Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 c7c2f57e43d02712…

MALICIOUS

PDF

120.0 KB Created: 2021-04-16 21:09:34 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7) First seen: 2021-05-29
MD5: 63d7783ad8b56ff86ea541892a9f8e9c SHA-1: 17f3a6e16574a164fe1022aee0bac9e293d18383 SHA-256: c7c2f57e43d0271221e3feeea07bbd4108e6688395879b7ef1b6e2fcdbc331a8
126 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF file was flagged by ML classifiers and ClamAV as malicious, specifically as a phishing trojan. It contains a large number of embedded URLs, many pointing to unknown or potentially malicious domains, suggesting a link farm designed to redirect users. While no scripts were explicitly extracted, the PDF structure and the high number of external links indicate an attempt to lead the user to a malicious site, likely for phishing or malware delivery.

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 https://extranet.blanchisserie-toulousaine-de-sante.com/sites/extranet.blanchisserie-toulousaine-de-sante.com/files/documents/justificatifs/bariwogutal.pdf In PDF document text
    • https://www.mainephilanthropy.org/sites/default/files/guvobirewuge.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://pilgrimland.com/sites/default/files/webform/resume-uploads/jokefogebefuzifuzew.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.friendlycc.com/sites/default/files/webform/topevonizudurazot.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://architecturaldesigninc.com/sites/default/files/36110977311.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.dgs-interparts.be/sites/default/files/viwiredozilopuvotudulufez.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ambrose.edu/sites/default/files/webform/fenalop.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.osgeurope.com/sites/osg-corporate.dev/files/webform/3563422068.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.friendlycc.com/sites/default/files/webform/98819861428.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.osgeurope.com/sites/osg-corporate.dev/files/webform/zizepuniket.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://aboss.by/sites/default/files/webform/vobefoxejajizagosoberob.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.newburghgroup.com/sites/default/files/webform/resumes/mogewewe.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/1eyvgo/aqOO/~3/1xuhb7AK25c/uplcv?utm_term=symbol+scanner+programming+sheet+cs3070PDF link annotation
    • https://printandmail.princeton.edu/system/files/webform/67925993666.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://printandmail.princeton.edu/system/files/webform/26360011081.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.vub.be/sites/vub/files/webform/43319512550.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://minorsoncampus.princeton.edu/system/files/webform/fujixedapilevunagujos.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ec.europa.eu/eip/agriculture/sites/default/files/webform/77241298986.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://dejavu.sourceforge.netIn PDF document text
    • http://dejavu.sourceforge.net/wiki/index.php/LicenseIn PDF document text

Extracted artifacts 3

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
font_00_sfnt_off00017bab.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x17BAB 6080 bytes
SHA-256: 5d475b2c6bade627273e9d81f542b3d6a424bb9bd1b42999d09745c23a2331ff
font_01_sfnt_off00019032.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x19032 13708 bytes
SHA-256: 1058c8cfbe43848ef45613b61ceca46adbd32dec014c7b4028ee6ff6a724867e
font_02_sfnt_off0001bddd.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x1BDDD 16092 bytes
SHA-256: 78e01a7a6136ddf0c994a311ff069c47b68cca607dacfa0833a94a83a26a5818