Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 b0cd77f9d8aaa207…

MALICIOUS

PDF

57.4 KB Created: 2021-04-24 14:00:50 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7) First seen: 2021-09-25
MD5: 077b1af41729fd94c39d618f743e3409 SHA-1: 2a3a83f6cccf162448fc0e5180629a448fb56f68 SHA-256: b0cd77f9d8aaa207ba87d97ea687531fc58e164df4e891c4140008d77af91391
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 0.6277

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://www.clinicasfantamaria.ro/sites/default/files/webform/33767122539.pdf In PDF document text
    • https://www.osgeurope.com/sites/osg-corporate.dev/files/webform/nutuzisujobipusife.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://portal-mysigma.com/system/files/student-proof/wofofokarawivuboniju.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.jwico.com/sites/default/files/webform/66271497470.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ambrose.edu/sites/default/files/webform/71048230710.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.newburghgroup.com/sites/default/files/webform/resumes/tikijoti.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://russian-ice-spb.ru/sites/default/files/webform/files/loxigexaxezirizedud.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://cicatsalud.com/html/sites/default/files/webform/jowodudarazobipadumalo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ambrose.edu/sites/default/files/webform/65047245793.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.dgs-interparts.be/sites/default/files/muvok.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Uplcv/~3/zMnd8XtcwSM/uplcv?utm_term=understanding+the+borderline+mother+pdfPDF link annotation
    • https://www.vub.be/sites/vub/files/webform/ludazerubadariwevulefaxu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.healthdata.org/sites/default/files/resumes/mevupuxapiledowitire.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://campusrec.princeton.edu/system/files/webform/7624886728.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.vub.be/sites/vub/files/webform/43319512550.pdfIn PDF document text