Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 d020dae00e21ec5c…

MALICIOUS

PDF

73.1 KB Created: 2021-04-27 09:35:35 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7) First seen: 2021-05-29
MD5: 8514708993047ed783eb98acf4a5113e SHA-1: a0adde43d34b1c1563310056d56f55249be06cf0 SHA-256: d020dae00e21ec5c9fa87351b8bfa7d3ed292e841369f0b4f6428b17334f3e3f
126 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF file contains numerous embedded URLs, many of which point to disposable domains and are structured as link farms. The ML classifier and ClamAV detection strongly indicate malicious intent, likely related to phishing or malware distribution. Although no scripts were explicitly extracted, the PDF structure and URL patterns suggest it's designed to redirect users to malicious sites.

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.enwidth.com/sites/default/files/webform/resumes/ralivowu.pdf In PDF document text
    • https://www.visitsavannah.com/sites/default/files/webform/nodarinit.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.osgeurope.com/sites/osg-corporate.dev/files/webform/tafunowusovuna.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://cicatsalud.com/html/sites/default/files/webform/65000750087.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.mainephilanthropy.org/sites/default/files/nikosomonebazi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.sumnercountyhospital.org/sites/default/files/webform/sinuwoxifazuroli.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.birdlifebotswana.org.bw/sites/default/files/webform/sightings-sketches/13349970620.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.pacificsportfraservalley.com/sites/default/files/webform/zajufofagobixipisuna.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.natsihwa.org.au/sites/default/files/webform/72789215659.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://web.liderpapel.com/sites/default/files/webform/36759883892.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/BkSY9tpko7c/uplcv?utm_term=is+system+analyst+a+good+careerPDF link annotation
    • https://gradfutures.princeton.edu/system/files/webform/48950823745.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://drones.princeton.edu/system/files/webform/65601020807.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://lib.asu.edu/system/files/webform/90369837207.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_off0000e1c0.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xE1C0 5296 bytes
SHA-256: 5a4e53d714a6d614d6081f6ed43ceebc60a57c824fec0e751ee93ceec808c07e
font_01_sfnt_off0000f3b4.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF3B4 10692 bytes
SHA-256: e637fc7a25bdd89139bc8c536950ac01f25b70d617a9144e2ad6960e6f37a669

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