Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 e0e1f80e3cf4ddfd…

MALICIOUS

PDF

72.3 KB Created: 2021-04-22 09:35:07 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7) First seen: 2021-06-04
MD5: d9dd62a64906f9c3cb2dbe94f363dc6b SHA-1: f0763bf10a71fa8b1195a5ac72f834486523e603 SHA-256: e0e1f80e3cf4ddfdc91239e7cb71b9dbd85e1f63b7911734a7b4d3fbfacf868f
126 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF file was flagged by ML classifiers and ClamAV as malicious, indicating a phishing or trojan distribution attempt. The embedded URLs and the PDF structure suggest a link farm designed to redirect users to potentially malicious content, possibly disguised as printer driver downloads. No scripts were extracted, but the PDF's nature points towards social engineering to trick users into downloading further payloads.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9997

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 http://www.muttypawsacademy.com/sites/default/files/webform/vaccines/40041164747.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://klm3fg.grhosting.cz/sites/default/files/webform/files/30253637425.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.viachristi.org/sites/default/files/webform/89070061484.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.guninetwork.org/system/files/webform/heirri_proposals/38059385999.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.sumnercountyhospital.org/sites/default/files/webform/27017481005.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.enwidth.com/sites/default/files/webform/resumes/ralivowu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.a1touchsolution.nl/sites/default/files/51131620028.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://klm3fg.grhosting.cz/sites/default/files/webform/files/16831560309.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.pbttphtk.gov.my/sites/default/files/webform/nolukaronedibikix.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://klm3fg.grhosting.cz/sites/default/files/webform/files/22206840813.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://russian-ice-spb.ru/sites/default/files/webform/files/69309865186.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.telluridescience.org/sites/default/files/tstc-applications/90077644064.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.visitsavannah.com/sites/default/files/webform/mubojezelu.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/LPIa9PGmDLg/uplcv?utm_term=hp+officejet+pro+6830+all+in+one+inkjet+printer+driver+downloadPDF link annotation
    • https://lib.asu.edu/system/files/webform/rutepirunumobapof.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_off0000dd01.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xDD01 5876 bytes
SHA-256: a6d798893eb46d96b04fec191484ee6b88a0344d068d20bd166d57648974902c
font_01_sfnt_off0000f123.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF123 10164 bytes
SHA-256: fab456fa117c5096605e2721f64165938e4b796cb8d5a130b8cce3f80213545d

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