Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 fa6f4b4b96cc39e8…

MALICIOUS

PDF

104.5 KB Created: 2021-04-14 18:16:09 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7) First seen: 2021-05-26
MD5: de41b65687363b685166b84d5d649253 SHA-1: 8f41a89eb9ff81fe3268807ecc2da3e76e6ca2e2 SHA-256: fa6f4b4b96cc39e815082b3161fe922827c6bda74c1713e799276fc0a84c6229
126 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF file was flagged by a machine learning classifier and ClamAV as malicious, specifically as a phishing trojan. The heuristic 'PDF_SEO_DISPOSABLE_LINK_FARM' indicates the document is a link farm designed to distribute traffic to multiple domains. While no scripts were extracted, the embedded URLs suggest an attempt to redirect users to potentially malicious sites, likely for phishing or malware distribution.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9993

Heuristics 5

  • ClamAV: Pdf.Phishing.Trojan-d2528dad23a95d95-d2528dad23a95d95-10044376-0 critical CLAMAV_DETECTION
    ClamAV detected this file as malware: Pdf.Phishing.Trojan-d2528dad23a95d95-d2528dad23a95d95-10044376-0
  • 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/xofarazenufokedakuzos.pdf In PDF document text
    • https://www.jsif.org/sites/default/files/webform/nozixedexifanozavarojiro.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.uts.cw/sites/default/files/webform/nufideleze.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.sumnercountyhospital.org/sites/default/files/webform/bavowusakixonodokuja.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://seiary.com/sites/default/files/webform/rec/netugapufuzutazegiwiwivi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://cicatsalud.com/html/sites/default/files/webform/59286961246.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.birdlifebotswana.org.bw/sites/default/files/webform/sightings-sketches/lewuxevibonotokezesa.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://cicatsalud.com/html/sites/default/files/webform/53132673180.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.enwidth.com/sites/default/files/webform/resumes/noranixuguwetepefosobad.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.pbttphtk.gov.my/sites/default/files/webform/42283273604.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.osgeurope.com/sites/osg-corporate.dev/files/webform/99469138220.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.osgeurope.com/sites/osg-corporate.dev/files/webform/35757612566.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/FevRqgeaUVY/uplcv?utm_term=exercices+sur+les+multiples+cm2PDF link annotation
    • https://printandmail.princeton.edu/system/files/webform/ziwilijevugibapuvoboka.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
    • http://dejavu.sourceforge.netIn PDF document text
    • http://dejavu.sourceforge.net/wiki/index.php/LicenseIn PDF document text

Extracted artifacts 5

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
font_00_sfnt_off00012a1e.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x12A1E 3024 bytes
SHA-256: 9c53cb1f1c2ab62acb2d127ee763ee7f91a3b366335594f1b5edc72904697fce
font_01_sfnt_off000134e6.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x134E6 4692 bytes
SHA-256: 10370877fcc359639eba2e94bbb5831d680151441d60ee67d149fced91668e31
font_02_sfnt_off000144e2.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x144E2 13688 bytes
SHA-256: d150672f956de159419861a9ab492fb2fe21a3e907e4bfc07a769e4834fdf8d2
font_03_sfnt_off00016fa3.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x16FA3 16224 bytes
SHA-256: c4441e48b2f68604838bd51e3092d1355fc6ad73caca962ec91191dcf11ac5c9
font_04_sfnt_off000184ca.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x184CA 4324 bytes
SHA-256: b50a2106bf82917db0cd3cf88f63c5e8cc3298b343ace5cffc591b35df33d24c