Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 ebd25054e0d2beb2…

MALICIOUS

PDF

68.1 KB Created: 2021-04-18 12:23:54 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7) First seen: 2021-05-29
MD5: 6f37bc1e7f5dc12a4b3c8bec02735401 SHA-1: 1954432e8fd67882254887194196a3fa6117b50a SHA-256: ebd25054e0d2beb2acae94e99d9fb0a796d5ddc2858dc326bdfa3b4bd16df973
134 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

This PDF document was flagged as malicious by ML classifiers and ClamAV, indicating a high likelihood of malicious intent. The presence of numerous external URIs, many pointing to disposable hosting and exhibiting link farm characteristics, suggests a phishing or malware distribution scheme. Although no scripts were explicitly extracted, the PDF structure and heuristic firings strongly suggest it's designed to trick users into downloading a payload.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9998

Heuristics 6

  • 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.
  • Visual download / call-to-action button lure low SE_DOWNLOAD_BUTTON
    Document contains a call-to-action phrase ('Click here to download', 'Download Now', etc.) — low-signal unless other findings point to a malicious workflow
  • 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://oaklandchildcare.org/sites/default/files/webform/80411930416.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://russian-ice-spb.ru/sites/default/files/webform/files/zatepatepekaberemosigedix.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://spotlight-sites.com/sites/default/files/webform/40861703051.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.mainephilanthropy.org/sites/default/files/50588642306.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://grossenbacher.co.nz/en/system/files/avoidance-training-certificates/tatemomolefifepa.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.natsihwa.org.au/sites/default/files/webform/25680057182.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.osgeurope.com/sites/osg-corporate.dev/files/webform/19824824677.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://oaklandchildcare.org/sites/default/files/webform/55178968397.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ambrose.edu/sites/default/files/webform/juremetepatofuf.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.guninetwork.org/system/files/webform/heirri_proposals/dagen.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.natsihwa.org.au/sites/default/files/webform/lavajaruzapelusudixavu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://klm3fg.grhosting.cz/sites/default/files/webform/files/nuzutigurazuleziwuta.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.guninetwork.org/system/files/webform/heirri_proposals/gafazibo.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/~3/6naE_Nh8_CY/uplcv?utm_term=convert+mp3+to+midi+online+freePDF link annotation
    • https://gradfutures.princeton.edu/system/files/webform/49692556615.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ec.europa.eu/eip/agriculture/sites/default/files/webform/66140853426.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://printandmail.princeton.edu/system/files/webform/54002061309.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://lib.asu.edu/system/files/webform/nexeginexepor.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_off0000d003.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xD003 4928 bytes
SHA-256: c74bf15f3ab737104d27d2f29a7724d3c340bffaed7125900cadac6827e79eb2
font_01_sfnt_off0000e0bd.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xE0BD 10212 bytes
SHA-256: aa85fe87257a371d674f8068bbe243ab3cbbf6941498d12361f8ce06874dff7a

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