Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 e3e4c12ae3a29e0b…

MALICIOUS

PDF

81.7 KB Created: 2021-04-16 02:24:46 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7) First seen: 2021-05-29
MD5: a1f4f418be731e4c45d8ef41f8571ddb SHA-1: 780097eaba1a1cbfe0b17794fe71208ad876ebaa SHA-256: e3e4c12ae3a29e0b1ab13555af96435055fe109315cba87a988d7f7ee1f1a7ef
134 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment T1203 Exploitation for Client Execution

The PDF file contains multiple embedded URLs, one of which is hosted on a domain associated with link farming and disposable hosting, suggesting a phishing or malware distribution attempt. The ClamAV detection and ML classifier strongly indicate malicious intent. The document body, though heavily obfuscated, contains text related to 'download', reinforcing the lure.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9997

Heuristics 6

  • 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.
  • Visual download / call-to-action button lure low SE_DOWNLOAD_BUTTON
    Document contains a call-to-action phrase ('Click here to download', 'Download Now', etc.) — low-signal unless other findings point to a malicious workflow
  • 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/ranet.pdf In PDF document text
    • https://www.osgeurope.com/sites/osg-corporate.dev/files/webform/zizepuniket.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.enwidth.com/sites/default/files/webform/resumes/paxifufal.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://pilgrimland.com/sites/default/files/webform/resume-uploads/jitebetususi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.jsif.org/sites/default/files/webform/moridiwivomepagaduso.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.dgs-interparts.be/sites/default/files/7838369457.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.guninetwork.org/system/files/webform/heirri_proposals/80098342864.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://oaklandchildcare.org/sites/default/files/webform/veser.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/S30rS-6n6vg/uplcv?utm_term=focusrite+control+2.3.4+downloadPDF link annotation
    • https://ec.europa.eu/eip/agriculture/sites/default/files/webform/vifixofixif.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://campusrec.princeton.edu/system/files/webform/jelozubunumi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.healthdata.org/sites/default/files/resumes/68382108709.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://campusrec.princeton.edu/system/files/webform/4552140304.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_off0000fff1.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xFFF1 5396 bytes
SHA-256: 9243a629e990c5e624fd22751103075e99a2da829821567ba7bd0cf4dd4f525e
font_01_sfnt_off00011274.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x11274 11552 bytes
SHA-256: e142d74a275cd8bd55e9f8b373230854778e926d111dd560fd009b6329297b17

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