Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 285c39d2e75d05a5…

MALICIOUS

PDF

50.6 KB Created: 2020-11-24 23:35:05 +02:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7)
MD5: 856e699c2272717af4dcc46e07d8d4f0 SHA-1: b0d29b5e64ad52d34e0a8fce1c2ee4241be8f85c SHA-256: 285c39d2e75d05a521a264fde566a5860cb80e1302fca5f0b9fad94acb8f5498
184 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

This PDF file contains a large number of external links, many hosted on disposable domains, suggesting a link farm or phishing operation. The presence of a URL with 'utm_term=windows+10+32+bit+professional' indicates a lure to download software. ClamAV and ML heuristics confirm its malicious nature, classifying it as a phishing trojan.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.6781

Heuristics 5

  • Small PDF contains mass external PDF link farm critical PDF_SEO_LINK_FARM
    Small PDF contains many clickable external PDF links, mostly clustered on one host. This matches generated SEO/link-farm PDF carriers used to route users into malicious or unwanted-software delivery chains, rather than a normal document citation pattern.
  • 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://traffking.ru/aws?utm_term=windows+10+32+bit+professional
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    • https://uploads.strikinglycdn.com/files/b30314f2-5500-41c7-a1ca-1791b4abc06f/xoferoduvasag.pdf
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    • https://s3.amazonaws.com/zoromexemuzid/zetigodazi.pdf
    • https://uploads.strikinglycdn.com/files/c4e93b7c-e86c-4188-80b2-27924e23b9e0/17979705361.pdf