Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 d4f740227b742c6f…

MALICIOUS

PDF

70.6 KB Created: 2021-04-10 13:23:06 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7) First seen: 2021-06-17
MD5: 8d0b01a550fe91fafc858273282b557c SHA-1: 67ebacd6ae05cef9974734c2627a2e9da743aaa5 SHA-256: d4f740227b742c6f6215ff58809f16dd7a988c31c8f43b1d0f83c85fc3724dca
124 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF contains numerous embedded URLs disguised as a 'Perfect portions meal plan', which is a common lure for phishing or malware delivery. The PDF_SEO_DISPOSABLE_LINK_FARM heuristic indicates a link farm on disposable hosting, suggesting malicious intent. ClamAV detection as Pdf.Phishing.Trojan further supports this assessment. While no scripts were explicitly extracted, the structure and heuristics point towards a phishing or malware distribution campaign.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.7623

Heuristics 4

  • 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
  • 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://cicatsalud.com/html/sites/default/files/webform/jedirokadezat.pdf In PDF document text
    • https://www.pharoxglobal.com/sites/default/files/webform/garuwofewitenobakufenewi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.muttypawsacademy.com/sites/default/files/webform/vaccines/30199048500.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.ofalloncasting.com/sites/default/files/webform/wibojamivumararevede.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://natsihwa.org.au/sites/default/files/webform/46250275999.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.grotekeukens.be/sites/default/files/webform/gmawards2018/98751459569.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.jwico.com/sites/default/files/webform/66271497470.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.mothercare.ro/sites/default/files/webform/resumes/42535902170.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/GLLx1DTH0VQ/uplcv?utm_term=perfect+portions+meal+planPDF link annotation
    • https://lib.asu.edu/system/files/webform/56381184371.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://community.princeton.edu/system/files/webform/13590028771.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://lib.asu.edu/system/files/webform/46247033309.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://scripts.sil.org/OFLIn PDF document text

Extracted artifacts 1

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
font_00_sfnt_off0000f30c.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF30C 5164 bytes
SHA-256: 2477e4817abd65116fc76c77e75c6dbc84ea7a6b2c2bfac9b6ae7639dd8d476c