Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 9f6e2735e8acb559…

MALICIOUS

PDF

65.3 KB Created: 2021-04-16 05:04:07 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7) First seen: 2021-09-15
MD5: 3193c305e37a9db7b5bba33230057243 SHA-1: f1a2b6f77d4d59dd3aaed83f8c6624822059c52e SHA-256: 9f6e2735e8acb559af10ffa71d5dbf804a348891006e7117e35edd1f59407597
124 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The file is identified as malicious by ML classifiers and ClamAV, indicating a high likelihood of malicious intent. The PDF contains numerous embedded URLs, many of which point to potentially compromised or malicious domains, suggesting a phishing or malware distribution scheme. The heuristic PDF_SEO_DISPOSABLE_LINK_FARM further supports this by indicating the PDF is part of a link farm on disposable hosting.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9507

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.pacificsportfraservalley.com/sites/default/files/webform/joxelivoresilawefuxeli.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://portal-mysigma.com/system/files/student-proof/wofofokarawivuboniju.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://grossenbacher.co.nz/en/system/files/avoidance-training-certificates/95133977644.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ambrose.edu/sites/default/files/webform/11364316539.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.blplegal.com/sites/default/files/webform/89971565628.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ambrose.edu/sites/default/files/webform/zateguzafafidefezibexe.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://aboss.by/sites/default/files/webform/8474239295.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ambrose.edu/sites/default/files/webform/bunovodedodasu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.natsihwa.org.au/sites/default/files/webform/zolevijovexoneda.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ambrose.edu/sites/default/files/webform/59680287402.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/YTWXjIUwRh0/uplcv?utm_term=a+brief+history+of+the+romans+boatwright+pdfPDF link annotation
    • https://minorsoncampus.princeton.edu/system/files/webform/tuvoluxasivawujunaz.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://scripts.sil.org/OFLIn PDF document text

Extracted artifacts 2

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
font_00_sfnt_off0000cf91.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xCF91 5536 bytes
SHA-256: 8376e34e2a63f0bb06613fc98fc3c999ed08188dcacef2c18c2955d94509d420
font_01_sfnt_off0000e249.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xE249 10516 bytes
SHA-256: 062c0d3e435aba681a6217c08df252c56928ca7262f68b2238195d8b54d0d09e