Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 eae0794b62d0ac04…

MALICIOUS

PDF

82.5 KB Created: 2021-04-06 19:47:26 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7) First seen: 2021-05-29
MD5: 44e817e40c350842a136bbaff0f3d3db SHA-1: 5124693565dcdf40935c887d5ac150ac05b926f9 SHA-256: eae0794b62d0ac04b9a652954e3a6a0baa32b83dda844f65b536b9385dee8897
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, specifically as a phishing trojan. The document body, though heavily obfuscated, contains text related to a musical rhythm book, likely a lure. The presence of numerous external URLs, many pointing to seemingly unrelated domains but structured as PDF files, suggests a link farm or redirection mechanism for phishing. No scripts were extracted, but the PDF structure and URL patterns are indicative of a phishing campaign.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9996

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.dgs-interparts.be/sites/default/files/68462010443.pdf In PDF document text
    • https://www.a1touchsolution.nl/sites/default/files/26511902049.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://cicatsalud.com/html/sites/default/files/webform/65000750087.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.osgeurope.com/sites/osg-corporate.dev/files/webform/bedadijone.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://architecturaldesigninc.com/sites/default/files/bujepalifomi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ambrose.edu/sites/default/files/webform/59680287402.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://architecturaldesigninc.com/sites/default/files/sujuxot.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.mothercare.ro/sites/default/files/webform/resumes/topijetidilotifoga.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.osgeurope.com/sites/osg-corporate.dev/files/webform/28911573484.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://klm3fg.grhosting.cz/sites/default/files/webform/files/mimixinaxeralowevowijut.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.ofalloncasting.com/sites/default/files/webform/nunemoxajusadokuxilebe.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://aboss.by/sites/default/files/webform/76513539396.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/In PDF document text
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/typedesigners.htmlIn PDF document text
    • http://www.daltonmaag.com/In PDF document text
    • http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Uplcv/~3/3vuEKuznOb8/uplcv?utm_term=lenguaje+musical+ritmico+1+ediciones+si+bemol+pdfPDF link annotation
    • https://thesanfordschool.asu.edu/sites/default/files/webform/99818817157.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://drones.princeton.edu/system/files/webform/66931006591.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
    • http://dejavu.sourceforge.netIn PDF document text
    • http://dejavu.sourceforge.net/wiki/index.php/LicenseIn PDF document text

Extracted artifacts 4

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
font_00_sfnt_off0000dcd0.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xDCD0 5568 bytes
SHA-256: e4004bda6f5b09ef933735b90b99c0fa53dbd80bf7d59758878a550e338f86ff
font_01_sfnt_off0000efb2.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xEFB2 12376 bytes
SHA-256: 6700e32fa839a7d53fc40305de081a1521eb6ee5bbae5cfff07288c72cce7771
font_02_sfnt_off000117fe.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x117FE 16060 bytes
SHA-256: 2173a1880e9f774f759393e7d0d28dda91d04d8a3eae6bea41b822770b343b90
font_03_sfnt_off00012c95.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x12C95 4324 bytes
SHA-256: d1f4a20f0e35a0564be54678b929bb8c711862c507f070c2b9a6abea8daf4378