Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 00cdfda489512d80…

MALICIOUS

PDF

61.2 KB Created: 2021-04-11 15:21:23 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7) First seen: 2021-09-23
MD5: 0306842e4c76fbf69597c46a8ace0414 SHA-1: b929e979871d5a9fad4de7a6689ce05bb4efe4a8 SHA-256: 00cdfda489512d80a9d2f9bb2ffd7cb6b1e3a3f0c87bcdb0847c31420c2bf8e5
124 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment T1203 Exploitation for Client Execution T1059.007 JavaScript

This PDF document was flagged as malicious by ClamAV and an ML classifier. The file embeds a large number of external links characteristic of an SEO link farm. Specific URLs and indicators for this sample are listed in the indicators section.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.7689

Heuristics 4

  • 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
  • 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/78191676466.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://pilgrimland.com/sites/default/files/webform/resume-uploads/mikax.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ambrose.edu/sites/default/files/webform/9027254294.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://grossenbacher.co.nz/en/system/files/avoidance-training-certificates/tatemomolefifepa.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.pharoxglobal.com/sites/default/files/webform/70645978292.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.muttypawsacademy.com/sites/default/files/webform/vaccines/95859103094.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.enwidth.com/sites/default/files/webform/resumes/17232120942.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://spotlight-sites.com/sites/default/files/webform/loboje.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.sumnercountyhospital.org/sites/default/files/webform/27017481005.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.visitsavannah.com/sites/default/files/webform/71260674720.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.friendlycc.com/sites/default/files/webform/74296331991.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/YTWXjIUwRh0/uplcv?utm_term=facebook+101+okey+plus+hilesi+cheatPDF link annotation
    • https://lib.asu.edu/system/files/webform/56381184371.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://campusrec.princeton.edu/system/files/webform/7624886728.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://scripts.sil.org/OFLIn PDF document text

Extracted artifacts 1

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
font_00_sfnt_off0000d1af.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xD1AF 5380 bytes
SHA-256: 948bd2c4b4325c4f8f4b02ec7c76369fff7b3b20b986aff04c5e8fc088c70e73