Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 d20048800265ff5c…

MALICIOUS

PDF

76.0 KB Created: 2021-04-13 19:27:40 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7) First seen: 2021-05-23
MD5: 3b92991478276bab44b04f109c8d1066 SHA-1: b14653a7059059b958bf13e5fb298b0887262d5a SHA-256: d20048800265ff5c7f638467b50674f579774d4a3ae1810033f0acd27b41d216
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, indicating a high likelihood of malicious intent. The heuristic 'PDF_SEO_DISPOSABLE_LINK_FARM' suggests the document is designed to host numerous links, potentially for phishing or malware distribution. Although no scripts were explicitly extracted, the presence of embedded URLs and the overall structure point towards an attempt to redirect users to malicious sites.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9998

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://www.guninetwork.org/system/files/webform/heirri_proposals/80098342864.pdf In PDF document text
    • https://natsihwa.org.au/sites/default/files/webform/kixeje.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.pbttphtk.gov.my/sites/default/files/webform/1232685222.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.jwico.com/sites/default/files/webform/monufugabezexi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.pacificsportfraservalley.com/sites/default/files/webform/93322629498.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://russian-ice-spb.ru/sites/default/files/webform/files/97818084314.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.natsihwa.org.au/sites/default/files/webform/51762260361.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ambrose.edu/sites/default/files/webform/kepasibadugemefobovabo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.osgeurope.com/sites/osg-corporate.dev/files/webform/zizepuniket.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://aboss.by/sites/default/files/webform/vobefoxejajizagosoberob.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.grotekeukens.be/sites/default/files/webform/gmawards2018/sumeli.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.woonsocketri.org/system/temporary/webform/kebadewanizokodijixupid.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://web.liderpapel.com/sites/default/files/webform/36759883892.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.pbttphtk.gov.my/sites/default/files/webform/32056102714.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/In PDF document text
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/typedesigners.htmlIn PDF document text
    • http://www.daltonmaag.com/In PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Uplcv/~3/6naE_Nh8_CY/uplcv?utm_term=lenovo+ideapad+u310PDF link annotation
    • https://community.princeton.edu/system/files/webform/40347257249.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 3

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
font_00_sfnt_off0000dfb6.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xDFB6 4808 bytes
SHA-256: 3e830925345fe26f35f27b2e42b419146bf9b4ab552dbd95d752626b443df9ee
font_01_sfnt_off0000f023.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF023 10712 bytes
SHA-256: 2ba3192464c5e1c2a6999cbb147288df36e47f6b979d62d03690185f65d73a93
font_02_sfnt_off000114c3.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x114C3 4324 bytes
SHA-256: b50a2106bf82917db0cd3cf88f63c5e8cc3298b343ace5cffc591b35df33d24c