Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 de4a7dd80fff8672…

MALICIOUS

PDF

68.2 KB Created: 2021-04-25 23:53:58 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7) First seen: 2021-05-29
MD5: 98fce2318970fc00e1b1c04d4f21727f SHA-1: 6e71602d747422238bd6de6567e05f37e8d26749 SHA-256: de4a7dd80fff8672f27300adf7fab7af42f0444dc405d1c7912d309bf9545fd2
126 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF document contains embedded URLs and is flagged by ML classifiers and ClamAV as malicious, specifically as a phishing trojan. The document body, though heavily obfuscated, appears to be a lure related to a search query, directing users to potentially malicious external sites. The presence of multiple embedded URLs and the ML detection strongly suggest a phishing or credential harvesting attempt.

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.a1touchsolution.nl/sites/default/files/rowiduw.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://www.guninetwork.org/system/files/webform/heirri_proposals/74543186253.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.woonsocketri.org/system/temporary/webform/danajon.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.telluridescience.org/sites/default/files/tstc-applications/fezijorimofilafomifum.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.osgeurope.com/sites/osg-corporate.dev/files/webform/28911573484.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.grotekeukens.be/sites/default/files/webform/gmawards2018/98751459569.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://vectorcorp.net/sites/default/files/webform/resume/sowasipaxezok.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ambrose.edu/sites/default/files/webform/65047245793.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.enwidth.com/sites/default/files/webform/resumes/fudigebifofonixetizitalu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://pilgrimland.com/sites/default/files/webform/resume-uploads/52872338461.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.sumnercountyhospital.org/sites/default/files/webform/sinuwoxifazuroli.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/Uplcv/~3/YTWXjIUwRh0/uplcv?utm_term=john+deere+la135+deck+belt+sizePDF link annotation
    • https://campusrec.princeton.edu/system/files/webform/popikinof.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://campusrec.princeton.edu/system/files/webform/jelozubunumi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://printandmail.princeton.edu/system/files/webform/31356988355.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_off0000cc21.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xCC21 5608 bytes
SHA-256: bf2877516a82e1e1dfdf0870f0a8d6a8b344d803542b6375106c4449a113327f
font_01_sfnt_off0000df31.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xDF31 11088 bytes
SHA-256: 9de994cf00202a4b8613b1de326239ce2524870a0f0cdbc3b5d25a0cefe421bb