Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 63738dcc00029448…

MALICIOUS

PDF

51.6 KB Created: 2021-04-15 07:28:45 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7) First seen: 2021-09-24
MD5: e7d7757beaea7e9349c835f1d693d729 SHA-1: aa0012002aafa6ae85874fbea86568a8fb0c1c60 SHA-256: 63738dcc000294483165682732ce2cdab0f092b983ec29b73218af7e7f659909
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 0.9443

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 https://ambrose.edu/sites/default/files/webform/juremetepatofuf.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://portal-mysigma.com/system/files/student-proof/woximinel.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.pharoxglobal.com/sites/default/files/webform/6669476875.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.telluridescience.org/sites/default/files/tstc-applications/nuwirofu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://architecturaldesigninc.com/sites/default/files/72694480293.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://portal-mysigma.com/system/files/student-proof/pifudolaloxafedotodela.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://cicatsalud.com/html/sites/default/files/webform/dozigax.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.mothercare.ro/sites/default/files/webform/resumes/susumijifiwef.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.visitsavannah.com/sites/default/files/webform/fukixuliwidopisoduzurapi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.viachristi.org/sites/default/files/webform/89070061484.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.natsihwa.org.au/sites/default/files/webform/tuwagamutavuvefofufeniz.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/skout/mBVl/~3/BvfzZFkJO3s/uplcv?utm_term=what+makes+a+silver+dapple+dachshund+puppyPDF link annotation
    • https://printandmail.princeton.edu/system/files/webform/60959229638.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://campusrec.princeton.edu/system/files/webform/jelozubunumi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://community.princeton.edu/system/files/webform/boranewibutafale.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://printandmail.princeton.edu/system/files/webform/83605599331.pdfIn PDF document text