Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 e2dbd97f81df7089…

MALICIOUS

PDF

67.6 KB Created: 2021-04-22 16:09:35 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7) First seen: 2021-05-29
MD5: 05d3f54756c4631358a3b16e402a7516 SHA-1: 040f3ad537f7218dedd6f22cf4f49d8289713266 SHA-256: e2dbd97f81df7089fdff5d9fdd7935d2a662ef01e1e4080b85fac2f1429fd078
126 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The file was detected as malicious by ClamAV and an ML classifier, indicating a high likelihood of malicious intent. The PDF contains numerous embedded URLs, many of which are part of link farms, suggesting an attempt to redirect users to malicious sites. While no scripts were explicitly extracted, the PDF structure and the presence of external URIs strongly suggest it's designed to exploit vulnerabilities or trick users into downloading further malicious content, aligning with phishing and malware distribution tactics.

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.visitsavannah.com/sites/default/files/webform/59391310887.pdf In PDF document text
    • https://www.newburghgroup.com/sites/default/files/webform/resumes/41319995155.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://architecturaldesigninc.com/sites/default/files/56675633315.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.pacificsportfraservalley.com/sites/default/files/webform/pulipalukegibivep.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.jwico.com/sites/default/files/webform/66271497470.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.osgeurope.com/sites/osg-corporate.dev/files/webform/27880179426.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.osgeurope.com/sites/osg-corporate.dev/files/webform/tajiwugebewozebukak.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.enwidth.com/sites/default/files/webform/resumes/ralivowu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://spotlight-sites.com/sites/default/files/webform/jalipoxelelikepobolid.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.telluridescience.org/sites/default/files/tstc-applications/30232074114.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://aboss.by/sites/default/files/webform/10891008032.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.sumnercountyhospital.org/sites/default/files/webform/27017481005.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/skout/mBVl/~3/cv9VXjIrmdE/uplcv?utm_term=behavior+management+plan+samplePDF link annotation
    • https://thesanfordschool.asu.edu/sites/default/files/webform/43157208480.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_off0000cd56.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xCD56 5340 bytes
SHA-256: c16e511a58c8ab543ae625bd3bac4fe5ef251d81616b4104b452308401465444
font_01_sfnt_off0000df61.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xDF61 10224 bytes
SHA-256: 93348644c8427a5dde6ffe767d47e9a9a4b6bed6594163a222839303686b09b8