Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 c99812effb523bcd…

MALICIOUS

PDF

70.6 KB Created: 2021-04-22 02:51:18 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7) First seen: 2021-05-22
MD5: 27f361bfed29fd9a0e548c66d5e996a9 SHA-1: 43e94ee7fbb3d3abf177f9b4f6224c03092e0e74 SHA-256: c99812effb523bcdbda80e52940cff9fb34472aeffea531e84c436cd757e2b90
126 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The file was detected by ClamAV as Pdf.Phishing.Trojan and an ML classifier returned a high probability of maliciousness. It contains numerous embedded URLs, many of which point to potentially suspicious domains, suggesting a link farm or redirection mechanism. The PDF structure and embedded content indicate an attempt to disguise malicious links within what appears to be document content.

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://www.ofalloncasting.com/sites/default/files/webform/68138040624.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://cicatsalud.com/html/sites/default/files/webform/39809543560.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.guninetwork.org/system/files/webform/heirri_proposals/nuxikovevevugodir.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://klm3fg.grhosting.cz/sites/default/files/webform/files/tekuxegejarikuferibo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.natsihwa.org.au/sites/default/files/webform/86947183128.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.enwidth.com/sites/default/files/webform/resumes/ziwisotug.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://aboss.by/sites/default/files/webform/89266631471.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.termis.org/system/files/webform/98565071062.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://extranet.blanchisserie-toulousaine-de-sante.com/sites/extranet.blanchisserie-toulousaine-de-sante.com/files/documents/justificatifs/vinoku.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/fzgW7-mxBc0/uplcv?utm_term=creatista+plus+vs+lattissima+touchPDF link annotation
    • https://printandmail.princeton.edu/system/files/webform/42849177422.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.vub.be/sites/vub/files/webform/piwolumubixu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://lib.asu.edu/system/files/webform/90369837207.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://drones.princeton.edu/system/files/webform/voretazejujuwewoz.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://gradfutures.princeton.edu/system/files/webform/xafuzekimizitigemuseli.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_off0000d953.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xD953 5140 bytes
SHA-256: 89eb188bcd2f018c6824026628574924c3313b9940bd2b6faba657442272d93f
font_01_sfnt_off0000ea9f.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xEA9F 10408 bytes
SHA-256: cac2cd7b77efed3866162fbc138f12a39af1978435bdd16e84b34c5906991613