Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 debd9072ebe015b7…

MALICIOUS

PDF

69.7 KB Created: 2021-04-24 07:57:23 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7) First seen: 2021-06-30
MD5: 1ba89ce48bfc6b9b9914f1646d8096bf SHA-1: 97c6dbc9d8c160a236d3250f59bd658baaebf2b4 SHA-256: debd9072ebe015b77e2f58578d438c5f8a37cafae4d4f69d887551239b772e41
126 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF file was flagged by ClamAV as Pdf.Phishing.Trojan and an ML classifier indicated a high probability of maliciousness. The document body, though heavily obfuscated, contains references to a Logitech product, suggesting a lure to disguise malicious links. The presence of numerous external URIs, many hosted on seemingly legitimate domains but with suspicious paths, further supports a phishing or redirection attempt.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9995

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.jsif.org/sites/default/files/webform/meratasadif.pdf In PDF document text
    • https://www.cdcplumbing.com/sites/default/files/webform/contact-us/65589142167.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://spotlight-sites.com/sites/default/files/webform/jalipoxelelikepobolid.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ambrose.edu/sites/default/files/webform/58588935603.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.friendlycc.com/sites/default/files/webform/topevonizudurazot.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.dgs-interparts.be/sites/default/files/jinez.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://portal-mysigma.com/system/files/student-proof/woximinel.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ambrose.edu/sites/default/files/webform/futexapepunuvanujom.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=logitech+x+530+subwoofer+not+workingPDF link annotation
    • https://printandmail.princeton.edu/system/files/webform/42849177422.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://gradfutures.princeton.edu/system/files/webform/buviboxakutovovujigobimis.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_off0000d07a.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xD07A 5636 bytes
SHA-256: 710927cc897183129db48397e36eb97b3e1b0185e13cb05cb576857327dac440
font_01_sfnt_off0000e3d5.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xE3D5 11376 bytes
SHA-256: c131d55faf5ba5e5998fca4c0539d26dae274bf1f1f939ce6a843db6e19413ba