Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 f82fb5eb0ae1fd52…

MALICIOUS

PDF

69.9 KB Created: 2021-04-14 07:49:54 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7) First seen: 2021-05-29
MD5: 1e625a16d556719c2d6e2c47eafe2ba7 SHA-1: d88750cf0c3b14bfcd070f31970dfef7e3e44295 SHA-256: f82fb5eb0ae1fd524a6b1029d39d8f3537ada90eec667fddae24f5046d34c1cf
126 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF contains numerous links to disposable domains, indicating a link farm designed to obscure the ultimate destination. The ML classifier and ClamAV detection strongly suggest malicious intent, likely for phishing or malware distribution. While no scripts were explicitly extracted, the PDF structure and URL patterns are consistent with malicious document lures.

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/lomaxitafuvutatu.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://www.sumnercountyhospital.org/sites/default/files/webform/bavowusakixonodokuja.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://oaklandchildcare.org/sites/default/files/webform/41266633523.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://spotlight-sites.com/sites/default/files/webform/razodogodipuvubetixem.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ambrose.edu/sites/default/files/webform/58234525485.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.pbttphtk.gov.my/sites/default/files/webform/74795851198.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://cicatsalud.com/html/sites/default/files/webform/99368311749.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://vectorcorp.net/sites/default/files/webform/resume/sowasipaxezok.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.telluridescience.org/sites/default/files/tstc-applications/pagasumoxozodaxatukaliwus.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.muttypawsacademy.com/sites/default/files/webform/vaccines/65827293628.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.termis.org/system/files/webform/nibobuzokojovafizuza.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/skout/mBVl/~3/DOqCt-cVA4I/uplcv?utm_term=visual+gameboy+advance+pokemon+emeraPDF link annotation
    • https://community.princeton.edu/system/files/webform/putirufulexuxibo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.vub.be/sites/vub/files/webform/siwujomizawafoxewop.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://lib.asu.edu/system/files/webform/vabomabexajamoja.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_off0000d3a3.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xD3A3 5724 bytes
SHA-256: 132809d56135486c2350bf16ef4aa0f26831739bc7996cc2daf71c22463f85fb
font_01_sfnt_off0000e714.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xE714 10512 bytes
SHA-256: 429fc2cec73c7c754142d74252a2dd73c3194b9b1594de5a4d54a67d7beb33e0