Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 ddae833fd530377c…

MALICIOUS

PDF

107.4 KB Created: 2021-04-20 02:11:41 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7) First seen: 2021-05-29
MD5: 5c3b2fcc95c6bb05a49910bd2e5ed32b SHA-1: 46c8c21b301289dee3c20fc2c23705cf1cc91f03 SHA-256: ddae833fd530377c2f9d9674861fe08563f5807e85444e197649d2aa5fa81cdb
126 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF contains numerous embedded URLs, many pointing to potentially compromised or malicious domains, indicative of a link farm or phishing lure. The ClamAV detection and ML classifier strongly suggest malicious intent. While no scripts were explicitly extracted, the PDF structure and embedded URIs are consistent with techniques used to redirect users to malicious sites, potentially for further exploitation or credential harvesting.

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.dgs-interparts.be/sites/default/files/36138637258.pdf In PDF document text
    • https://www.a1touchsolution.nl/sites/default/files/togivem.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.mothercare.ro/sites/default/files/webform/resumes/susumijifiwef.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/kokibilelage.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://cicatsalud.com/html/sites/default/files/webform/dekif.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.muttypawsacademy.com/sites/default/files/webform/vaccines/72246142748.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.osgeurope.com/sites/osg-corporate.dev/files/webform/tafunowusovuna.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ambrose.edu/sites/default/files/webform/85138354947.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.afscme65.org/system/files/webform/96479551545.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/BkSY9tpko7c/uplcv?utm_term=william+blake+poem+death+strandingPDF link annotation
    • https://community.princeton.edu/system/files/webform/jidubiziro.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://thesanfordschool.asu.edu/sites/default/files/webform/43157208480.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_off0001685d.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x1685D 5588 bytes
SHA-256: b075c7fcc688ace32eda8648b2ebfb4a607850b24ff26b877a9881215788e5db
font_01_sfnt_off00017b36.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x17B36 11308 bytes
SHA-256: 27ec13bc6134926c5952b2f303adf488d64c682a163b35a10dff408a76a4d4b3

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