Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 f1192fea054fbe03…

MALICIOUS

PDF

84.5 KB Created: 2021-04-26 07:55:09 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7) First seen: 2021-05-23
MD5: 941af07aa62d39d3e496d9980fd9112d SHA-1: 4005783d231dfc1b5d67c48dfa602c5be26880e4 SHA-256: f1192fea054fbe038f5665203ab91a134687f4603344e44d837f4a8f0ce48b61
126 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF contains numerous embedded URLs, with one heuristic specifically identifying it as a link farm on disposable hosting. The ML classifier and ClamAV detection strongly indicate malicious intent, likely phishing or a scam. Although no scripts were extracted, the PDF structure and embedded URIs suggest an attempt to redirect users to malicious sites.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9998

Heuristics 5

  • ClamAV: Pdf.Phishing.Trojan-d2528dad23a95d95-d2528dad23a95d95-10044376-0 critical CLAMAV_DETECTION
    ClamAV detected this file as malware: Pdf.Phishing.Trojan-d2528dad23a95d95-d2528dad23a95d95-10044376-0
  • 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://portal-mysigma.com/system/files/student-proof/28249136979.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://www.grotekeukens.be/sites/default/files/webform/gmawards2018/87706268510.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ambrose.edu/sites/default/files/webform/zateguzafafidefezibexe.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.natsihwa.org.au/sites/default/files/webform/zolevijovexoneda.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ambrose.edu/sites/default/files/webform/61391242106.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://russian-ice-spb.ru/sites/default/files/webform/files/69309865186.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.a1touchsolution.nl/sites/default/files/togivem.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://oaklandchildcare.org/sites/default/files/webform/ponezilineg.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.dgs-interparts.be/sites/default/files/42042694998.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://vectorcorp.net/sites/default/files/webform/resume/wogudodijanaferewinige.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://klm3fg.grhosting.cz/sites/default/files/webform/files/16831560309.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ambrose.edu/sites/default/files/webform/11118021720.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/ngfLrbzwjls/uplcv?utm_term=taurus+g2c+9mm+pistol+ammoPDF link annotation
    • https://community.princeton.edu/system/files/webform/42655509772.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_off00010b34.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x10B34 5492 bytes
SHA-256: 1e3e7701a69d63cb07e813b57a72b09ccb027695fa3b585cbb415ba20ed3e864
font_01_sfnt_off00011dc9.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x11DC9 11568 bytes
SHA-256: 287adfa6e008390635ca23cc7ea6b7c0cf38bae1e543915918bd81a00aa65c05

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