Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 22baf58548b00c4c…

MALICIOUS

PDF

63.6 KB Created: 2021-04-23 10:31:56 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7) First seen: 2021-09-23
MD5: c11eeb9ab8237307c88d42ca8a775b12 SHA-1: b48d3239cfc0a30889a59c1d33669e4f57ef9fbe SHA-256: 22baf58548b00c4cf8808df34bc56df8b0606c3fa22e10f55e0a158f77ee61f7
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 0.5643

Heuristics 4

  • ClamAV: Pdf.Phishing.Trojan-d2528dad23a95d95-d2528dad23a95d95-10044376-0 critical CLAMAV_DETECTION
    ClamAV detected this file as malware: Pdf.Phishing.Trojan-d2528dad23a95d95-d2528dad23a95d95-10044376-0
  • 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://vectorcorp.net/sites/default/files/webform/resume/tefofavokalozigukar.pdf In PDF document text
    • https://www.visitsavannah.com/sites/default/files/webform/71260674720.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.jwico.com/sites/default/files/webform/41164207556.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.dgs-interparts.be/sites/default/files/64751185730.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://klm3fg.grhosting.cz/sites/default/files/webform/files/78191676466.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.woonsocketri.org/system/temporary/webform/mupiroto.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/Uplcv/~3/BvfzZFkJO3s/uplcv?utm_term=platero+y+yo+resumen+personajesPDF link annotation
    • https://community.princeton.edu/system/files/webform/13590028771.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.healthdata.org/sites/default/files/resumes/fanonexujezurexuli.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://printandmail.princeton.edu/system/files/webform/21250884575.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_off0000d5e8.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xD5E8 5144 bytes
SHA-256: f9d0e0af55038b4f543cdffc6ff46e59bfa86179a8f5998201df8450276f2d92