Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 c9b97779e4b0e50c…

MALICIOUS

PDF

75.6 KB Created: 2021-04-16 06:16:41 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7) First seen: 2021-06-30
MD5: 4b6047bdc2ea44f26ca097a3b7beacbd SHA-1: 54e1b3c683e34678307ef3279d464bde1a73e812 SHA-256: c9b97779e4b0e50cbacccdeb23341feb40fec205ce1def77a9829146522de09a
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. The document body, though heavily obfuscated, contains references to product names and model numbers, suggesting a lure to trick users. The presence of numerous embedded URLs pointing to various domains, many of which are unknown or suspicious, further supports the phishing or malware distribution intent. No scripts were extracted, but the PDF structure and embedded links are indicative of a malicious campaign.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9999

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://pilgrimland.com/sites/default/files/webform/resume-uploads/64296936159.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://pilgrimland.com/sites/default/files/webform/resume-uploads/69774832497.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://spotlight-sites.com/sites/default/files/webform/44923699615.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.termis.org/system/files/webform/67198091979.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.natsihwa.org.au/sites/default/files/webform/welukugipevodabarovefeweb.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.woonsocketri.org/system/temporary/webform/makepepatamizozixijefawop.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.natsihwa.org.au/sites/default/files/webform/dalobasowi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.muttypawsacademy.com/sites/default/files/webform/vaccines/40041164747.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://europa-ts.ru/sites/default/files/webform/6529842099.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://cicatsalud.com/html/sites/default/files/webform/buvonajevomowetizebijix.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/A3Ryygt5BCM/uplcv?utm_term=black+and+decker+food+processor+model+fp1800bPDF link annotation
    • https://www.vub.be/sites/vub/files/webform/43319512550.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://community.princeton.edu/system/files/webform/42655509772.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://drones.princeton.edu/system/files/webform/voretazejujuwewoz.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ec.europa.eu/eip/agriculture/sites/default/files/webform/vifixofixif.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ec.europa.eu/eip/agriculture/sites/default/files/webform/77241298986.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.ice.cam.ac.uk/sites/www.ice.cam.ac.uk/files/webform/68876097481.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.healthdata.org/sites/default/files/resumes/53082175038.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_off0000e599.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xE599 5944 bytes
SHA-256: 199eca33e13ba75bc8f1b46378307e46107733a32cb2e84c3086640adb2ba0f8
font_01_sfnt_off0000f9be.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF9BE 11704 bytes
SHA-256: 2c1d70955b478a53478c9ca6f88c5c12c95a592e41595ced6717c0ef0230440d

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