Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 b612219e40e90e83…

MALICIOUS

PDF

53.8 KB Created: 2021-04-08 15:31:11 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7) First seen: 2021-06-20
MD5: d24bc8c17a2c113fea86ea1bb073e04b SHA-1: ce823c3f21a891699b640e3020fc99ee3f29e0ff SHA-256: b612219e40e90e8363edfa4ef4d4ff8754dccc971a8ca84470f75d9ab815bcd8
124 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

The file was detected as a malicious PDF by ClamAV and an ML classifier, indicating a high likelihood of malicious intent. Heuristics identified it as a link farm on disposable hosting, suggesting a phishing or redirection scheme. The presence of numerous embedded URLs, some pointing to potentially compromised or malicious sites, further supports this assessment. The document body contains garbled text, indicating it is not intended for human consumption and likely serves as a container for malicious content or redirects.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.7164

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.dgs-interparts.be/sites/default/files/xufatonapa.pdf In PDF document text
    • https://www.osgeurope.com/sites/osg-corporate.dev/files/webform/nutuzisujobipusife.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://oaklandchildcare.org/sites/default/files/webform/80411930416.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://klm3fg.grhosting.cz/sites/default/files/webform/files/wajuso.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.ofalloncasting.com/sites/default/files/webform/68138040624.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://natsihwa.org.au/sites/default/files/webform/mufuwujaxerafesa.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.termis.org/system/files/webform/vomijalikuwukilowerosi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.uts.cw/sites/default/files/webform/96040264728.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.ofalloncasting.com/sites/default/files/webform/zuloliresu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ambrose.edu/sites/default/files/webform/9979090083.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.osgeurope.com/sites/osg-corporate.dev/files/webform/19824824677.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/1eyvgo/aqOO/~3/ngfLrbzwjls/uplcv?utm_term=bendera+negara+di+dunia+pdfPDF link annotation
    • https://printandmail.princeton.edu/system/files/webform/68272747422.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://campusrec.princeton.edu/system/files/webform/47045932069.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://minorsoncampus.princeton.edu/system/files/webform/45540448673.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.ice.cam.ac.uk/sites/www.ice.cam.ac.uk/files/webform/50075528518.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.vub.be/sites/vub/files/webform/gegisikirusesikogibo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://gradfutures.princeton.edu/system/files/webform/ninavixokamorul.pdfIn PDF document text