Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 f79eea0545a2f00a…

MALICIOUS

PDF

69.2 KB Created: 2021-04-10 17:01:09 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7) First seen: 2021-11-25
MD5: 89bb074a16512daa27d55c2a0ebe5e4c SHA-1: 6adb6e476aa4c100618c8a629023ab4e99b7b0a0 SHA-256: f79eea0545a2f00a92f7eab5bb60a275e36f177c93fed9a6edaf6a3d64c7b50d
126 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF file was flagged as malicious by ML classifiers and ClamAV, indicating a high likelihood of malicious intent. The presence of numerous external URIs, some with UTM parameters suggesting tracking, points towards a phishing or malware distribution scheme. Although no scripts were explicitly extracted, the PDF structure and embedded links are commonly used 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.guninetwork.org/system/files/webform/heirri_proposals/32710798707.pdf In PDF document text
    • https://ambrose.edu/sites/default/files/webform/juremetepatofuf.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://extranet.blanchisserie-toulousaine-de-sante.com/sites/extranet.blanchisserie-toulousaine-de-sante.com/files/documents/justificatifs/ziseriwutekezarog.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.natsihwa.org.au/sites/default/files/webform/tesogiruzan.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://grossenbacher.co.nz/en/system/files/avoidance-training-certificates/95133977644.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://aboss.by/sites/default/files/webform/zivexovoburowunaxomenip.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://klm3fg.grhosting.cz/sites/default/files/webform/files/5308316073.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://grossenbacher.co.nz/en/system/files/avoidance-training-certificates/bekam.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.muttypawsacademy.com/sites/default/files/webform/vaccines/powevalixerofewum.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/~3/1KS0DP0cxss/uplcv?utm_term=marley+headphones+reviewPDF link annotation
    • https://www.ice.cam.ac.uk/sites/www.ice.cam.ac.uk/files/webform/50075528518.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://lib.asu.edu/system/files/webform/sikukuditizituxabisezopel.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ubmemeaensoprod.s3.amazonaws.com/ifsec_international/call_for_papers/2021/03/kizoromafogikigogusebef.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://printandmail.princeton.edu/system/files/webform/68272747422.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://community.princeton.edu/system/files/webform/vujipudujusikal.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_off0000d188.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xD188 5308 bytes
SHA-256: c364ff11aca4a13d8926da821e49c140679a4dd2b5a62af0e76231672341de32
font_01_sfnt_off0000e3ad.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xE3AD 10716 bytes
SHA-256: 109083ec25205ffe2d9e2d4136299a282b5e71637c5fbba0bf487a93bcb59885

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