Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 eb2eb45c3c8337dc…

MALICIOUS

PDF

66.6 KB Created: 2021-04-09 17:22:36 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7) First seen: 2021-05-29
MD5: 2237abfc1aa71633efc15ccf2b63de01 SHA-1: b5697762748f43adff197d685da7c327211cf71f SHA-256: eb2eb45c3c8337dc39b93d1f3443d0b3dec7228bdad1c9037701ba8326a95188
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 document body, though heavily obfuscated, contains text suggesting a lure for video downloads. The presence of numerous external URIs, many pointing to potentially disposable domains, further supports a phishing or malware distribution scheme. No scripts were extracted, but the PDF structure and embedded URIs are indicative of a phishing attack.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9996

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 http://www.friendlycc.com/sites/default/files/webform/47778491084.pdf In PDF document text
    • https://www.enwidth.com/sites/default/files/webform/resumes/48862039041.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://klm3fg.grhosting.cz/sites/default/files/webform/files/16831560309.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.natsihwa.org.au/sites/default/files/webform/bukitonixoravutewoluba.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.mothercare.ro/sites/default/files/webform/resumes/tawapiseligimagawawujimo.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/~3/1KS0DP0cxss/uplcv?utm_term=su+ve+ate%25C5%259F+izle+full+hd+tek+par%25C3%25A7a+indirPDF link annotation
    • https://minorsoncampus.princeton.edu/system/files/webform/libovonudipiguriteg.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://thesanfordschool.asu.edu/sites/default/files/webform/83703622856.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.healthdata.org/sites/default/files/resumes/sutuzosugogaw.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://umatter.princeton.edu/system/files/webform/requests/roporopapoviz.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://minorsoncampus.princeton.edu/system/files/webform/zotatati.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_off0000c47c.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xC47C 5660 bytes
SHA-256: 389a71349627b083b77a1608fbf46a71c4669954feedbd7b152a261e1b956672
font_01_sfnt_off0000d79c.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xD79C 11532 bytes
SHA-256: f8eff16487c61eaa7b0a47160eb8c4128a8f7eab7af9d00d117b6217fbbe569b