Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 dae076b5b3ed3a20…

MALICIOUS

PDF

69.9 KB Created: 2021-04-23 12:48:10 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7) First seen: 2021-05-29
MD5: 37c45525a993176b5a24c538e5ccf80e SHA-1: dd7889302d925c0b2a0051429b2b52b6161fb8d3 SHA-256: dae076b5b3ed3a201bda44a8ec3b84935b1c9163244d32640302a68fc0ac3520
126 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

This PDF document was flagged by ML classifiers and ClamAV as malicious, indicating a phishing or trojan threat. It contains numerous embedded URLs, many of which are structured as link farms, suggesting an attempt to obscure malicious destinations. The document body, though heavily obfuscated, appears to be a lure related to 'Roku availability in the UK'. No scripts were extracted, but the presence of multiple external URIs and the overall structure point towards a phishing or redirection attack.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9997

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 https://www.mainephilanthropy.org/sites/default/files/ziladiweropisikiforab.pdf In PDF document text
    • https://www.dgs-interparts.be/sites/default/files/57515461030.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://cicatsalud.com/html/sites/default/files/webform/dizage.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.cdcplumbing.com/sites/default/files/webform/contact-us/65589142167.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ambrose.edu/sites/default/files/webform/zabufenopi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://vectorcorp.net/sites/default/files/webform/resume/sowasipaxezok.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.pharoxglobal.com/sites/default/files/webform/50635107556.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://grossenbacher.co.nz/en/system/files/avoidance-training-certificates/34782296767.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.sumnercountyhospital.org/sites/default/files/webform/vetasitumuwogemukuruv.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.mainephilanthropy.org/sites/default/files/50588642306.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/1eyvgo/aqOO/~3/6naE_Nh8_CY/uplcv?utm_term=is+roku+available+in+the+ukPDF link annotation
    • https://campusrec.princeton.edu/system/files/webform/xapedejezorim.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.healthdata.org/sites/default/files/resumes/mavesoriv.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_off0000d57f.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xD57F 4976 bytes
SHA-256: 3530197bc23a12630f9e5a0ed51e5328491ad91534e5b42da5dcb96ee454cb46
font_01_sfnt_off0000e66a.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xE66A 10680 bytes
SHA-256: c767ff676ca1e3361ff2c675168973a403e71e31bcfce72655e4193c78b76e63

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