Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 9289bd4235eefc9a…

MALICIOUS

PDF

80.0 KB Created: 2021-04-11 01:33:52 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7) First seen: 2021-09-25
MD5: 7915ba52788ad590ee9be85c7d0c5fb7 SHA-1: 9add1974928f0142210630e3646feed12fda1bb4 SHA-256: 9289bd4235eefc9a49790ad27a6493c73d9b567c12725a5f32fba3b122fef44b
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 0.8485

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/42416127327.pdf In PDF document text
    • https://www.natsihwa.org.au/sites/default/files/webform/dalobasowi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.pacificsportfraservalley.com/sites/default/files/webform/pulipalukegibivep.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.friendlycc.com/sites/default/files/webform/topevonizudurazot.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://natsihwa.org.au/sites/default/files/webform/46250275999.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://portal-mysigma.com/system/files/student-proof/woximinel.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://klm3fg.grhosting.cz/sites/default/files/webform/files/tekuxegejarikuferibo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://portal-mysigma.com/system/files/student-proof/41429692510.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://extranet.blanchisserie-toulousaine-de-sante.com/sites/extranet.blanchisserie-toulousaine-de-sante.com/files/documents/justificatifs/pefusoxewirevujilo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.mothercare.ro/sites/default/files/webform/resumes/sojivezogi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://natsihwa.org.au/sites/default/files/webform/mufuwujaxerafesa.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://vectorcorp.net/sites/default/files/webform/resume/sabaw.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/Uplcv/~3/ngfLrbzwjls/uplcv?utm_term=peacekeeper+guide+for+honor+redditPDF link annotation
    • https://www.healthdata.org/sites/default/files/resumes/mevupuxapiledowitire.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.healthdata.org/sites/default/files/resumes/muvebijamalixodimobowase.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://gradfutures.princeton.edu/system/files/webform/25860956451.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://scripts.sil.org/OFLIn PDF document text
    • https://savannah.gnu.org/projects/freefont/In PDF document text
    • http://www.gnu.org/licenses/In PDF document text
    • http://www.gnu.org/copyleft/gpl.htmlIn PDF document text

Extracted artifacts 3

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
font_00_sfnt_off0000e820.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xE820 5272 bytes
SHA-256: f08e8ec20de4ef605938aea550701f604849560e1ffeaa6c3d3d465950a30857
font_01_sfnt_off0000f9d0.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF9D0 6180 bytes
SHA-256: 0dc18225ac40ab467119378fc7278664f88a914d173656f2edefaed335bb59d5
font_02_sfnt_off000108c4.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x108C4 12552 bytes
SHA-256: ad76115b7db1302ed852870b8c9b13a4ba0a108c83bd03f71f9855da47c73ab6