Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 1ba5af86b4aa8fc3…

MALICIOUS

PDF

55.4 KB Created: 2021-04-23 23:14:38 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7) First seen: 2021-11-24
MD5: 16ee8c39d07410455cdbbba6da416352 SHA-1: 74f2150ba34233172be02092b6444f61727a9a4e SHA-256: 1ba5af86b4aa8fc3d5d34e28b327d56d535f401b65fe3c673cfc2827ba5ba17e
124 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF contains numerous embedded URLs, many of which point to potentially malicious or unknown domains, suggesting a phishing or malware distribution attempt. The heuristic 'PDF_SEO_DISPOSABLE_LINK_FARM' indicates a large number of links on disposable hosting, further supporting this. ClamAV detection as 'Pdf.Phishing.Trojan' confirms the malicious nature. No scripts were extracted from this sample.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.6664

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://cicatsalud.com/html/sites/default/files/webform/28693943460.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://oaklandchildcare.org/sites/default/files/webform/71502920023.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.jts.org.jo/sites/default/files/webform/1653940235.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.jsif.org/sites/default/files/webform/nozixedexifanozavarojiro.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.jts.org.jo/sites/default/files/webform/76938035167.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.birdlifebotswana.org.bw/sites/default/files/webform/sightings-sketches/fipeforivu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.jwico.com/sites/default/files/webform/69174909787.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/1eyvgo/aqOO/~3/BkSY9tpko7c/uplcv?utm_term=go+to+market+plan+template+powerpointPDF link annotation
    • https://ubmemeaensoprod.s3.amazonaws.com/ifsec_international/call_for_papers/2021/03/60395266702.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://thesanfordschool.asu.edu/sites/default/files/webform/43157208480.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://community.princeton.edu/system/files/webform/64301273598.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://printandmail.princeton.edu/system/files/webform/fasulegok.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.vub.be/sites/vub/files/webform/86005813007.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.ice.cam.ac.uk/sites/www.ice.cam.ac.uk/files/webform/7842358922.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://gradfutures.princeton.edu/system/files/webform/xafuzekimizitigemuseli.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://community.princeton.edu/system/files/webform/vujipudujusikal.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://printandmail.princeton.edu/system/files/webform/mizol.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://printandmail.princeton.edu/system/files/webform/83328436210.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.vub.be/sites/vub/files/webform/gegisikirusesikogibo.pdfIn PDF document text