, consistent with phishing tactics.

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://russian-ice-spb.ru/sites/default/files/webform/files/42282539280.pdf In PDF document text
    • https://www.uts.cw/sites/default/files/webform/47116150145.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ambrose.edu/sites/default/files/webform/74647609277.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.enwidth.com/sites/default/files/webform/resumes/wefegazeketalewawer.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://web.liderpapel.com/sites/default/files/webform/53484808665.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.jwico.com/sites/default/files/webform/xojisipet.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.jts.org.jo/sites/default/files/webform/86196288468.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.uts.cw/sites/default/files/webform/vogoledifekotukedadawen.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/skout/mBVl/~3/BvfzZFkJO3s/uplcv?utm_term=what+is+the+word+bogey+meaningPDF link annotation
    • https://www.ice.cam.ac.uk/sites/www.ice.cam.ac.uk/files/webform/ruwitik.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://printandmail.princeton.edu/system/files/webform/60959229638.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.healthdata.org/sites/default/files/resumes/68382108709.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://printandmail.princeton.edu/system/files/webform/83401752781.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://minorsoncampus.princeton.edu/system/files/webform/fujixedapilevunagujos.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_off0000f51a.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF51A 5556 bytes
SHA-256: f46a3e7994158db5737df628de8a22563145f015649e41ba78d92dd1473b72d3
font_01_sfnt_off000107eb.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x107EB 10336 bytes
SHA-256: 762dea617ff0eb061060681b300f28d921db750f8c5ec86c56720ffc5fb49e52

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