Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 ebcc1af322590358…

MALICIOUS

PDF

66.6 KB Created: 2021-04-17 13:03:10 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7) First seen: 2021-05-29
MD5: 394f201b41a2a87baf568090a13f7d99 SHA-1: 526a0dbecd6cf56c70bf5597f3dbbb18324d95f9 SHA-256: ebcc1af3225903587ae8134caf94b369ee98eee957a60174b75164e338238b78
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. It contains numerous embedded URLs, many of which point to disposable domains or are structured as link farms, suggesting an attempt to redirect users to malicious sites. The document body, though heavily obfuscated, contains text that appears to be a lure ('The black cat questions answer key'). No scripts were extracted, but the overall structure and heuristic firings indicate a phishing or malware distribution attempt.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9983

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.grotekeukens.be/sites/default/files/webform/gmawards2018/sumeli.pdf In PDF document text
    • https://www.blplegal.com/sites/default/files/webform/32112495638.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ambrose.edu/sites/default/files/webform/padubomi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.natsihwa.org.au/sites/default/files/webform/xexazud.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.enwidth.com/sites/default/files/webform/resumes/noranixuguwetepefosobad.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.pacificsportfraservalley.com/sites/default/files/webform/90877516301.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.mothercare.ro/sites/default/files/webform/resumes/77861868930.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.uts.cw/sites/default/files/webform/pugixenarewowu.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/Uplcv/~3/LPIa9PGmDLg/uplcv?utm_term=the+black+cat+questions+answer+keyPDF link annotation
    • https://campusrec.princeton.edu/system/files/webform/jelozubunumi.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_off0000c896.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xC896 5360 bytes
SHA-256: f9df6bfe75e7a280dc3cfd12369e09187a795489bf9054974ecf5add391f66a8
font_01_sfnt_off0000dae8.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xDAE8 10252 bytes
SHA-256: ed012bad3970322f0c5a50b9628df89dcf1bf0a9300abf9e52a4beffd6a8e84b

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