Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 c2afd5b504ee27d1…

MALICIOUS

PDF

54.6 KB Created: 2021-04-18 00:10:20 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7) First seen: 2021-09-24
MD5: 580ca8ccbcb8a8b523de7d62e89fbb28 SHA-1: 617200efc27a331db09e9968987a3918d5961d89 SHA-256: c2afd5b504ee27d1f5a582e692dbee6677ae5c7b64683f9a81ac09e99827c32a
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 0.6810

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.sumnercountyhospital.org/sites/default/files/webform/vetasitumuwogemukuruv.pdf In PDF document text
    • https://grossenbacher.co.nz/en/system/files/avoidance-training-certificates/tatemomolefifepa.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.sumnercountyhospital.org/sites/default/files/webform/zupusozuxabodes.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.newburghgroup.com/sites/default/files/webform/resumes/41319995155.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.enwidth.com/sites/default/files/webform/resumes/95374483905.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.friendlycc.com/sites/default/files/webform/tojatovovezugunubi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ambrose.edu/sites/default/files/webform/21691652676.pdfIn 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://www.grotekeukens.be/sites/default/files/webform/gmawards2018/41850888982.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Uplcv/~3/GLLx1DTH0VQ/uplcv?utm_term=are+there+any+jack+reacher+movies+on+netflixPDF link annotation
    • https://www.healthdata.org/sites/default/files/resumes/18848190838.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://thesanfordschool.asu.edu/sites/default/files/webform/99818817157.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://drones.princeton.edu/system/files/webform/61493424170.pdfIn PDF document text