Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 d8203d39007e7374…

MALICIOUS

PDF

95.3 KB Created: 2021-04-15 12:27:24 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7) First seen: 2021-10-12
MD5: 652479618f4a7b246c951caa6e1b6771 SHA-1: cf7c953b9f5208e3da01d3f4e3d89834bfeab18c SHA-256: d8203d39007e7374eec2afa062952b77db033c4a3641f1ebaf13d38780e948d9
126 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF file was flagged by multiple heuristics, including a critical ClamAV detection and an ML classifier, indicating malicious intent. The PDF_SEO_DISPOSABLE_LINK_FARM heuristic suggests it functions as a link farm, directing users to numerous distinct hosts. While no scripts were extracted, the presence of embedded URLs and the overall structure point towards a phishing or malware distribution scheme.

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.birdlifebotswana.org.bw/sites/default/files/webform/sightings-sketches/43600748611.pdf In PDF document text
    • https://www.uts.cw/sites/default/files/webform/47116150145.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.mothercare.ro/sites/default/files/webform/resumes/jilagofuzepev.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.blplegal.com/sites/default/files/webform/89971565628.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://oaklandchildcare.org/sites/default/files/webform/subeditanutojodojewogize.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://extranet.blanchisserie-toulousaine-de-sante.com/sites/extranet.blanchisserie-toulousaine-de-sante.com/files/documents/justificatifs/vawutudujenopudup.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.ofalloncasting.com/sites/default/files/webform/nunemoxajusadokuxilebe.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.pbttphtk.gov.my/sites/default/files/webform/88462653206.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://klm3fg.grhosting.cz/sites/default/files/webform/files/zavemazawutojene.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://cicatsalud.com/html/sites/default/files/webform/bulurifabisiwotubavigivos.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://architecturaldesigninc.com/sites/default/files/72694480293.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/Uplcv/~3/1xuhb7AK25c/uplcv?utm_term=what+time+of+the+year+does+a+doll%2527s+house+take+placePDF link annotation
    • https://community.princeton.edu/system/files/webform/boranewibutafale.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://thesanfordschool.asu.edu/sites/default/files/webform/31460711967.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://campusrec.princeton.edu/system/files/webform/26909318775.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://drones.princeton.edu/system/files/webform/94207829768.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://campusrec.princeton.edu/system/files/webform/luzatebinibaxopititum.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_off00013455.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x13455 5608 bytes
SHA-256: 2f26f263aba997ef053d785d53a0b39d4035fd97ed85f0b5dfa85a1a18308617
font_01_sfnt_off0001475f.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x1475F 12028 bytes
SHA-256: fcd5e23f70d80c4c0654471a97361d643d52255935686b5320d335c95a9293ee

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