Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 f519a6d4e4fdfd2e…

MALICIOUS

PDF

68.5 KB Created: 2021-04-17 15:38:33 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7) First seen: 2021-05-29
MD5: 919defc8e2096c3a312d4e2f7c7a0a71 SHA-1: 9365504e8a80a8221f01fc88f04277c7c34bb8c5 SHA-256: f519a6d4e4fdfd2e625e0d031396f1825d9aebb0054ab83449ee00bc5ac634b7
126 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF contains numerous embedded URLs, with a high heuristic score indicating it functions as a link farm on disposable hosting. The ML classifier and ClamAV detection strongly suggest malicious intent, likely phishing or malware delivery. While no scripts were directly extracted, the PDF structure and embedded URIs are indicative of an attempt to redirect users to malicious sites.

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.birdlifebotswana.org.bw/sites/default/files/webform/sightings-sketches/beporu.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://www.pacificsportfraservalley.com/sites/default/files/webform/12938533755.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ambrose.edu/sites/default/files/webform/93854264345.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.enwidth.com/sites/default/files/webform/resumes/bemefunojupupik.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.natsihwa.org.au/sites/default/files/webform/welukugipevodabarovefeweb.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.muttypawsacademy.com/sites/default/files/webform/vaccines/17184396690.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.a1touchsolution.nl/sites/default/files/64517041799.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.guninetwork.org/system/files/webform/heirri_proposals/74543186253.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.telluridescience.org/sites/default/files/tstc-applications/pagasumoxozodaxatukaliwus.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.a1touchsolution.nl/sites/default/files/51131620028.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.a1touchsolution.nl/sites/default/files/56489371510.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.grotekeukens.be/sites/default/files/webform/gmawards2018/dakatiwilu.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/zMnd8XtcwSM/uplcv?utm_term=ley+de+ohm+pdf+ejerciciosPDF link annotation
    • 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_off0000cb94.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xCB94 5272 bytes
SHA-256: 408fcc3e5dc5833ea4d98f12b524242dc8c1cb814a13c3a6951dff095237e850
font_01_sfnt_off0000dd71.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xDD71 11796 bytes
SHA-256: 11edfdebad0df69fee4fdad42923f8f02724051adb66cdaed2490409e22566f4