Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 ec904c7b5c94c2b4…

MALICIOUS

PDF

76.3 KB Created: 2021-04-08 14:03:42 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7)
MD5: 4ba8ac3c16de871e15597943860bbd8a SHA-1: a32326cc6a1c3e73d6f1dee0d8e283ed4a497b57 SHA-256: ec904c7b5c94c2b43e233d0ccbe23f81407231d1d9d237af60abf3aac1e49dcd
126 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment T1204.002 Malicious File

The PDF was flagged by multiple heuristics, including a high-confidence ML classifier and ClamAV detection, indicating malicious intent. The presence of numerous embedded URLs, many pointing to disposable domains or redirectors, suggests a phishing or malware distribution scheme. The document body, though heavily obfuscated, contains text related to downloading a PDF, reinforcing the lure.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9945

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://extranet.blanchisserie-toulousaine-de-sante.com/sites/extranet.blanchisserie-toulousaine-de-sante.com/files/documents/justificatifs/pefusoxewirevujilo.pdf
    • https://www.osgeurope.com/sites/osg-corporate.dev/files/webform/28911573484.pdf
    • https://www.woonsocketri.org/system/temporary/webform/konoju.pdf
    • https://www.osgeurope.com/sites/osg-corporate.dev/files/webform/27880179426.pdf
    • https://www.pharoxglobal.com/sites/default/files/webform/7322176875.pdf
    • http://www.muttypawsacademy.com/sites/default/files/webform/vaccines/95859103094.pdf
    • https://www.uts.cw/sites/default/files/webform/50818196885.pdf
    • http://cicatsalud.com/html/sites/default/files/webform/bulurifabisiwotubavigivos.pdf
    • https://ambrose.edu/sites/default/files/webform/vopezupudatirarib.pdf
    • https://www.natsihwa.org.au/sites/default/files/webform/51762260361.pdf
    • https://www.afscme65.org/system/files/webform/52844377902.pdf
    • http://oaklandchildcare.org/sites/default/files/webform/subeditanutojodojewogize.pdf
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/typedesigners.html
    • http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Uplcv/~3/BvfzZFkJO3s/uplcv?utm_term=antrenmanlarla+geometri+1+%25C3%25A7%25C3%25B6z%25C3%25BCmleri+pdf+indir
    • https://campusrec.princeton.edu/system/files/webform/popikinof.pdf
    • https://thesanfordschool.asu.edu/sites/default/files/webform/31460711967.pdf
    • https://www.vub.be/sites/vub/files/webform/lijulur.pdf
    • https://ec.europa.eu/eip/agriculture/sites/default/files/webform/66140853426.pdf
    • https://ec.europa.eu/eip/agriculture/sites/default/files/webform/5272012193.pdf
    • https://www.healthdata.org/sites/default/files/resumes/jojilekavoxojomoz.pdf
    • https://www.healthdata.org/sites/default/files/resumes/18848190838.pdf
    • http://scripts.sil.org/OFL
    • http://dejavu.sourceforge.net
    • http://dejavu.sourceforge.net/wiki/index.php/License

Extracted artifacts 3

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
font_00_sfnt_off0000da8b.bin
3631834a0470e09e0b7b8a6d91641817542e844ae82e7b050216313aa12b2df2
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xDA8B 5712 bytes
font_01_sfnt_off0000ed72.bin
c025ad1dffd3b3507f3b3c829154bd32387a1a0dbe2cf12b8fb5a1dda9b5e760
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xED72 13000 bytes
font_02_sfnt_off0001156b.bin
60f53b17f7925ac1818ac9336ea58fd206fea48872b5377b70e6fb8114080afd
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x1156B 16132 bytes