Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 ddd2508bdcac64b0…

MALICIOUS

PDF

106.6 KB Created: 2021-04-21 02:36:44 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7) First seen: 2021-05-29
MD5: 07c3b7a29bc226738c2043a3741661a0 SHA-1: df912a7adcc6a5e118ccbb4e46d5bda995751dc2 SHA-256: ddd2508bdcac64b05168bc15d20697343ae3e647ae6f54aa3e7e1f5105df9b7e
126 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF document was flagged by ClamAV as Pdf.Phishing.Trojan and by an ML classifier as malicious. It contains numerous embedded URLs, many of which point to potentially compromised websites or link farms, indicating a phishing or malware distribution attempt. The heuristic PDF_SEO_DISPOSABLE_LINK_FARM further supports this, identifying the PDF as a link farm on disposable hosting.

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://grossenbacher.co.nz/en/system/files/avoidance-training-certificates/3242210986.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://www.pbttphtk.gov.my/sites/default/files/webform/xaduxiwipel.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://cicatsalud.com/html/sites/default/files/webform/17654710786.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ambrose.edu/sites/default/files/webform/9027254294.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.ofalloncasting.com/sites/default/files/webform/wibojamivumararevede.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://cicatsalud.com/html/sites/default/files/webform/59286961246.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://grossenbacher.co.nz/en/system/files/avoidance-training-certificates/13471650610.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.friendlycc.com/sites/default/files/webform/16921441106.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.osgeurope.com/sites/osg-corporate.dev/files/webform/10654010608.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ambrose.edu/sites/default/files/webform/11118021720.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.pbttphtk.gov.my/sites/default/files/webform/kafavepovimurajubek.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.uts.cw/sites/default/files/webform/nufideleze.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://grossenbacher.co.nz/en/system/files/avoidance-training-certificates/tojawi.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/YTWXjIUwRh0/uplcv?utm_term=the+chrysalids+movie+2018PDF link annotation
    • https://community.princeton.edu/system/files/webform/13590028771.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://minorsoncampus.princeton.edu/system/files/webform/libovonudipiguriteg.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://drones.princeton.edu/system/files/webform/dovekilubexuvizufak.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_off00016328.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x16328 5812 bytes
SHA-256: def6e72f41777836abf8aa79c5aaf52c1438958baa5b922caba9523b1106531f
font_01_sfnt_off000176d2.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x176D2 11048 bytes
SHA-256: 07ee088fb72171cfb537f2d70e84f2c08cd90e4cb75a35a90620aca5fbcce1e7