Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 d89a29ff2aa7e049…

MALICIOUS

PDF

65.3 KB Created: 2021-04-24 05:31:38 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7) First seen: 2021-05-23
MD5: b080e00c7ad328dc8c0828e8f6ea02af SHA-1: 1d707b43371682a179bfe2906d5f3f53b0ebe652 SHA-256: d89a29ff2aa7e04952f931a10498fb848963e1069dfc3680d10d4f0341a0e355
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 malware distribution attempt. The heuristic 'PDF_SEO_DISPOSABLE_LINK_FARM' suggests the document is designed to host numerous links on disposable domains, likely to redirect users to malicious sites. While no scripts were explicitly extracted, the PDF structure and embedded URLs point towards an attempt to exploit users through deceptive links.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9998

Heuristics 5

  • ClamAV: Pdf.Phishing.Trojan-d2528dad23a95d95-d2528dad23a95d95-10044376-0 critical CLAMAV_DETECTION
    ClamAV detected this file as malware: Pdf.Phishing.Trojan-d2528dad23a95d95-d2528dad23a95d95-10044376-0
  • 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 https://grossenbacher.co.nz/en/system/files/avoidance-training-certificates/basolidigululaba.pdf In PDF document text
    • https://ambrose.edu/sites/default/files/webform/61391242106.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.newburghgroup.com/sites/default/files/webform/resumes/woxofenobe.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.woonsocketri.org/system/temporary/webform/51053607868.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.natsihwa.org.au/sites/default/files/webform/lavajaruzapelusudixavu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://oaklandchildcare.org/sites/default/files/webform/zomosazufexebale.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://spotlight-sites.com/sites/default/files/webform/4279473489.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.natsihwa.org.au/sites/default/files/webform/21073527915.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://natsihwa.org.au/sites/default/files/webform/kixeje.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://vectorcorp.net/sites/default/files/webform/resume/tefofavokalozigukar.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/~3/1KS0DP0cxss/uplcv?utm_term=heat+n+glo+fireplace+remote+controlPDF link annotation
    • https://minorsoncampus.princeton.edu/system/files/webform/wetesagepe.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_off0000c438.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xC438 5120 bytes
SHA-256: d048b24d21ee5c37da1598ef90afbd4e84fa0b03dd696c51c7b2a8896169afdc
font_01_sfnt_off0000d599.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xD599 10288 bytes
SHA-256: dfef2e814f355605d8174ba0de03a00a6e7a05a2fb02a66a3ba699d99972b83f

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