Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 f933e8314d50c546…

MALICIOUS

PDF

72.9 KB Created: 2021-04-24 17:57:21 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7) First seen: 2021-05-29
MD5: 313261459ac55e64d3368f5e0689a32b SHA-1: 763c44f40339af9cbe871a021aeb764e78bd68ed SHA-256: f933e8314d50c546fa05262122b7f634ff1686b9ab6a1ae8ad9f8004d8f958a1
126 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF contains numerous embedded URLs, many of which are hosted on unknown or potentially suspicious domains, indicating a link farm or phishing attempt. The ML classifier and ClamAV detection strongly suggest malicious intent, likely related to phishing or malware distribution. Although no scripts were explicitly extracted, the PDF structure and embedded URIs are indicative of malicious activity.

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.a1touchsolution.nl/sites/default/files/26511902049.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://www.grotekeukens.be/sites/default/files/webform/gmawards2018/dufadurelabakugozuku.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://europa-ts.ru/sites/default/files/webform/totikejeropisatuzubafaba.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://cicatsalud.com/html/sites/default/files/webform/65000750087.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://cicatsalud.com/html/sites/default/files/webform/15691680518.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.visitsavannah.com/sites/default/files/webform/mubojezelu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://grossenbacher.co.nz/en/system/files/avoidance-training-certificates/tojawi.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=mixed+strategy+nash+equilibrium+example+2x2PDF link annotation
    • https://thesanfordschool.asu.edu/sites/default/files/webform/63066688876.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.ice.cam.ac.uk/sites/www.ice.cam.ac.uk/files/webform/46273532178.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.healthdata.org/sites/default/files/resumes/sutuzosugogaw.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ec.europa.eu/eip/agriculture/sites/default/files/webform/95830943344.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_off0000dc2f.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xDC2F 5948 bytes
SHA-256: 664e0e1ac8f4918d1ff8a11e53c46e085751e3ff7cd6a1a7d6d5b974aa02cdfc
font_01_sfnt_off0000f04e.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF04E 11588 bytes
SHA-256: bebf1feb18db940e1ce278cdae0e34b92b2c49f3bc821c57fbc9ff8798acae5a