Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 d7eeca9db68c517f…

MALICIOUS

PDF

64.6 KB Created: 2021-04-06 21:21:20 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7) First seen: 2021-05-23
MD5: 5f7083312a698164461253fd973bfa92 SHA-1: 5082c522ce3b6a6f3ac60fe08ef89d2a14e88ea2 SHA-256: d7eeca9db68c517f9284095b575f98772d77b5ea2495a7c60070f4c002e71634
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 phishing or trojan threat. The presence of multiple embedded URLs, including one hosted on disposable infrastructure, suggests an attempt to redirect users to malicious sites. Although no scripts were explicitly extracted, the PDF structure and heuristic firings point towards a common pattern of using documents to distribute malware or facilitate phishing attacks.

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://klm3fg.grhosting.cz/sites/default/files/webform/files/40110328039.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://portal-mysigma.com/system/files/student-proof/62332338419.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.enwidth.com/sites/default/files/webform/resumes/wefegazeketalewawer.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://oaklandchildcare.org/sites/default/files/webform/dakorudi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://oaklandchildcare.org/sites/default/files/webform/zomosazufexebale.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.guninetwork.org/system/files/webform/heirri_proposals/38059385999.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/In PDF document text
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/typedesigners.htmlIn PDF document text
    • http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Uplcv/~3/3vuEKuznOb8/uplcv?utm_term=cambridge+latin+course+book+3+pdf+downloadPDF link annotation
    • https://printandmail.princeton.edu/system/files/webform/67925993666.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ec.europa.eu/eip/agriculture/sites/default/files/webform/44438097533.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://drones.princeton.edu/system/files/webform/94207829768.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://lib.asu.edu/system/files/webform/sikukuditizituxabisezopel.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_off0000bebc.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xBEBC 5840 bytes
SHA-256: b2b284e8d0caa623cf77c832458e109ffc26201e76e2592b5b92baffa05f3381
font_01_sfnt_off0000d294.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xD294 10596 bytes
SHA-256: fe9751897f591a03a51edf2a6ec2b29990bdf6241dae39056fa8ced07b5869b9