Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 ea3c06159e835f49…

MALICIOUS

PDF

69.0 KB Created: 2021-04-07 13:53:31 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7) First seen: 2021-06-28
MD5: 36158e15c0174dd6a0f6caace4290510 SHA-1: ef3946083b1da7cdc39231471ce132f960565d6a SHA-256: ea3c06159e835f4955c1bdbd05121c45a3d93c9a3d3a4d477042642402f01d86
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 high likelihood of malicious intent. The presence of numerous external URIs, many pointing to disposable domains or link farms, suggests an attempt to obscure the true destination or distribute further payloads. While no scripts were explicitly extracted, the PDF structure and heuristic firings point towards a phishing or malware distribution scheme.

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://web.liderpapel.com/sites/default/files/webform/53484808665.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ambrose.edu/sites/default/files/webform/26147793628.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.dgs-interparts.be/sites/default/files/viwiredozilopuvotudulufez.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.visitsavannah.com/sites/default/files/webform/fukixuliwidopisoduzurapi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.jsif.org/sites/default/files/webform/54003515034.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://klm3fg.grhosting.cz/sites/default/files/webform/files/wajuso.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.friendlycc.com/sites/default/files/webform/85881129832.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.grotekeukens.be/sites/default/files/webform/gmawards2018/sumeli.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://extranet.blanchisserie-toulousaine-de-sante.com/sites/extranet.blanchisserie-toulousaine-de-sante.com/files/documents/justificatifs/ziseriwutekezarog.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.telluridescience.org/sites/default/files/tstc-applications/fezijorimofilafomifum.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.mainephilanthropy.org/sites/default/files/wimatetomowitiki.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ambrose.edu/sites/default/files/webform/71048230710.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.pacificsportfraservalley.com/sites/default/files/webform/joxelivoresilawefuxeli.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/In PDF document text
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/typedesigners.htmlIn PDF document text
    • http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Uplcv/~3/LPIa9PGmDLg/uplcv?utm_term=powerscore+lsat+logic+games+bible+pdfPDF link annotation
    • https://ec.europa.eu/eip/agriculture/sites/default/files/webform/9071701793.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_off0000d072.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xD072 5708 bytes
SHA-256: f60d169bd7cd603e5c16154906febfea178378e772d21b2d0555e423b3750733
font_01_sfnt_off0000e3d9.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xE3D9 10328 bytes
SHA-256: 2e6f0f8f0270724c866f44e6a71a76f00197123cbfdc0d6412939736b7e30d1c

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