Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 d06b64bc08ac1270…

MALICIOUS

PDF

71.0 KB Created: 2021-04-11 01:00:03 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7) First seen: 2021-05-26
MD5: acf83bcb02305c382e8c1f48e03c6af5 SHA-1: 9ab887795a68935c3e03b1c1a785acb2287ea871 SHA-256: d06b64bc08ac12709dd5929f058bd8086e73ea9cd9722896200706d37ad0bf04
66 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF document was flagged by an ML classifier as malicious. It contains numerous embedded URLs, many of which point to disposable domains, and is structured as a link farm. While no scripts were explicitly extracted, the PDF structure and the presence of embedded URIs suggest it may be used to redirect users to malicious content or phishing sites, potentially via embedded JavaScript. The document body is heavily obfuscated and unreadable.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9997

Heuristics 4

  • 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.natsihwa.org.au/sites/default/files/webform/21073527915.pdf In PDF document text
    • https://www.mothercare.ro/sites/default/files/webform/resumes/77861868930.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.muttypawsacademy.com/sites/default/files/webform/vaccines/taxevoxasubosiwugudabi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.a1touchsolution.nl/sites/default/files/51131620028.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://pilgrimland.com/sites/default/files/webform/resume-uploads/pakajumotarowumomudiro.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://cicatsalud.com/html/sites/default/files/webform/jedirokadezat.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.dgs-interparts.be/sites/default/files/64751185730.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.pbttphtk.gov.my/sites/default/files/webform/zoxajetuvu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.ofalloncasting.com/sites/default/files/webform/68138040624.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.termis.org/system/files/webform/nibobuzokojovafizuza.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.ofalloncasting.com/sites/default/files/webform/gegemapoxazokex.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.osgeurope.com/sites/osg-corporate.dev/files/webform/nutuzisujobipusife.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/YTWXjIUwRh0/uplcv?utm_term=warframe+next+prime+vaultPDF link annotation
    • https://printandmail.princeton.edu/system/files/webform/68272747422.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_off0000d90f.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xD90F 5012 bytes
SHA-256: 4886a1343e6ae282a2eb67d7812b34e5d0bfa69d08dfd6e19fd2bb65d7f6df93
font_01_sfnt_off0000ea1b.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xEA1B 10792 bytes
SHA-256: 157e746323b9cccd3557a482e911dc5721a08d5fd7d29f8ae8682b34fc5837e9