Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 763e8effead49604…

MALICIOUS

PDF

47.6 KB Created: 2021-04-18 16:24:00 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7) First seen: 2021-10-11
MD5: 82f01e64b033e548a2730f1e527f88b9 SHA-1: 3a8df7940a124c1f66fa5a2afe028c1dbbf68b87 SHA-256: 763e8effead4960440beee6b6a505d274cc5124bee2458cc929b67cf08bcac5e
124 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

The PDF file was detected as malicious by ML classifiers and ClamAV, indicating a high likelihood of malicious intent. The document body, though heavily obfuscated, contains references to a movie trailer, suggesting a lure to disguise malicious links. Several external URIs were extracted, some pointing to potentially benign sites, but others to unknown domains, which could host malicious content or phishing pages.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9628

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.termis.org/system/files/webform/vomijalikuwukilowerosi.pdf In PDF document text
    • https://ambrose.edu/sites/default/files/webform/49323480199.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ambrose.edu/sites/default/files/webform/fulakosilukubusovugatupus.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://klm3fg.grhosting.cz/sites/default/files/webform/files/zavemazawutojene.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.osgeurope.com/sites/osg-corporate.dev/files/webform/7486912807.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.pharoxglobal.com/sites/default/files/webform/27804174203.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.birdlifebotswana.org.bw/sites/default/files/webform/sightings-sketches/43600748611.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://spotlight-sites.com/sites/default/files/webform/jalipoxelelikepobolid.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.blplegal.com/sites/default/files/webform/pifijolaj.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Uplcv/~3/YTWXjIUwRh0/uplcv?utm_term=one+night+at+the+call+center+movie+trailerPDF link annotation
    • https://printandmail.princeton.edu/system/files/webform/zupedofijemurak.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.vub.be/sites/vub/files/webform/ludazerubadariwevulefaxu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.healthdata.org/sites/default/files/resumes/fanonexujezurexuli.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://lib.asu.edu/system/files/webform/53252105934.pdfIn PDF document text