Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 fcfb13bf234579fd…

MALICIOUS

PDF

67.3 KB Created: 2021-04-27 12:48:10 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7) First seen: 2021-05-29
MD5: 986a48f60724e5a4d2c1500a61539443 SHA-1: 66df24b40492c0e9db031c3c5c89d1ff42ee83c0 SHA-256: fcfb13bf234579fdf2ed6de15a029284b9e43aa2b0308dde2ca272e22c542ca3
126 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF contains numerous embedded URLs, with one heuristic specifically identifying it as a link farm on disposable hosting. The ML classifier and ClamAV detection strongly indicate malicious intent, likely phishing or malware delivery. While no scripts were explicitly extracted, the PDF structure and embedded links suggest it's designed to redirect users to malicious sites.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9995

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://klm3fg.grhosting.cz/sites/default/files/webform/files/15194676649.pdf In PDF document text
    • https://www.visitsavannah.com/sites/default/files/webform/90994069376.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.a1touchsolution.nl/sites/default/files/26511902049.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.dgs-interparts.be/sites/default/files/36138637258.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.pacificsportfraservalley.com/sites/default/files/webform/90877516301.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/DOqCt-cVA4I/uplcv?utm_term=probability+of+simple+events+worksheet+answers+pdfPDF link annotation
    • https://ec.europa.eu/eip/agriculture/sites/default/files/webform/76225898136.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.vub.be/sites/vub/files/webform/16824703900.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://campusrec.princeton.edu/system/files/webform/26909318775.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://lib.asu.edu/system/files/webform/delibenapu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://campusrec.princeton.edu/system/files/webform/febapaxugodikuzakepob.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_off0000c9e9.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xC9E9 5740 bytes
SHA-256: a04704f85548b7d935abd96327f3cbfa503b92d7edce2061c27b85cb65521302
font_01_sfnt_off0000dd58.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xDD58 10372 bytes
SHA-256: 880c1d18a5fb46e283498c5e40283ef739b559b2bfcc37154dd76ad4d859ff15