Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 f2110cddbe870f10…

MALICIOUS

PDF

71.9 KB Created: 2021-04-17 09:25:58 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7) First seen: 2021-05-26
MD5: b413a7e880458f72ef4b2401fe20d498 SHA-1: 2b7eb6ed49436dac338fc7e4085aee8268ff158c SHA-256: f2110cddbe870f1036338a20494f94bb39e28b8c7e2c457b35d4ae9de3ce0c3f
126 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment T1203 Exploitation for Client Execution

The PDF was flagged by ML classifiers and ClamAV as malicious, specifically as a phishing trojan. It contains numerous embedded URLs, many of which point to disposable domains and are structured as link farms, suggesting an attempt to obscure the true malicious intent. The document body, though heavily obfuscated, appears to be a lure related to 'Casio watch instructions'.

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 http://www.muttypawsacademy.com/sites/default/files/webform/vaccines/89533113822.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://spotlight-sites.com/sites/default/files/webform/sizewavajifur.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://seiary.com/sites/default/files/webform/rec/pexutagizoniged.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.mothercare.ro/sites/default/files/webform/resumes/49428740932.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://architecturaldesigninc.com/sites/default/files/36110977311.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.a1touchsolution.nl/sites/default/files/95216779236.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://russian-ice-spb.ru/sites/default/files/webform/files/zatepatepekaberemosigedix.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.pacificsportfraservalley.com/sites/default/files/webform/newusagolepilukakatukus.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.jts.org.jo/sites/default/files/webform/96043924660.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://oaklandchildcare.org/sites/default/files/webform/ligexupasofobepis.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.newburghgroup.com/sites/default/files/webform/resumes/falaburisidibiwad.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ambrose.edu/sites/default/files/webform/93854264345.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.afscme65.org/system/files/webform/52844377902.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/~3/3CAf4wW3hvY/uplcv?utm_term=casio+watch+w-735h+instructionsPDF link annotation
    • https://www.healthdata.org/sites/default/files/resumes/mevupuxapiledowitire.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.vub.be/sites/vub/files/webform/43319512550.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://community.princeton.edu/system/files/webform/13590028771.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ec.europa.eu/eip/agriculture/sites/default/files/webform/5272012193.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_off0000cfca.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xCFCA 5136 bytes
SHA-256: 973d285680e9431c307b196961f8cfd6eb4d919e89fda4269815bfac5b10f5fb
font_01_sfnt_off0000e14d.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xE14D 10372 bytes
SHA-256: 17a6cdf9a2df2dc3efc58e5db7e8458e3fe88db54b810238497247f7294b8063
font_02_sfnt_off00010419.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x10419 4324 bytes
SHA-256: cd94ef65598b1866d0653cdd88243d989fd81359c0e770c2d3a4858f1c2f6d34