Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 fb0e9ec514e56d3a…

MALICIOUS

PDF

69.9 KB Created: 2021-04-08 04:05:32 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7) First seen: 2021-05-23
MD5: 1d98a3e46b0c31e6de139a9b23f7499f SHA-1: 13d04fa19362ba563c8712f377a7c00234991b0e SHA-256: fb0e9ec514e56d3a6956cec9beba2580b9d1f540acf29a09f7a9d55fae5b0a8a
134 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF was flagged as malicious by a machine learning classifier and ClamAV, indicating a high likelihood of malicious intent. The 'SE_INVOICE_LURE' heuristic suggests the document's content is designed to trick the user into taking an action, likely by clicking on one of the embedded links. While no scripts were explicitly extracted, the PDF structure and heuristics point towards a phishing or credential harvesting attempt.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9997

Heuristics 6

  • 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.
  • Fake invoice / payment lure low SE_INVOICE_LURE
    Document contains invoice or payment language paired with an action verb — useful context when combined with link, macro, or attachment indicators
  • 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.enwidth.com/sites/default/files/webform/resumes/90018929780.pdf In PDF document text
    • https://www.newburghgroup.com/sites/default/files/webform/resumes/talazeleravu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.enwidth.com/sites/default/files/webform/resumes/17232120942.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://extranet.blanchisserie-toulousaine-de-sante.com/sites/extranet.blanchisserie-toulousaine-de-sante.com/files/documents/justificatifs/bugoxugokerudanetisene.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://web.liderpapel.com/sites/default/files/webform/kivalin.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ambrose.edu/sites/default/files/webform/zateguzafafidefezibexe.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.natsihwa.org.au/sites/default/files/webform/72917344941.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.pbttphtk.gov.my/sites/default/files/webform/nolukaronedibikix.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://portal-mysigma.com/system/files/student-proof/41429692510.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://grossenbacher.co.nz/en/system/files/avoidance-training-certificates/xetomaroronep.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.natsihwa.org.au/sites/default/files/webform/81826716543.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/In PDF document text
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/typedesigners.htmlIn PDF document text
    • http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Uplcv/~3/Om9ozkHLxGw/uplcv?utm_term=articles+of+organization+md+pdfPDF link annotation
    • https://www.ice.cam.ac.uk/sites/www.ice.cam.ac.uk/files/webform/50075528518.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_off0000d3d7.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xD3D7 5512 bytes
SHA-256: 9c3b5ddf615d92fdfd8936fe463b6a22dbee0ffb7dbbe6bff0235e4884c90066
font_01_sfnt_off0000e68e.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xE68E 10848 bytes
SHA-256: e63ac9178ceb846b022ea14f36a88a721c02a1068758989e14eac815f7a5f5d2