Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 c358df059b7ab6f7…

MALICIOUS

PDF

64.6 KB Created: 2021-04-27 09:48:46 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7) First seen: 2021-09-23
MD5: 9ab7030ccee4d933151d563f860477db SHA-1: bc277595883fd61e87168b928cbb95221367df15 SHA-256: c358df059b7ab6f769c4fc5fa1047a3bf84f8cd2f2887f42fdecb7920337ea53
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 0.8289

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://spotlight-sites.com/sites/default/files/webform/jalipoxelelikepobolid.pdf In PDF document text
    • https://www.enwidth.com/sites/default/files/webform/resumes/90018929780.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.jts.org.jo/sites/default/files/webform/1653940235.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://cicatsalud.com/html/sites/default/files/webform/25507329945.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://klm3fg.grhosting.cz/sites/default/files/webform/files/78191676466.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://europa-ts.ru/sites/default/files/webform/sujeludepotunebimetoravij.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://pilgrimland.com/sites/default/files/webform/resume-uploads/61975266633.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/~3/6naE_Nh8_CY/uplcv?utm_term=what+are+the+scrabble+rulesPDF link annotation
    • https://www.ice.cam.ac.uk/sites/www.ice.cam.ac.uk/files/webform/10713621665.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.healthdata.org/sites/default/files/resumes/18848190838.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ec.europa.eu/eip/agriculture/sites/default/files/webform/95830943344.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://lib.asu.edu/system/files/webform/vabomabexajamoja.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://minorsoncampus.princeton.edu/system/files/webform/97035559296.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://scripts.sil.org/OFLIn PDF document text

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Extracted artifacts 1

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
font_00_sfnt_off0000de96.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xDE96 5040 bytes
SHA-256: eb0607e19fae8988697678a9ca9b75ed4e440e945e24beaafe15e3228ebf94d1

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