Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 dda4ea860faa285f…

MALICIOUS

PDF

67.6 KB Created: 2021-04-17 20:31:42 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7) First seen: 2021-10-07
MD5: f4304378179b72dd31e2d3e42e6fb4e9 SHA-1: da18797bde9317cf56c345f44c69bfde50114706 SHA-256: dda4ea860faa285fbd57f1eb3c1fa72bffa551ffa368d5a1449864d017bd027b
126 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF document was flagged by ML classifiers and ClamAV as malicious, specifically as a phishing trojan. It contains numerous embedded URLs, many of which point to disposable domains or are part of a link farm, indicating a likely attempt to redirect users to malicious sites. While no scripts were explicitly extracted, the PDF structure and the presence of external links suggest it may exploit PDF vulnerabilities or employ social engineering to lead users to malicious content.

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.natsihwa.org.au/sites/default/files/webform/86947183128.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://klm3fg.grhosting.cz/sites/default/files/webform/files/56601188302.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.grotekeukens.be/sites/default/files/webform/gmawards2018/sumeli.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.friendlycc.com/sites/default/files/webform/tojatovovezugunubi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.ofalloncasting.com/sites/default/files/webform/nunemoxajusadokuxilebe.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.mainephilanthropy.org/sites/default/files/ziladiweropisikiforab.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.natsihwa.org.au/sites/default/files/webform/tuwagamutavuvefofufeniz.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.termis.org/system/files/webform/53478461308.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://europa-ts.ru/sites/default/files/webform/81905598419.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.termis.org/system/files/webform/98565071062.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://web.liderpapel.com/sites/default/files/webform/53484808665.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/GLLx1DTH0VQ/uplcv?utm_term=star+wars+novelsPDF link annotation
    • https://www.ice.cam.ac.uk/sites/www.ice.cam.ac.uk/files/webform/10713621665.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://drones.princeton.edu/system/files/webform/dovekilubexuvizufak.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://minorsoncampus.princeton.edu/system/files/webform/zotatati.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://lib.asu.edu/system/files/webform/dilitopuwivane.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_off0000cd59.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xCD59 4936 bytes
SHA-256: 09b2b81c96da32166212b960c1a2e7622c106ff4a5f32fdedb97b2da4be1dcc4
font_01_sfnt_off0000de41.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xDE41 10576 bytes
SHA-256: 5dda3c55a986e4017cdf88fd998389b6b39ac4a6b70e3f5cd87cd1bfb77de4c0