Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 cf2dbded68f4dc2c…

MALICIOUS

PDF

92.8 KB Created: 2021-04-12 19:50:02 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7) First seen: 2021-05-29
MD5: c2f3b3f8edd636af132d2ed973620529 SHA-1: 31159d0cc7d0d86cbe5a859569d3855a00d0f343 SHA-256: cf2dbded68f4dc2c354adba7e4afd116293fcaa45b433651124938a535e58d90
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, many of which point to domains that appear to be part of a link farm designed to redirect users. The document body is heavily obfuscated, preventing a clear understanding of its specific lure, but the overall structure and URL distribution suggest a phishing or malware distribution attempt.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9968

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/2923424149.pdf In PDF document text
    • https://www.natsihwa.org.au/sites/default/files/webform/17947704001.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.ofalloncasting.com/sites/default/files/webform/tasuwagorefovufozibojer.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.muttypawsacademy.com/sites/default/files/webform/vaccines/lozege.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.ofalloncasting.com/sites/default/files/webform/taxebuvokorutupimapo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://cicatsalud.com/html/sites/default/files/webform/28693943460.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.blplegal.com/sites/default/files/webform/pifijolaj.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.birdlifebotswana.org.bw/sites/default/files/webform/sightings-sketches/12812059159.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://europa-ts.ru/sites/default/files/webform/totikejeropisatuzubafaba.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/Om9ozkHLxGw/uplcv?utm_term=libros+sobre+conservacion+de+alimentPDF link annotation
    • 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_off000128c8.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x128C8 5224 bytes
SHA-256: 2a6b729b9a466f7d1e8eedc508769287c09245870079d2febbf989027a3054e4
font_01_sfnt_off00013a7f.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x13A7F 13252 bytes
SHA-256: 8a631b3251166acea6c0eac0fc355a9168d40ab14d7c0fca87a5196b17abc471

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