Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 d023905f7a40e205…

MALICIOUS

PDF

68.6 KB Created: 2021-04-17 00:18:05 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7) First seen: 2021-05-26
MD5: 5246e0f1f12b7af98d79d08f29505c80 SHA-1: bf885dc13aa2fc38283a02bf4a522eccd3dc2ddc SHA-256: d023905f7a40e20578861b54110d0afe59af01853dca47aa395298cae2c2e130
126 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF was flagged by ML classifiers and ClamAV as malicious, specifically as a phishing trojan. The heuristic 'PDF_SEO_DISPOSABLE_LINK_FARM' indicates the PDF contains numerous links to potentially disposable domains, suggesting an attempt to obscure malicious destinations or engage in SEO manipulation for phishing. While no scripts were explicitly extracted, the presence of embedded URLs and the nature of the heuristics point towards a phishing or malware distribution attempt.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9995

Heuristics 5

  • ClamAV: Pdf.Phishing.Trojan-d2528dad23a95d95-d2528dad23a95d95-10044376-0 critical CLAMAV_DETECTION
    ClamAV detected this file as malware: Pdf.Phishing.Trojan-d2528dad23a95d95-d2528dad23a95d95-10044376-0
  • 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://aboss.by/sites/default/files/webform/10891008032.pdf In PDF document text
    • https://aboss.by/sites/default/files/webform/80384466065.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.muttypawsacademy.com/sites/default/files/webform/vaccines/2944445507.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ambrose.edu/sites/default/files/webform/26147793628.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://spotlight-sites.com/sites/default/files/webform/sizewavajifur.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.birdlifebotswana.org.bw/sites/default/files/webform/sightings-sketches/lewuxevibonotokezesa.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.grotekeukens.be/sites/default/files/webform/gmawards2018/sakobonomoduriv.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/~3/1xuhb7AK25c/uplcv?utm_term=the+maze+runner+actors+real+namesPDF link annotation
    • https://drones.princeton.edu/system/files/webform/65601020807.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://thesanfordschool.asu.edu/sites/default/files/webform/87767597376.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_off0000cee8.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xCEE8 5040 bytes
SHA-256: 84a7c6d27ea94aa11f235ea96e76134b27496a8858b205acf98d8c0da67caaa2
font_01_sfnt_off0000dfe0.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xDFE0 11116 bytes
SHA-256: d766e4273d6cf4b0b9b78978f0ed683046742eb0a648c3058c380f37e1b73729