Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 ea358d2229c64394…

MALICIOUS

PDF

68.8 KB Created: 2021-04-24 07:23:37 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7) First seen: 2021-05-29
MD5: 73cd9099e8822d2dacc828952c9089e3 SHA-1: 706924f55eae29bdbc74588b87fd5defb6a600ed SHA-256: ea358d2229c64394611c48f166d8a8488b4ee1ca7bd3f7ed321f1015ec7f6699
126 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF contains numerous embedded URLs, many of which point to disposable domains and are structured as link farms, indicating a phishing or malware distribution attempt. The ML classifier and ClamAV detection strongly suggest malicious intent. Although no scripts were explicitly extracted, the PDF structure and embedded links are indicative of a malicious document designed to redirect users to potentially harmful content.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9998

Heuristics 5

  • ClamAV: Pdf.Phishing.Trojan-d2528dad23a95d95-d2528dad23a95d95-10044376-0 critical CLAMAV_DETECTION
    ClamAV detected this file as malware: Pdf.Phishing.Trojan-d2528dad23a95d95-d2528dad23a95d95-10044376-0
  • 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.ofalloncasting.com/sites/default/files/webform/tasuwagorefovufozibojer.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://pilgrimland.com/sites/default/files/webform/resume-uploads/jitebetususi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://aboss.by/sites/default/files/webform/12404161593.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.jts.org.jo/sites/default/files/webform/76938035167.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.mainephilanthropy.org/sites/default/files/30695142459.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.muttypawsacademy.com/sites/default/files/webform/vaccines/95859103094.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://seiary.com/sites/default/files/webform/rec/11252708720.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.osgeurope.com/sites/osg-corporate.dev/files/webform/memirudomonejusowanasu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://seiary.com/sites/default/files/webform/rec/kutovaduro.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.enwidth.com/sites/default/files/webform/resumes/ralivowu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ambrose.edu/sites/default/files/webform/durigoxilakomisi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://pilgrimland.com/sites/default/files/webform/resume-uploads/woluweweketasuzizolog.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://spotlight-sites.com/sites/default/files/webform/wokasonexigugeb.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.friendlycc.com/sites/default/files/webform/47778491084.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.mothercare.ro/sites/default/files/webform/resumes/49428740932.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://oaklandchildcare.org/sites/default/files/webform/26688185713.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.woonsocketri.org/system/temporary/webform/mupiroto.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/YTWXjIUwRh0/uplcv?utm_term=niveles+de+prevenci%25C3%25B3n+en+odontologiaPDF link annotation
    • 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_off0000cddc.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xCDDC 5408 bytes
SHA-256: 84020f7ee315e4f06a6d01f09c98ad986a20604c8cee5818870ebdd69e13ee7d
font_01_sfnt_off0000e01d.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xE01D 10980 bytes
SHA-256: 67b82d818cb8d4bbb0e5eda3d7d57de614a45373765f267ed1235d738f62806b