Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 b370c344a5556e9b…

MALICIOUS

PDF

63.5 KB Created: 2021-04-11 16:09:54 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7) First seen: 2021-10-27
MD5: 57073e20b31923a56fb21c87bbee7cb6 SHA-1: d8904fbd44e0c2998852e186f3d9d7874fab3bfd SHA-256: b370c344a5556e9b029fdf194609cb80ee23b52298495bf84772717b13c04d2e
124 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF file was flagged by a machine learning classifier and ClamAV as malicious, specifically as a phishing trojan. It contains numerous embedded URLs, many of which point to disposable domains and are structured as link farms, suggesting an attempt to obscure the true destination or to distribute a payload. The document body, though heavily obfuscated, appears to be a lure disguised as a worksheet.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9958

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 http://oaklandchildcare.org/sites/default/files/webform/80411930416.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://www.friendlycc.com/sites/default/files/webform/zuguxinukebezukul.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ambrose.edu/sites/default/files/webform/54125375098.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.grotekeukens.be/sites/default/files/webform/gmawards2018/98751459569.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.guninetwork.org/system/files/webform/heirri_proposals/74543186253.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://oaklandchildcare.org/sites/default/files/webform/wafawujozovu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.jsif.org/sites/default/files/webform/54250685962.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://cicatsalud.com/html/sites/default/files/webform/21030689395.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ambrose.edu/sites/default/files/webform/natogaj.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ambrose.edu/sites/default/files/webform/61391242106.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://cicatsalud.com/html/sites/default/files/webform/mulakipezumaxusilexuvu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.muttypawsacademy.com/sites/default/files/webform/vaccines/lomaxitafuvutatu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.osgeurope.com/sites/osg-corporate.dev/files/webform/3563422068.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://extranet.blanchisserie-toulousaine-de-sante.com/sites/extranet.blanchisserie-toulousaine-de-sante.com/files/documents/justificatifs/ratasivovo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://aboss.by/sites/default/files/webform/12132802610.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://cicatsalud.com/html/sites/default/files/webform/sidetarebuw.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/cv9VXjIrmdE/uplcv?utm_term=core+belief+worksheetPDF link annotation
    • https://ubmemeaensoprod.s3.amazonaws.com/ifsec_international/call_for_papers/2021/03/37488496184.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_off0000de30.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xDE30 4844 bytes
SHA-256: 3d4423ad5209d7d64fcc90c1beb2b50b197d01423f41e4bd31727a9959ecb0b6