Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 fa6bb9ce41393d2f…

MALICIOUS

PDF

71.6 KB Created: 2021-04-26 12:35:19 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7) First seen: 2021-07-13
MD5: 9ea606cd5a8d0d2249422ca3a91a28b8 SHA-1: aaf61be9c30e1b8cb514089287d27ea0b199192d SHA-256: fa6bb9ce41393d2f51e7a2c9b3526dab9ae48b336894715b940e15d2229940d7
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 compromised or disposable domains, indicating a link farm or phishing lure. The ML classifier and ClamAV detection strongly suggest malicious intent, likely to redirect users to malicious sites or download further payloads. Although no scripts were explicitly extracted, the PDF structure and URL patterns are consistent with common phishing and malware distribution techniques.

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 http://cicatsalud.com/html/sites/default/files/webform/68038126183.pdf In PDF document text
    • https://www.natsihwa.org.au/sites/default/files/webform/21073527915.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.newburghgroup.com/sites/default/files/webform/resumes/tikijoti.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.jsif.org/sites/default/files/webform/vinuriruxelapaviwona.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.enwidth.com/sites/default/files/webform/resumes/17232120942.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.pharoxglobal.com/sites/default/files/webform/balulata.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.mainephilanthropy.org/sites/default/files/30695142459.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ambrose.edu/sites/default/files/webform/46846662681.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.osgeurope.com/sites/osg-corporate.dev/files/webform/27880179426.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.visitsavannah.com/sites/default/files/webform/90994069376.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.uts.cw/sites/default/files/webform/bofuwidesuxugebogaxa.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.enwidth.com/sites/default/files/webform/resumes/95374483905.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.muttypawsacademy.com/sites/default/files/webform/vaccines/17184396690.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/YTWXjIUwRh0/uplcv?utm_term=washington+dc+weather+in+march+2018PDF link annotation
    • https://drones.princeton.edu/system/files/webform/66931006591.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_off0000da10.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xDA10 5944 bytes
SHA-256: 4eab6190ded9e87a89cea5436a6aae94700ff1d06bd1d6330479130d0cc0cfe9
font_01_sfnt_off0000ee3e.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xEE3E 10368 bytes
SHA-256: 261d573e1b8fc558768583648c9a30e32102bd41434967d2e87ee13ba5d281ff

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