Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 ff4b179200d9d579…

MALICIOUS

PDF

64.4 KB Created: 2021-04-10 02:29:40 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7) First seen: 2021-06-17
MD5: 088a54d23727eb1a364b1ea5ddab2250 SHA-1: 4218d9a93042e8243e5926288e980f3e849b62fe SHA-256: ff4b179200d9d579a92f41bc0c3fcbfa3cf30fb80e0fbef9b7d148036a4fbb79
126 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF file contains multiple embedded URLs, some of which are flagged as link farms on disposable hosting, suggesting a phishing or malware distribution attempt. The ML classifier and ClamAV detection strongly indicate malicious intent. Although no scripts were explicitly extracted, the PDF structure and embedded links are indicative of a spearphishing attachment, likely leading to further malicious content or exploitation.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9611

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
  • PDF differential parser failed info PDF_DIFFERENTIAL_PARSE_FAILED
    The cross-check parser (pdfminer.six) failed on this file: PDF differential parser failed: PDFSyntaxError. Static heuristics still ran and any of their findings above are valid; only the differential cross-check signal is missing.
  • 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://web.liderpapel.com/sites/default/files/webform/36759883892.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://www.muttypawsacademy.com/sites/default/files/webform/vaccines/lomaxitafuvutatu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.dgs-interparts.be/sites/default/files/xufatonapa.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.natsihwa.org.au/sites/default/files/webform/zolevijovexoneda.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://aboss.by/sites/default/files/webform/32639212941.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://grossenbacher.co.nz/en/system/files/avoidance-training-certificates/xetomaroronep.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.mainephilanthropy.org/sites/default/files/guvobirewuge.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.afscme65.org/system/files/webform/rerezuduzolorefa.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://architecturaldesigninc.com/sites/default/files/56675633315.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/skout/mBVl/~3/A3Ryygt5BCM/uplcv?utm_term=toto+africa+sheet+music+pdfPDF link annotation
    • https://www.ice.cam.ac.uk/sites/www.ice.cam.ac.uk/files/webform/50075528518.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://lib.asu.edu/system/files/webform/bejugejotofetuxiw.pdfIn 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_off0000c967.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xC967 5312 bytes
SHA-256: 87514b60241dd7879e460c960d777c674e3a02fbab3f0a66381e9fb055ea120b
font_01_sfnt_off0000db4e.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xDB4E 10776 bytes
SHA-256: cd9da880083fec68dc6d1737f048c53cf7ffc4af8d6400705fc659d809374e8d