Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 ac78912af4efea78…

MALICIOUS

PDF

70.7 KB Created: 2021-04-24 03:28:26 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7) First seen: 2021-09-14
MD5: ba9e91e4649d138f23f0bd33eed8733b SHA-1: 1d3f0c75b1e62f377b52283bd065aa6b7c46c912 SHA-256: ac78912af4efea78b00cd139cf91104ea6e633ee9962a80629756eb0025b6c34
124 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF contains numerous embedded URLs, many of which are hosted on potentially disposable domains, indicating a link farm or phishing attempt. The ML classifier and ClamAV detection strongly suggest malicious intent. Although no scripts were explicitly extracted, the PDF structure and embedded URLs are indicative of a phishing or malware distribution lure, likely leveraging embedded JavaScript for malicious actions.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.8334

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.guninetwork.org/system/files/webform/heirri_proposals/80098342864.pdf In PDF document text
    • https://ambrose.edu/sites/default/files/webform/11364316539.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://klm3fg.grhosting.cz/sites/default/files/webform/files/30253637425.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://klm3fg.grhosting.cz/sites/default/files/webform/files/zavemazawutojene.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://cicatsalud.com/html/sites/default/files/webform/buvonajevomowetizebijix.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.jwico.com/sites/default/files/webform/66271497470.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.dgs-interparts.be/sites/default/files/7838369457.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.friendlycc.com/sites/default/files/webform/74296331991.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://russian-ice-spb.ru/sites/default/files/webform/files/97818084314.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.dgs-interparts.be/sites/default/files/55949953827.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.osgeurope.com/sites/osg-corporate.dev/files/webform/tajiwugebewozebukak.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.afscme65.org/system/files/webform/baxuwobokorexifiri.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://extranet.blanchisserie-toulousaine-de-sante.com/sites/extranet.blanchisserie-toulousaine-de-sante.com/files/documents/justificatifs/6659556688.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/GLLx1DTH0VQ/uplcv?utm_term=como+orar+en+guerra+espiritualPDF link annotation
    • https://minorsoncampus.princeton.edu/system/files/webform/27732669772.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.vub.be/sites/vub/files/webform/pagilavamuvawasaxega.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://umatter.princeton.edu/system/files/webform/requests/72435273025.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_off00010d1b.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x10D1B 5044 bytes
SHA-256: f9041449b3a0826686aa107094f0ad73f1a574bd54860573d9fddf761e2da75f