Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 c5f7ebbab0f9d077…

MALICIOUS

PDF

77.0 KB Created: 2021-04-12 06:47:17 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7) First seen: 2021-06-28
MD5: 3c800ffab9414526ba0cba3907a5088e SHA-1: 5d380987fa0c67c887c0320eee8b2990c77c9325 SHA-256: c5f7ebbab0f9d077f9a7dd738a5c2ee3fdaddfc62fa0c45ce6740d9135b9a266
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 suspicious domains and are flagged as a link farm. The ML classifier and ClamAV detection strongly indicate malicious intent, likely phishing or malware distribution. Although no scripts were explicitly extracted, the PDF structure and embedded URIs suggest it's designed to redirect users to potentially harmful 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.birdlifebotswana.org.bw/sites/default/files/webform/sightings-sketches/43600748611.pdf In PDF document text
    • https://grossenbacher.co.nz/en/system/files/avoidance-training-certificates/13178745316.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.friendlycc.com/sites/default/files/webform/fajabenofedutetigolexid.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.pbttphtk.gov.my/sites/default/files/webform/nolukaronedibikix.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://europa-ts.ru/sites/default/files/webform/81905598419.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://russian-ice-spb.ru/sites/default/files/webform/files/69309865186.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.pbttphtk.gov.my/sites/default/files/webform/88462653206.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.natsihwa.org.au/sites/default/files/webform/86947183128.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.osgeurope.com/sites/osg-corporate.dev/files/webform/kanuvanirarotugawabu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.a1touchsolution.nl/sites/default/files/rowiduw.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.muttypawsacademy.com/sites/default/files/webform/vaccines/30199048500.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.birdlifebotswana.org.bw/sites/default/files/webform/sightings-sketches/bikepekeroluxujopabiko.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/In PDF document text
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/typedesigners.htmlIn PDF document text
    • http://www.opentle.orgIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Uplcv/~3/ngfLrbzwjls/uplcv?utm_term=norton+anthology+of+english+literature+9th+edition+volume+dPDF link annotation
    • https://www.vub.be/sites/vub/files/webform/86005813007.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://community.princeton.edu/system/files/webform/tujuxegagisezemesolut.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://drones.princeton.edu/system/files/webform/65601020807.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://lib.asu.edu/system/files/webform/46247033309.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://minorsoncampus.princeton.edu/system/files/webform/27732669772.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
    • http://www.gnu.org/licenses/gpl.htmlIn PDF document text

Extracted artifacts 3

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
font_00_sfnt_off0000deb0.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xDEB0 5608 bytes
SHA-256: 6c6f2fd2cee45a11aab055ee364cccbeda0dc44778d1506e8bbd53be1a5211c4
font_01_sfnt_off0000f1a4.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF1A4 6068 bytes
SHA-256: d2d10b6b0c668cf26faa9347c7054f8580c7eefa5cb7aecda2a4fba74bd025f0
font_02_sfnt_off00010155.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x10155 10708 bytes
SHA-256: 1a835b1c2be3e83fa864931a2e4eb4466c0bfe55ed7eb96726fd205878fa65dc

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