Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 ffc5d9842e6dfbdf…

MALICIOUS

PDF

70.8 KB Created: 2021-04-08 23:30:25 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7) First seen: 2021-05-29
MD5: d94bd75e9e46b43edbe2a492b903bd2d SHA-1: 0817afbb8abf65ab73a3d0b095e6c33a5eba88d3 SHA-256: ffc5d9842e6dfbdf1ac51e6462609227b26b89fe237c425c037e876e6b02d258
126 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF file was flagged by ML classifiers and ClamAV as malicious, indicating a high likelihood of malicious intent. The presence of numerous embedded URLs, including one identified as a link farm, suggests an attempt to redirect users to potentially harmful sites. Although no scripts were explicitly extracted, the PDF structure and heuristic firings point towards a phishing or malware distribution lure.

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 https://www.newburghgroup.com/sites/default/files/webform/resumes/talazeleravu.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://www.guninetwork.org/system/files/webform/heirri_proposals/rarapenebeku.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://web.liderpapel.com/sites/default/files/webform/21411595718.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.grotekeukens.be/sites/default/files/webform/gmawards2018/87706268510.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.dgs-interparts.be/sites/default/files/68462010443.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.a1touchsolution.nl/sites/default/files/35095474677.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.blplegal.com/sites/default/files/webform/80507347088.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.osgeurope.com/sites/osg-corporate.dev/files/webform/tajiwugebewozebukak.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://natsihwa.org.au/sites/default/files/webform/degajakuko.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.pbttphtk.gov.my/sites/default/files/webform/73261430544.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.muttypawsacademy.com/sites/default/files/webform/vaccines/37570077738.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/GLLx1DTH0VQ/uplcv?utm_term=astm+a53+pdf+freePDF link annotation
    • https://lib.asu.edu/system/files/webform/61431168480.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_off0000d478.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xD478 5432 bytes
SHA-256: 2edb387c8317c79559cf851b5d8c25c5b08d7cc8f5e6e69bfb93e7a2f325beb8
font_01_sfnt_off0000e6de.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xE6DE 11876 bytes
SHA-256: c44b828dc6ae3627279c73e26b126191aa18e470e7e1cd86ebe0e10752ac4dfe

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