Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 984151528d2332fd…

MALICIOUS

PDF

58.4 KB Created: 2021-04-11 02:37:00 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7) First seen: 2021-09-14
MD5: 1487f59d2cf639a543c22691903e7b9a SHA-1: ad4988b5539f2c765f42035995a75f95a5ac6970 SHA-256: 984151528d2332fddc1b28d62e5ed80fb9a086cef1f739d26decc0f9aa613f6c
154 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF file was flagged by multiple heuristics, including ClamAV and an ML classifier, indicating malicious intent. It contains a large number of external links, suggesting a link farm or phishing attempt. While no scripts were explicitly extracted, the PDF structure and embedded URIs point towards techniques used to redirect users to potentially harmful content.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9637

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 contains mass external PDF link farm critical PDF_SEO_LINK_FARM
    Small PDF contains many clickable external PDF links, mostly clustered on one host. This matches generated SEO/link-farm PDF carriers used to route users into malicious or unwanted-software delivery chains, rather than a normal document citation pattern.
  • 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://natsihwa.org.au/sites/default/files/webform/degajakuko.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://cicatsalud.com/html/sites/default/files/webform/604022749.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ambrose.edu/sites/default/files/webform/61928937085.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.muttypawsacademy.com/sites/default/files/webform/vaccines/37570077738.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ambrose.edu/sites/default/files/webform/21691652676.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.a1touchsolution.nl/sites/default/files/26511902049.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ambrose.edu/sites/default/files/webform/58588935603.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ambrose.edu/sites/default/files/webform/natogaj.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://grossenbacher.co.nz/en/system/files/avoidance-training-certificates/13471650610.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://europa-ts.ru/sites/default/files/webform/81905598419.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.newburghgroup.com/sites/default/files/webform/resumes/falaburisidibiwad.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/LPIa9PGmDLg/uplcv?utm_term=ali+%25C5%259Feriati+kitaplar%25C4%25B1PDF link annotation
    • https://ec.europa.eu/eip/agriculture/sites/default/files/webform/5272012193.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.ice.cam.ac.uk/sites/www.ice.cam.ac.uk/files/webform/wosevojowavinojefe.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.healthdata.org/sites/default/files/resumes/58023923203.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://thesanfordschool.asu.edu/sites/default/files/webform/85266863194.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.healthdata.org/sites/default/files/resumes/sametuzovu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ubmemeaensoprod.s3.amazonaws.com/ifsec_international/call_for_papers/2021/03/52983615418.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_off0000ccd1.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xCCD1 4968 bytes
SHA-256: 036344d07e0fb598352331ea2b1a6f6468d7df976ff9e0ebe073f33dbf3f0599