Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 77b9fcd5923556ff…

MALICIOUS

PDF

64.0 KB Created: 2021-04-12 11:36:21 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7) First seen: 2021-09-22
MD5: 0ead45432fc93da4a376f0a323f54e9e SHA-1: 149d6b9ff388ba1ca528aaed92925d61c365dbbd SHA-256: 77b9fcd5923556ff93c1785a6234b14173ccb3c897b9dadd1ccaa04d71e3105b
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 0.8630

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://www.osgeurope.com/sites/osg-corporate.dev/files/webform/80982398497.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://www.birdlifebotswana.org.bw/sites/default/files/webform/sightings-sketches/fipeforivu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://aboss.by/sites/default/files/webform/12404161593.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.uts.cw/sites/default/files/webform/89737617204.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.natsihwa.org.au/sites/default/files/webform/25680057182.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ambrose.edu/sites/default/files/webform/sovurusogizafubeb.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.guninetwork.org/system/files/webform/heirri_proposals/44437875789.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://europa-ts.ru/sites/default/files/webform/totikejeropisatuzubafaba.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.dgs-interparts.be/sites/default/files/jinez.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.guninetwork.org/system/files/webform/heirri_proposals/74543186253.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://cicatsalud.com/html/sites/default/files/webform/59286961246.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.osgeurope.com/sites/osg-corporate.dev/files/webform/14219433733.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.jwico.com/sites/default/files/webform/41164207556.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ambrose.edu/sites/default/files/webform/padubomi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.mainephilanthropy.org/sites/default/files/49101071505.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/1eyvgo/aqOO/~3/1KS0DP0cxss/uplcv?utm_term=exercices+droites+parall%25C3%25A8les+et+perpendiculaires+cm1PDF link annotation
    • https://campusrec.princeton.edu/system/files/webform/18758627140.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://gradfutures.princeton.edu/system/files/webform/49692556615.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_off0000d7b5.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xD7B5 5436 bytes
SHA-256: 52ffa749ebc412b1f8614e7def42306c198d42f5bc6e3779bab1beb17d66fd88