Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 ffe698d257f2f76c…

MALICIOUS

PDF

68.6 KB Created: 2021-04-26 21:52:13 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7) First seen: 2021-05-29
MD5: 0e910f25b49cb22131b1ab8062ca9215 SHA-1: 2bfda415ac3de8ea1c28ab29678276d24722f314 SHA-256: ffe698d257f2f76c4c88d00f86d9253f827a0d771cf203b5743b7e6fb18f2df1
126 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF document was flagged by ML classifiers and ClamAV as malicious, indicating a high likelihood of malicious intent. The heuristic 'PDF_SEO_DISPOSABLE_LINK_FARM' suggests the document is designed to host numerous links on disposable domains, a common tactic for phishing or distributing further malware. While no scripts were explicitly extracted, the presence of embedded URIs and the nature of the link farm heuristic point towards an attack pattern focused on redirecting users to potentially harmful external content.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9998

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.termis.org/system/files/webform/776381217.pdf In PDF document text
    • https://www.woonsocketri.org/system/temporary/webform/kebadewanizokodijixupid.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.uts.cw/sites/default/files/webform/vogoledifekotukedadawen.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.newburghgroup.com/sites/default/files/webform/resumes/tikijoti.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.sumnercountyhospital.org/sites/default/files/webform/vetasitumuwogemukuruv.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.grotekeukens.be/sites/default/files/webform/gmawards2018/sumeli.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://grossenbacher.co.nz/en/system/files/avoidance-training-certificates/87762274679.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://vectorcorp.net/sites/default/files/webform/resume/tefofavokalozigukar.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.uts.cw/sites/default/files/webform/xewaz.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ambrose.edu/sites/default/files/webform/9979090083.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://cicatsalud.com/html/sites/default/files/webform/93477879009.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://russian-ice-spb.ru/sites/default/files/webform/files/42282539280.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/FevRqgeaUVY/uplcv?utm_term=how+loud+is+the+fluval+fx6PDF link annotation
    • https://thesanfordschool.asu.edu/sites/default/files/webform/83703622856.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://community.princeton.edu/system/files/webform/36479690150.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://lib.asu.edu/system/files/webform/nexeginexepor.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_off0000d163.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xD163 5236 bytes
SHA-256: 4258fa41c572fcd69a45301bb53936e3a7136a6f68582e168d2f6894946c23e4
font_01_sfnt_off0000e34c.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xE34C 10208 bytes
SHA-256: ee156f7a75205a0968952226f0f92cb4b4d53c0533c48d863842ce18c4cc3922