Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 45531eeafd639057…

MALICIOUS

PDF

59.9 KB Created: 2021-04-21 20:28:21 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7) First seen: 2021-09-23
MD5: 74a70ae13a7623c48a0a647b87e6fae3 SHA-1: 7869dfdf4fa124b0cf62753b03437d4371f2a649 SHA-256: 45531eeafd63905746c0c5c3c0054fdffdf7f42432bc5ab9dc78cfd780299fd1
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 0.7927

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.cdcplumbing.com/sites/default/files/webform/contact-us/sawifujemenolezaf.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://klm3fg.grhosting.cz/sites/default/files/webform/files/40110328039.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.ofalloncasting.com/sites/default/files/webform/81254010544.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.friendlycc.com/sites/default/files/webform/tojatovovezugunubi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.jsif.org/sites/default/files/webform/kedoruxanagavapiwo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://oaklandchildcare.org/sites/default/files/webform/dakorudi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.natsihwa.org.au/sites/default/files/webform/welukugipevodabarovefeweb.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://cicatsalud.com/html/sites/default/files/webform/jedirokadezat.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://architecturaldesigninc.com/sites/default/files/masugikiretige.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.guninetwork.org/system/files/webform/heirri_proposals/wozat.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.enwidth.com/sites/default/files/webform/resumes/noranixuguwetepefosobad.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://cicatsalud.com/html/sites/default/files/webform/sidetarebuw.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/skout/mBVl/~3/1xuhb7AK25c/uplcv?utm_term=solving+and+graphing+two+step+inequalities+worksheet+answersPDF link annotation
    • https://drones.princeton.edu/system/files/webform/zifogisabivaloxigisosobu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://community.princeton.edu/system/files/webform/kabajizonen.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_off0000cddd.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xCDDD 5548 bytes
SHA-256: 7f87e159616bb17f443a8bdd5e6d8dee4498dc6620467c0d832be3b2fc3a2be7