Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 b63d3439ef24b9eb…

MALICIOUS

PDF

60.8 KB Created: 2021-04-11 02:36:55 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7) First seen: 2021-09-25
MD5: fc7885e096294e3aaa1933eb0ec3401d SHA-1: c154e3c5595080ccde72fbaf24deff60d253937d SHA-256: b63d3439ef24b9eba5785f810d3c7266cc30b64905858c4e740393f6a18a0fcd
124 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment T1203 Exploitation for Client Execution

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 0.7310

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.telluridescience.org/sites/default/files/tstc-applications/30232074114.pdf In PDF document text
    • https://www.a1touchsolution.nl/sites/default/files/26511902049.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://spotlight-sites.com/sites/default/files/webform/40861703051.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.grotekeukens.be/sites/default/files/webform/gmawards2018/dufadurelabakugozuku.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://russian-ice-spb.ru/sites/default/files/webform/files/69309865186.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://architecturaldesigninc.com/sites/default/files/sujuxot.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://architecturaldesigninc.com/sites/default/files/72694480293.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Uplcv/~3/PmAiG5ZyT-k/uplcv?utm_term=nest+m+schoolPDF link annotation
    • https://www.healthdata.org/sites/default/files/resumes/sutuzosugogaw.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://lib.asu.edu/system/files/webform/liwubuwivak.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.ice.cam.ac.uk/sites/www.ice.cam.ac.uk/files/webform/10713621665.pdfIn PDF document text