Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 4d83ece5a936e35b…

MALICIOUS

PDF

63.5 KB Created: 2021-04-09 13:30:52 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7) First seen: 2021-09-16
MD5: 16332b91fdb7d256890835bbc1bda2b3 SHA-1: 8ea7416fb9e3922d121ca4c50498ee48b8502858 SHA-256: 4d83ece5a936e35b4468d009b383c137d70c4879a0b38fe355ba581035c9f187
124 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment T1204.002 Malicious Link

The PDF contains numerous links to various domains, identified as a link farm. The heuristic 'PDF_SEO_DISPOSABLE_LINK_FARM' indicates a high likelihood of malicious intent, possibly for phishing or distributing further malware. ClamAV also detected this file as 'Pdf.Phishing.Trojan'. The ML classifier also flagged it as malicious.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.6737

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.mothercare.ro/sites/default/files/webform/resumes/77861868930.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://cicatsalud.com/html/sites/default/files/webform/dozigax.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.blplegal.com/sites/default/files/webform/80507347088.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.jsif.org/sites/default/files/webform/vinuriruxelapaviwona.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.guninetwork.org/system/files/webform/heirri_proposals/dagen.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.friendlycc.com/sites/default/files/webform/kilolegejesap.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.enwidth.com/sites/default/files/webform/resumes/sojinikud.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.enwidth.com/sites/default/files/webform/resumes/ralivowu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ambrose.edu/sites/default/files/webform/28695523124.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=tableau+centaine+dizaine+unit%25C3%25A9PDF link annotation
    • https://community.princeton.edu/system/files/webform/xakefabobadu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://scripts.sil.org/OFLIn PDF document text

Extracted artifacts 2

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
font_00_sfnt_off0000be7e.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xBE7E 4940 bytes
SHA-256: b2a865f4fa0e9f1d320ad5aa8ecf66d270c5b7eb61c1ddef571521e13d4a3ae1
font_01_sfnt_off0000cf16.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xCF16 11536 bytes
SHA-256: a16d3bdb810b772e5ba2e090651ee27f2859ac9d14363dc1fbdeb6f5df5aa2cb