Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 c684901747389a25…

MALICIOUS

PDF

57.2 KB Created: 2021-04-21 03:17:35 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7) First seen: 2021-09-23
MD5: 790b1036eaa734a56acd73beaa4e4dc2 SHA-1: c63de0eede2575401e4e59c82f14607330c8b69f SHA-256: c684901747389a25c2392dfdf295a83082be8a696a3d663a35fbba1fdb8eb812
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 0.7768

Heuristics 4

  • ClamAV: Pdf.Phishing.Trojan-d2528dad23a95d95-d2528dad23a95d95-10044376-0 critical CLAMAV_DETECTION
    ClamAV detected this file as malware: Pdf.Phishing.Trojan-d2528dad23a95d95-d2528dad23a95d95-10044376-0
  • 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.pbttphtk.gov.my/sites/default/files/webform/1232685222.pdf In PDF document text
    • https://europa-ts.ru/sites/default/files/webform/sujeludepotunebimetoravij.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://grossenbacher.co.nz/en/system/files/avoidance-training-certificates/22559513310.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.enwidth.com/sites/default/files/webform/resumes/75468476758.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.mothercare.ro/sites/default/files/webform/resumes/jevosofotabotasif.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://oaklandchildcare.org/sites/default/files/webform/85278691340.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.osgeurope.com/sites/osg-corporate.dev/files/webform/99469138220.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/cv9VXjIrmdE/uplcv?utm_term=how+to+put+phone+on+speaker+during+callPDF link annotation
    • https://ec.europa.eu/eip/agriculture/sites/default/files/webform/44438097533.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.ice.cam.ac.uk/sites/www.ice.cam.ac.uk/files/webform/46273532178.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.healthdata.org/sites/default/files/resumes/78922999772.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ubmemeaensoprod.s3.amazonaws.com/ifsec_international/call_for_papers/2021/03/wutiladerotegedubel.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_off0000c4db.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xC4DB 5452 bytes
SHA-256: 09fb45400d5578b8f86436191bfb827a0b28dec09fe52a2469d7a6401437ab7e