Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 dae2a7f22baa85c8…

MALICIOUS

PDF

77.6 KB Created: 2021-04-09 14:21:08 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7) First seen: 2021-05-29
MD5: 9bf24df485a9eae0bc18e106ede2d786 SHA-1: 39d995f733f07290ed65f102896250a3844f41ff SHA-256: dae2a7f22baa85c858a4cdd82090d8b723d7d77276192d626cbc6b23b5012863
126 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF contains numerous embedded links, many pointing to disposable domains, and is flagged as a link farm. The ML classifier and ClamAV detection strongly indicate malicious intent, likely phishing or malware distribution. While no scripts were explicitly extracted, the PDF structure and embedded URIs suggest it's designed to redirect users to malicious sites.

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 https://www.ofalloncasting.com/sites/default/files/webform/tasuwagorefovufozibojer.pdf In PDF document text
    • https://www.telluridescience.org/sites/default/files/tstc-applications/nuwirofu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.jsif.org/sites/default/files/webform/moridiwivomepagaduso.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.uts.cw/sites/default/files/webform/nufideleze.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://pilgrimland.com/sites/default/files/webform/resume-uploads/mikax.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.natsihwa.org.au/sites/default/files/webform/72789215659.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://web.liderpapel.com/sites/default/files/webform/53484808665.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.ofalloncasting.com/sites/default/files/webform/tirudekamevajoluzagobumi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://aboss.by/sites/default/files/webform/zivexovoburowunaxomenip.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.newburghgroup.com/sites/default/files/webform/resumes/falaburisidibiwad.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.osgeurope.com/sites/osg-corporate.dev/files/webform/vonasajevevedatenalezeb.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://cicatsalud.com/html/sites/default/files/webform/604022749.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://extranet.blanchisserie-toulousaine-de-sante.com/sites/extranet.blanchisserie-toulousaine-de-sante.com/files/documents/justificatifs/bugoxugokerudanetisene.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://spotlight-sites.com/sites/default/files/webform/93789740410.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://extranet.blanchisserie-toulousaine-de-sante.com/sites/extranet.blanchisserie-toulousaine-de-sante.com/files/documents/justificatifs/vinoku.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/In PDF document text
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/typedesigners.htmlIn PDF document text
    • http://www.daltonmaag.com/In PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/1eyvgo/aqOO/~3/DOqCt-cVA4I/uplcv?utm_term=neverwinter+nights+2+resolution+fixPDF link annotation
    • https://www.healthdata.org/sites/default/files/resumes/mevupuxapiledowitire.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://campusrec.princeton.edu/system/files/webform/febapaxugodikuzakepob.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 3

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
font_00_sfnt_off0000e47d.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xE47D 5020 bytes
SHA-256: 73af55f46824a5de02f4b9b102fa967c777a271ff5666bc401b3be3e781040d7
font_01_sfnt_off0000f5ba.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF5BA 11404 bytes
SHA-256: 963aa76011f8609060fc61fad484ad77060d659da2bb05b52487ebf9a74f9f92
font_02_sfnt_off00011b0a.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x11B0A 4324 bytes
SHA-256: a542ec26cea93e049a2e27cd59b1347dd9bbdea13775fd7b822b3c2b3136116f