Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 f19cf282ae7e4c38…

MALICIOUS

PDF

81.6 KB Created: 2021-04-06 18:21:08 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7) First seen: 2021-06-04
MD5: 1d0382a99cee90d97b56d126a5b60269 SHA-1: 0714f6d175ad0651f1d0e20e738d5d49bb3ba9f6 SHA-256: f19cf282ae7e4c3868f6b09e9879cd353b8578d798812fc85d9a413a82036ff2
126 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF contains numerous embedded URLs, many of which are hosted on benign domains but are part of a link farm designed to obscure the true destination. The ML classifier and ClamAV detection strongly indicate malicious intent, likely related to phishing or malware delivery. Although no scripts were explicitly extracted, the PDF structure and URL patterns are consistent with malicious documents.

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://www.mothercare.ro/sites/default/files/webform/resumes/95866450710.pdf In PDF document text
    • https://www.ofalloncasting.com/sites/default/files/webform/tirudekamevajoluzagobumi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://aboss.by/sites/default/files/webform/pibodanagulevegomenet.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.jsif.org/sites/default/files/webform/meratasadif.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.telluridescience.org/sites/default/files/tstc-applications/38780162719.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://cicatsalud.com/html/sites/default/files/webform/17654710786.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://oaklandchildcare.org/sites/default/files/webform/veser.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.termis.org/system/files/webform/88699151804.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ambrose.edu/sites/default/files/webform/fenalop.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.woonsocketri.org/system/temporary/webform/konoju.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.natsihwa.org.au/sites/default/files/webform/25680057182.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://fontawesome.iohttp://fontawesome.io/license/In PDF document text
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/In PDF document text
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/typedesigners.htmlIn PDF document text
    • http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Uplcv/~3/DOqCt-cVA4I/uplcv?utm_term=sistema+sexagesimal+centesimal+y+radial+pdfPDF link annotation
    • https://community.princeton.edu/system/files/webform/22535495660.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://community.princeton.edu/system/files/webform/xakefabobadu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://printandmail.princeton.edu/system/files/webform/83605599331.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://printandmail.princeton.edu/system/files/webform/zixulupuritijidegebi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ec.europa.eu/eip/agriculture/sites/default/files/webform/56905881998.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://community.princeton.edu/system/files/webform/luzixuganigofifabeja.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_off0000ea99.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xEA99 3940 bytes
SHA-256: 0ebcc6efb72e678dccb4743afbdee1048ec9b0165d7ce8362df6476fcc9fa718
font_01_sfnt_off0000f9c4.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF9C4 5748 bytes
SHA-256: 8a50f74b87b23206a2aefe28bed17b32691183019fc9f28710623360230bc582
font_02_sfnt_off00010d4b.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x10D4B 12896 bytes
SHA-256: 6cb7a807f002f4d42b0a7b08eff4cbd4a599eff048a7afb8942f29e4e7040c9c