Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 ecd2d787d016c06d…

MALICIOUS

PDF

75.7 KB Created: 2021-04-14 14:00:45 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7) First seen: 2021-05-29
MD5: 8960bcae2edb8a988092760b9050b037 SHA-1: 775ac9c6159d2aedcb5a323bc58f998d68013dc5 SHA-256: ecd2d787d016c06dd8ddbd87f7cf2b5ac4c2f834fd6ce7240f444398dc6565d3
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, suggests a lure related to a 'printable world time zone map'. The presence of numerous external URIs, many pointing to link farms on disposable hosting, indicates an attempt to redirect users to malicious sites. No scripts were extracted, but the PDF structure and heuristics suggest it's designed to exploit vulnerabilities or lead users to phishing pages.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9998

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://architecturaldesigninc.com/sites/default/files/36110977311.pdf In PDF document text
    • https://ambrose.edu/sites/default/files/webform/sudelo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://klm3fg.grhosting.cz/sites/default/files/webform/files/todoxobolukajit.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.muttypawsacademy.com/sites/default/files/webform/vaccines/30199048500.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.visitsavannah.com/sites/default/files/webform/59391310887.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.muttypawsacademy.com/sites/default/files/webform/vaccines/ranet.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ambrose.edu/sites/default/files/webform/42416127327.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.pharoxglobal.com/sites/default/files/webform/50635107556.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.dgs-interparts.be/sites/default/files/57515461030.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.ofalloncasting.com/sites/default/files/webform/tasuwagorefovufozibojer.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://pilgrimland.com/sites/default/files/webform/resume-uploads/69774832497.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://vectorcorp.net/sites/default/files/webform/resume/wogudodijanaferewinige.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.dgs-interparts.be/sites/default/files/xufatonapa.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
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Uplcv/~3/Om9ozkHLxGw/uplcv?utm_term=printable+world+time+zone+map+pdfPDF link annotation
    • https://thesanfordschool.asu.edu/sites/default/files/webform/lezedatabamivija.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://lib.asu.edu/system/files/webform/liwubuwivak.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 3

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
font_00_sfnt_off0000df11.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xDF11 5080 bytes
SHA-256: 34b68c92ed7dda322168c227b77829cafc0b0ebd73307a9e71f605d8bc427c08
font_01_sfnt_off0000f045.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF045 10536 bytes
SHA-256: 8178b73017b7b689179d51f37c630cc7e1f60780368ad09c2bf893bd73251c0e
font_02_sfnt_off000113d3.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x113D3 4324 bytes
SHA-256: 0d0f64e27578eb124b8bc81c7eceacdd166e22eddd95c81328e9fbd7de2a6333