Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 54121589d15e497d…

MALICIOUS

PDF

65.8 KB Created: 2021-04-19 09:09:49 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7) First seen: 2021-09-18
MD5: 596402045839f78188d712f5e9e1a07f SHA-1: c1a702856e9b33479e1ab2a1202f2f8e7e923ade SHA-256: 54121589d15e497d3252225b8869a3031befc3dc9f60f39d60637cc5f6cbd9bb
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 0.6640

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.ofalloncasting.com/sites/default/files/webform/34904816646.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://cicatsalud.com/html/sites/default/files/webform/buvonajevomowetizebijix.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.mothercare.ro/sites/default/files/webform/resumes/28941778760.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.newburghgroup.com/sites/default/files/webform/resumes/mogewewe.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.guninetwork.org/system/files/webform/heirri_proposals/zarogoluvesiriwameb.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://vectorcorp.net/sites/default/files/webform/resume/tefofavokalozigukar.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.pacificsportfraservalley.com/sites/default/files/webform/newusagolepilukakatukus.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.dgs-interparts.be/sites/default/files/jinez.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://extranet.blanchisserie-toulousaine-de-sante.com/sites/extranet.blanchisserie-toulousaine-de-sante.com/files/documents/justificatifs/niroxopewesanusogub.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/BkSY9tpko7c/uplcv?utm_term=the+way+of+the+superior+man+audiobook+downloadPDF link annotation
    • https://www.healthdata.org/sites/default/files/resumes/sutuzosugogaw.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ubmemeaensoprod.s3.amazonaws.com/ifsec_international/call_for_papers/2021/03/1901815882.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_off0000ce42.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xCE42 5512 bytes
SHA-256: d7114cfc264c1a24e7f64774589f220a7ec79928f20277e442498c04c4a93840
font_01_sfnt_off0000e0f0.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xE0F0 11140 bytes
SHA-256: 3a1df82be4eabd99deddaf1ae7f5fd26725246179c43f0a5346e2faffd091a71