Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 be71bb6595fde024…

MALICIOUS

PDF

71.1 KB Created: 2021-04-10 20:07:16 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7) First seen: 2021-09-18
MD5: 95f25f13fdcb3d65c501e1e7692c3a99 SHA-1: 8bd372383b71d32365dbc9552a11fd68b2c06638 SHA-256: be71bb6595fde02451e915b9f537de2c5928cfff9c051cb9e4e16876b4dd129f
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 0.8402

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.natsihwa.org.au/sites/default/files/webform/72917344941.pdf In PDF document text
    • https://www.natsihwa.org.au/sites/default/files/webform/86947183128.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ambrose.edu/sites/default/files/webform/futexapepunuvanujom.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://klm3fg.grhosting.cz/sites/default/files/webform/files/wajuso.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.jwico.com/sites/default/files/webform/pagijan.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.ofalloncasting.com/sites/default/files/webform/nunemoxajusadokuxilebe.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://oaklandchildcare.org/sites/default/files/webform/71502920023.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.uts.cw/sites/default/files/webform/58994315224.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://spotlight-sites.com/sites/default/files/webform/jalipoxelelikepobolid.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ambrose.edu/sites/default/files/webform/juremetepatofuf.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/GLLx1DTH0VQ/uplcv?utm_term=epic+game+launcher+resume+downloadPDF link annotation
    • https://gradfutures.princeton.edu/system/files/webform/ninavixokamorul.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ec.europa.eu/eip/agriculture/sites/default/files/webform/zuwamusijugowop.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://scripts.sil.org/OFLIn PDF document text

Extracted artifacts 2

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
font_00_sfnt_off0000ebd6.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xEBD6 5336 bytes
SHA-256: 85192612b05bde21af3094188c6d1f49931f179ab958bba4dad353917ef0feb5
font_01_sfnt_off0000fdd1.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xFDD1 10988 bytes
SHA-256: 3226058275ed7c05de40b89808f43dc73f70bc41484ac80337085e4d411a410b