Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 c980e4e26c555f23…

MALICIOUS

PDF

68.7 KB Created: 2021-04-16 21:46:16 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7) First seen: 2021-05-29
MD5: 895876aa172759e8a6691703d63406a0 SHA-1: 59eae7a7f32ad580819df83f4377a20b048686c3 SHA-256: c980e4e26c555f238382717bc48007c315655b930ada5f480b397126283e95c2
126 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The sample was detected as malicious by ClamAV and an ML classifier, indicating a high likelihood of malicious intent. The PDF contains numerous embedded URLs, many of which point to disposable or unknown domains, suggesting a link farm or phishing lure. While no scripts were explicitly extracted, the PDF structure and embedded URLs are consistent with techniques used to redirect users to malicious sites for further exploitation.

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 http://oaklandchildcare.org/sites/default/files/webform/80411930416.pdf In PDF document text
    • https://www.enwidth.com/sites/default/files/webform/resumes/palepipob.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.friendlycc.com/sites/default/files/webform/74296331991.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.enwidth.com/sites/default/files/webform/resumes/21555212736.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://cicatsalud.com/html/sites/default/files/webform/86929885116.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.a1touchsolution.nl/sites/default/files/87400145234.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.grotekeukens.be/sites/default/files/webform/gmawards2018/84972388600.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/YTWXjIUwRh0/uplcv?utm_term=wisdom+of+the+enneagramPDF link annotation
    • https://minorsoncampus.princeton.edu/system/files/webform/45540448673.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://printandmail.princeton.edu/system/files/webform/83605599331.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://lib.asu.edu/system/files/webform/bejugejotofetuxiw.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.healthdata.org/sites/default/files/resumes/mevupuxapiledowitire.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.healthdata.org/sites/default/files/resumes/78922999772.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_off0000d2e5.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xD2E5 5304 bytes
SHA-256: eece0250025ddebedc0def7668bdeac013fbbe07a766c0fdc1e01b0a39edf5c4
font_01_sfnt_off0000e4d1.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xE4D1 10300 bytes
SHA-256: 4471d6ebf20d83122dc273bcf0191a5a5e02825c18b7c1254bfc23f4cf6cb692