Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 b78a304237fce901…

MALICIOUS

PDF

66.5 KB Created: 2021-04-20 07:35:28 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7) First seen: 2021-10-04
MD5: 3b09973826ef7f6bf368b943c2ce1c9a SHA-1: f2d402012890aaffd42a9dc7cc1e2dd2f8eaac2d SHA-256: b78a304237fce9013c91e7d9d24d9997363cc8d6ca54a0a3a38e8fb9ee0f5548
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 0.8544

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.friendlycc.com/sites/default/files/webform/zuguxinukebezukul.pdf In PDF document text
    • https://www.visitsavannah.com/sites/default/files/webform/59391310887.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://russian-ice-spb.ru/sites/default/files/webform/files/97818084314.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.birdlifebotswana.org.bw/sites/default/files/webform/sightings-sketches/lewuxevibonotokezesa.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://spotlight-sites.com/sites/default/files/webform/sugugijokasu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ambrose.edu/sites/default/files/webform/ginigiwosumomigari.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ambrose.edu/sites/default/files/webform/61391242106.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/skout/mBVl/~3/S30rS-6n6vg/uplcv?utm_term=how+to+make+a+suspension+bridge+with+popsicle+sticksPDF link annotation
    • https://community.princeton.edu/system/files/webform/putirufulexuxibo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://campusrec.princeton.edu/system/files/webform/popikinof.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.ice.cam.ac.uk/sites/www.ice.cam.ac.uk/files/webform/8342566550.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_off0000efa4.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xEFA4 5744 bytes
SHA-256: 5c9295bbe0e94af33d5209dbdb4c5c925a17b9cae8521c9b54da04499e74490a

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