Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 deeedb5d64b8d97f…

MALICIOUS

PDF

71.4 KB Created: 2021-04-16 01:45:23 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7) First seen: 2021-05-26
MD5: f4081089688bc4356713c4a551d3c7a7 SHA-1: d20f6d1bd44c8f1e535fcc32b1552811a8dfbe14 SHA-256: deeedb5d64b8d97f74f26e7c8b48ef76a0af1e347511d866525e7591a8874de6
126 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF file was flagged by multiple heuristics, including a critical ClamAV detection for 'Pdf.Phishing.Trojan'. The document body, though heavily obfuscated, suggests a lure related to 'Solar system word search answers'. The presence of numerous external URIs, many pointing to disposable hosting or link farms, indicates a strong likelihood of phishing or malware distribution. No scripts were extracted, but the PDF structure and URI findings strongly suggest malicious intent.

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/basolidigululaba.pdf In PDF document text
    • https://www.dgs-interparts.be/sites/default/files/7838369457.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://pilgrimland.com/sites/default/files/webform/resume-uploads/tixatikuwasa.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.mothercare.ro/sites/default/files/webform/resumes/sojivezogi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://pilgrimland.com/sites/default/files/webform/resume-uploads/woluweweketasuzizolog.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.pbttphtk.gov.my/sites/default/files/webform/74795851198.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.jsif.org/sites/default/files/webform/94808830073.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.mothercare.ro/sites/default/files/webform/resumes/42535902170.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.woonsocketri.org/system/temporary/webform/makepepatamizozixijefawop.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://web.liderpapel.com/sites/default/files/webform/wavunivuzabanovomid.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://russian-ice-spb.ru/sites/default/files/webform/files/69309865186.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://klm3fg.grhosting.cz/sites/default/files/webform/files/78191676466.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.natsihwa.org.au/sites/default/files/webform/17423244846.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/BkSY9tpko7c/uplcv?utm_term=solar+system+word+search+answersPDF link annotation
    • https://umatter.princeton.edu/system/files/webform/requests/72435273025.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.vub.be/sites/vub/files/webform/fazarixi.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_off0000d964.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xD964 5476 bytes
SHA-256: d7f7d1bc21122a12d10ab08bd5ce673c04fb1b740cc5eba71fb7923ff5580838
font_01_sfnt_off0000ebed.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xEBED 10808 bytes
SHA-256: 414f27ed0abf8a209ccd834d2bd6855ed57f9f9c70c23bc55c1cdc48e8aa5223

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