Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 a243ab90ade81ab7…

MALICIOUS

PDF

57.1 KB Created: 2021-04-12 00:50:33 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7) First seen: 2021-09-23
MD5: 7f044e295e288915b9a1e33c70658cd6 SHA-1: 5763a52b88f90dc6ff7a98ffb8e9f0837d9b534e SHA-256: a243ab90ade81ab7ce162f501c74db76fbc3d803fa52af0108ea8d6ddb4120b0
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 0.9630

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 https://www.natsihwa.org.au/sites/default/files/webform/lavajaruzapelusudixavu.pdf In PDF document text
    • https://www.ofalloncasting.com/sites/default/files/webform/68406293253.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://klm3fg.grhosting.cz/sites/default/files/webform/files/40110328039.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ambrose.edu/sites/default/files/webform/bunovodedodasu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ambrose.edu/sites/default/files/webform/20598750849.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ambrose.edu/sites/default/files/webform/talizovub.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://aboss.by/sites/default/files/webform/pibodanagulevegomenet.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://aboss.by/sites/default/files/webform/12132802610.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.enwidth.com/sites/default/files/webform/resumes/ziwisotug.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://spotlight-sites.com/sites/default/files/webform/40861703051.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/fzgW7-mxBc0/uplcv?utm_term=leyendas+mexicanas+cortas+pdfPDF link annotation
    • https://thesanfordschool.asu.edu/sites/default/files/webform/lezedatabamivija.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://thesanfordschool.asu.edu/sites/default/files/webform/20850651402.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ec.europa.eu/eip/agriculture/sites/default/files/webform/5272012193.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://campusrec.princeton.edu/system/files/webform/wawojamifot.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ec.europa.eu/eip/agriculture/sites/default/files/webform/juvuwudonuvusenovirem.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://printandmail.princeton.edu/system/files/webform/fasulegok.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_off0000c95e.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xC95E 5380 bytes
SHA-256: eca716d63efa23d2176e97be7076112330f363954ddd7b1d572be2d55e966c7f