Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 c47ed37beed9adf3…

MALICIOUS

PDF

69.6 KB Created: 2021-04-16 11:31:43 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7) First seen: 2021-09-27
MD5: cbb4beac6a70571cb49638bcc149320c SHA-1: 767f2527a7fe2e23dc5cd83db28528ae7e707233 SHA-256: c47ed37beed9adf3a15798ede6f6475a0a3ef818e0bb8b332a690e60c570ad3c
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 domains that appear to be part of a link farm designed to obscure the true destination. The ML classifier and ClamAV detection strongly indicate malicious intent, likely for phishing or malware distribution. While no scripts were explicitly extracted, the PDF structure and embedded URIs suggest it's designed to redirect users to potentially harmful sites.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9997

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 https://ambrose.edu/sites/default/files/webform/9979090083.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://oaklandchildcare.org/sites/default/files/webform/wafawujozovu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://cicatsalud.com/html/sites/default/files/webform/28693943460.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.osgeurope.com/sites/osg-corporate.dev/files/webform/7486912807.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://cicatsalud.com/html/sites/default/files/webform/dekif.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.a1touchsolution.nl/sites/default/files/wozupidojenebimovom.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.sumnercountyhospital.org/sites/default/files/webform/bavowusakixonodokuja.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.grotekeukens.be/sites/default/files/webform/gmawards2018/41850888982.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.grotekeukens.be/sites/default/files/webform/gmawards2018/sumeli.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/Om9ozkHLxGw/uplcv?utm_term=how+to+do+the+big+7+divisionPDF link annotation
    • https://umatter.princeton.edu/system/files/webform/requests/roporopapoviz.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.ice.cam.ac.uk/sites/www.ice.cam.ac.uk/files/webform/wosevojowavinojefe.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://lib.asu.edu/system/files/webform/sikukuditizituxabisezopel.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://thesanfordschool.asu.edu/sites/default/files/webform/xumigisapiwonatidokababup.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://printandmail.princeton.edu/system/files/webform/zupedofijemurak.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

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Extracted artifacts 2

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
font_00_sfnt_off0000d537.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xD537 5084 bytes
SHA-256: 1227582154bea3f5386141e09f2d59d5c8808d57a4f9900a1a6194d4f9a77dd4
font_01_sfnt_off0000e6a2.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xE6A2 10224 bytes
SHA-256: ed6943778f692edbe7bd19b6daf26b51f9d6058b8065d7084f19c1c200f1432c

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