Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 ca8d56c447534b1a…

MALICIOUS

PDF

72.7 KB Created: 2021-04-12 06:08:39 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7) First seen: 2021-05-29
MD5: b5b0179ea85493b3e73bbc05e832233e SHA-1: 0df60c313bd85fb324a653467bf334dd436801fc SHA-256: ca8d56c447534b1a142ca17d6b8b198b511b461a869d5fbe9a2a45c95ed9fdd9
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 numerous embedded URLs pointing to various domains, many of which appear to be part of a link farm designed to obscure the ultimate destination. The document body, though heavily obfuscated, suggests a lure related to 'kindergarten sight word list printable'. The presence of multiple external URIs and the link farm heuristic indicate an attempt to redirect the user to malicious 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.uts.cw/sites/default/files/webform/96040264728.pdf In PDF document text
    • https://ambrose.edu/sites/default/files/webform/fulakosilukubusovugatupus.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.guninetwork.org/system/files/webform/heirri_proposals/wozat.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://pilgrimland.com/sites/default/files/webform/resume-uploads/41345860665.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.osgeurope.com/sites/osg-corporate.dev/files/webform/27880179426.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.sumnercountyhospital.org/sites/default/files/webform/72664382884.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://cicatsalud.com/html/sites/default/files/webform/24974410021.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.termis.org/system/files/webform/98565071062.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://grossenbacher.co.nz/en/system/files/avoidance-training-certificates/basolidigululaba.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://russian-ice-spb.ru/sites/default/files/webform/files/40307308503.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/skout/mBVl/~3/LPIa9PGmDLg/uplcv?utm_term=kindergarten+sight+word+list+printablePDF link annotation
    • https://umatter.princeton.edu/system/files/webform/requests/72435273025.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://drones.princeton.edu/system/files/webform/vijebutipide.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://community.princeton.edu/system/files/webform/luzixuganigofifabeja.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.vub.be/sites/vub/files/webform/ludazerubadariwevulefaxu.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_off0000de27.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xDE27 5424 bytes
SHA-256: 936c02505e5c81615c25e6a76ba748d7a27b918ef77a5a79c2a1614058ed88a4
font_01_sfnt_off0000f0a1.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF0A1 10876 bytes
SHA-256: 0e93733b5073cca602892bcd37ce7d7ce2687cab97fe9559c391309fe37c364d

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