Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 6860597083de0abd…

MALICIOUS

PDF

63.7 KB Created: 2021-04-27 02:38:48 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7) First seen: 2021-09-22
MD5: 25ef03782870566b4ee56bcc8b3d4e2f SHA-1: e700c8f603d7f2ac1e4920d78e7be5886a293f77 SHA-256: 6860597083de0abd0219b199adc108b09021701345b1dc9e4e3dc32857a9766c
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 0.8201

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://cicatsalud.com/html/sites/default/files/webform/25507329945.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://www.guninetwork.org/system/files/webform/heirri_proposals/80098342864.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.pbttphtk.gov.my/sites/default/files/webform/42283273604.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://grossenbacher.co.nz/en/system/files/avoidance-training-certificates/34782296767.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.birdlifebotswana.org.bw/sites/default/files/webform/sightings-sketches/beporu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ambrose.edu/sites/default/files/webform/fulakosilukubusovugatupus.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://vectorcorp.net/sites/default/files/webform/resume/92207600326.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ambrose.edu/sites/default/files/webform/59680287402.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.afscme65.org/system/files/webform/52844377902.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ambrose.edu/sites/default/files/webform/20598750849.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=what+do+the+boxes+below+the+three+branches+of+government+representPDF link annotation
    • https://lib.asu.edu/system/files/webform/61431168480.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://drones.princeton.edu/system/files/webform/janewif.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.ice.cam.ac.uk/sites/www.ice.cam.ac.uk/files/webform/17420147243.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://community.princeton.edu/system/files/webform/64301273598.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_off0000d730.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xD730 5940 bytes
SHA-256: 4cbb15ae57f6380d28a1ecc8f64343c3f5a920443b8e32145228802548ccc19d