Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 7c963c30a8438591…

MALICIOUS

PDF

59.7 KB Created: 2021-04-16 06:25:51 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7)
MD5: b9979db8f90c88307aead94c1d1dd371 SHA-1: 4370f36cddf7da45b8cca73974c1d6a0240bb8cb SHA-256: 7c963c30a8438591e9550ad6581777ab317dc758a179d6e6fd08ce8219792564
124 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment T1059.007 JavaScript

The PDF contains multiple embedded URLs, with one heuristic specifically flagging it as a link farm on disposable hosting. The ClamAV detection and ML classifier indicate malicious intent, likely related to phishing or malware delivery. Although no scripts were explicitly extracted, the PDF structure and embedded links suggest an attempt to redirect the user to a malicious site.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.7704

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 http://www.sumnercountyhospital.org/sites/default/files/webform/72664382884.pdf In PDF document text
    • https://www.osgeurope.com/sites/osg-corporate.dev/files/webform/tafunowusovuna.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.grotekeukens.be/sites/default/files/webform/gmawards2018/jebumimebugamoto.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.uts.cw/sites/default/files/webform/50818196885.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.enwidth.com/sites/default/files/webform/resumes/48862039041.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/Om9ozkHLxGw/uplcv?utm_term=el+mundo+de+sofia+completa+en+espa%25C3%25B1olPDF link annotation
    • https://www.healthdata.org/sites/default/files/resumes/mevupuxapiledowitire.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.healthdata.org/sites/default/files/resumes/68382108709.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://lib.asu.edu/system/files/webform/simadovi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://minorsoncampus.princeton.edu/system/files/webform/wetesagepe.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.ice.cam.ac.uk/sites/www.ice.cam.ac.uk/files/webform/68876097481.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://community.princeton.edu/system/files/webform/64301273598.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://printandmail.princeton.edu/system/files/webform/83401752781.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_off0000d688.bin
63b43224e5539c8976e9b3baf34e7a0a4ea8cf519af5f6a00fb0bc68cc1a88cc
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xD688 5256 bytes