Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 f7b7ebbd861a043b…

MALICIOUS

PDF

78.4 KB Created: 2021-04-11 16:17:18 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7) First seen: 2021-05-29
MD5: efaab6bfcb37244341c3e4ce2ea1fffd SHA-1: 2cac951880308cee7e34af35332ed2ef7162f81a SHA-256: f7b7ebbd861a043b40bf327511bf0bb351f4cc02304d5f993e39ae00ecb588ff
126 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF contains numerous embedded URLs, many of which point to potentially malicious domains, indicating a link farm or phishing attempt. The ML classifier and ClamAV detection strongly suggest malicious intent. While no scripts were explicitly extracted, the PDF structure and embedded links are indicative of a spearphishing attachment designed to redirect users to harmful content.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9996

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.pbttphtk.gov.my/sites/default/files/webform/74795851198.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://cicatsalud.com/html/sites/default/files/webform/61943826361.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.a1touchsolution.nl/sites/default/files/64517041799.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://russian-ice-spb.ru/sites/default/files/webform/files/32020734574.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://aboss.by/sites/default/files/webform/12132802610.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://web.liderpapel.com/sites/default/files/webform/36759883892.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.woonsocketri.org/system/temporary/webform/54194604641.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://oaklandchildcare.org/sites/default/files/webform/70037852461.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://cicatsalud.com/html/sites/default/files/webform/28693943460.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.enwidth.com/sites/default/files/webform/resumes/22435641867.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://grossenbacher.co.nz/en/system/files/avoidance-training-certificates/3242210986.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/skout/mBVl/~3/DOqCt-cVA4I/uplcv?utm_term=tulus+mp3+terbaruPDF link annotation
    • https://community.princeton.edu/system/files/webform/kabajizonen.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://printandmail.princeton.edu/system/files/webform/fasulegok.pdfIn PDF document text
    • 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 4

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
font_00_sfnt_off0000dbb3.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xDBB3 3868 bytes
SHA-256: 2454eea25ce4db9787d0057fb21689def08a936374bdfec33028cb268c2118c2
font_01_sfnt_off0000e964.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xE964 4836 bytes
SHA-256: 267513576928706e85c501bec614ed44de6e50581a7fb8a780f81a701f47c8e3
font_02_sfnt_off0000f9c5.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF9C5 10676 bytes
SHA-256: cd460f6f1cae81f218b48ce909a42e552f52d5d95ec575b6f53d465ff58724cb
font_03_sfnt_off00011e70.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x11E70 4324 bytes
SHA-256: 1062cd8ddf90f4344fa193b395386d5669df1a952e5759311ca261a71931f361