Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 f4e28a38f72405fc…

MALICIOUS

PDF

77.4 KB Created: 2021-04-23 05:47:06 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7) First seen: 2021-05-29
MD5: bf6b3e2a47a336cd4f2e022ed8ff4b33 SHA-1: 1748654a063d4b35199f77aa44371b9c1c599153 SHA-256: f4e28a38f72405fc16a15495ca4a2097b4a93f2b5b2070ec5e56722caed0c621
126 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF document contains numerous embedded URLs, many of which point to disposable domains and are structured as link farms, indicating a phishing or malicious redirection attempt. The ClamAV detection and ML classifier strongly suggest malicious content, likely related to phishing or malware delivery. Although no scripts were explicitly extracted, the PDF structure and URL patterns are indicative of a malicious document designed to lure users to potentially harmful sites.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9997

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.enwidth.com/sites/default/files/webform/resumes/17232120942.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://russian-ice-spb.ru/sites/default/files/webform/files/40307308503.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.osgeurope.com/sites/osg-corporate.dev/files/webform/vonasajevevedatenalezeb.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://portal-mysigma.com/system/files/student-proof/47432021317.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.jwico.com/sites/default/files/webform/69174909787.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ambrose.edu/sites/default/files/webform/sovurusogizafubeb.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.cdcplumbing.com/sites/default/files/webform/contact-us/65589142167.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.natsihwa.org.au/sites/default/files/webform/25680057182.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://spotlight-sites.com/sites/default/files/webform/jalipoxelelikepobolid.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/1eyvgo/aqOO/~3/A3Ryygt5BCM/uplcv?utm_term=resumen+del+libro+la+tregua+de+mario+benedettiPDF link annotation
    • https://campusrec.princeton.edu/system/files/webform/16616798570.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_off0000f2dc.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF2DC 5292 bytes
SHA-256: 50609fa6001923b486b5ba9dfcd26e5d05af360bcdbb3df19a94fcdbced858e3
font_01_sfnt_off000104c1.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x104C1 11164 bytes
SHA-256: e76e7def7ef2696f3cd9ccd7608b68b4ba73823732769471f9a46668ca0e175d