Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 49643768797255ed…

MALICIOUS

PDF

49.0 KB Created: 2021-04-22 20:13:16 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7) First seen: 2021-09-25
MD5: 7129d8a218a58c092148ee365527f6b3 SHA-1: ec7513bff101461a682cbcf2a31638cca18aee42 SHA-256: 49643768797255ed0bfa53e3d401aea913ce72a365dd1051902206e5bbc5d6b7
124 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment T1203 Exploitation for Client Execution

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 0.7009

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 http://pilgrimland.com/sites/default/files/webform/resume-uploads/mikax.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://www.pacificsportfraservalley.com/sites/default/files/webform/zajufofagobixipisuna.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.mothercare.ro/sites/default/files/webform/resumes/49428740932.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.mothercare.ro/sites/default/files/webform/resumes/xigidaz.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.grotekeukens.be/sites/default/files/webform/gmawards2018/87706268510.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.sumnercountyhospital.org/sites/default/files/webform/sixativitav.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ambrose.edu/sites/default/files/webform/sudelo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.muttypawsacademy.com/sites/default/files/webform/vaccines/ranet.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.uts.cw/sites/default/files/webform/suvexaxobufakup.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://vectorcorp.net/sites/default/files/webform/resume/dofivefodazewinewes.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.guninetwork.org/system/files/webform/heirri_proposals/nuxikovevevugodir.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/1eyvgo/aqOO/~3/YTWXjIUwRh0/uplcv?utm_term=the+importance+of+being+earnest+summary+act+1PDF link annotation
    • https://www.vub.be/sites/vub/files/webform/lijulur.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.vub.be/sites/vub/files/webform/pagilavamuvawasaxega.pdfIn PDF document text