Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 1a3277ec86fbd2e2…

MALICIOUS

PDF

54.4 KB Created: 2021-04-21 07:11:04 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7) First seen: 2021-09-23
MD5: 26b4685151af71ed194566b394e59e34 SHA-1: c7487c777af65ddc3daf2b01b168e66b5265ae6b SHA-256: 1a3277ec86fbd2e211466fff1c65bcfe04f791a8f56438e7f0064ee828a316b1
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 0.5945

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 https://www.dgs-interparts.be/sites/default/files/bipaxuvimul.pdf In PDF document text
    • https://ambrose.edu/sites/default/files/webform/kubuxodadiwozubak.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://cicatsalud.com/html/sites/default/files/webform/buvonajevomowetizebijix.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.ofalloncasting.com/sites/default/files/webform/zuloliresu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ambrose.edu/sites/default/files/webform/fabifuturofutip.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://oaklandchildcare.org/sites/default/files/webform/26688185713.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://oaklandchildcare.org/sites/default/files/webform/veser.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://extranet.blanchisserie-toulousaine-de-sante.com/sites/extranet.blanchisserie-toulousaine-de-sante.com/files/documents/justificatifs/ratasivovo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://klm3fg.grhosting.cz/sites/default/files/webform/files/15194676649.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.jsif.org/sites/default/files/webform/rijuluzevowogadabiwi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Uplcv/~3/zMnd8XtcwSM/uplcv?utm_term=how+to+write+profile+statement+for+resumePDF link annotation
    • https://lib.asu.edu/system/files/webform/bejugejotofetuxiw.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ubmemeaensoprod.s3.amazonaws.com/ifsec_international/call_for_papers/2021/03/1901815882.pdfIn PDF document text