Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 c7afd06dbc2ee32f…

MALICIOUS

PDF

68.8 KB Created: 2021-04-11 14:55:54 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7) First seen: 2021-05-29
MD5: 9f56ee688bb326059fcc24d3524ea813 SHA-1: 07462f72baab72fb70010c599722abcd4608b798 SHA-256: c7afd06dbc2ee32f28e1b12116d63dd38eaedce4a997e5a0204aa391613cabbc
126 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF file was flagged as malicious by ML classifiers and ClamAV, indicating a high likelihood of malicious intent. The document body, though heavily obfuscated, suggests a lure related to legal proceedings ('Mock trial opening statement example'). The presence of numerous embedded URLs pointing to link farms and disposable hosting, as identified by the PDF_SEO_DISPOSABLE_LINK_FARM heuristic, strongly suggests this PDF is designed to redirect users to malicious sites for further exploitation or phishing.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9995

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://seiary.com/sites/default/files/webform/rec/pexutagizoniged.pdf In PDF document text
    • https://www.pharoxglobal.com/sites/default/files/webform/balulata.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.pbttphtk.gov.my/sites/default/files/webform/vojazasazobixupolaxi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ambrose.edu/sites/default/files/webform/2306024917.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.enwidth.com/sites/default/files/webform/resumes/22435641867.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.termis.org/system/files/webform/manejuwavujegajejumoxak.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.uts.cw/sites/default/files/webform/96040264728.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://grossenbacher.co.nz/en/system/files/avoidance-training-certificates/13471650610.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/Uplcv/~3/3CAf4wW3hvY/uplcv?utm_term=mock+trial+opening+statement+examplePDF link annotation
    • https://minorsoncampus.princeton.edu/system/files/webform/wetesagepe.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://printandmail.princeton.edu/system/files/webform/50156150340.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_off0000cf99.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xCF99 5392 bytes
SHA-256: d9dcba34bd5433353e9d3854b5044c9a3532db33df7e8b969b8a49a0b42601a7
font_01_sfnt_off0000e1ee.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xE1EE 10996 bytes
SHA-256: 04fae15c37f89e770f4c5928495b1bb77ac2f30c7fbc97e5bc8fe46765d86c9e