Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 cdd73bb08e7b179f…

MALICIOUS

PDF

95.7 KB Created: 2021-04-07 07:12:48 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7) First seen: 2021-09-23
MD5: 6d680e910d0e38060c3453f52ecd2550 SHA-1: 9d3917b5da7da2c281c15ca7e9bdcc8aecaf3e53 SHA-256: cdd73bb08e7b179f2744f680c22b5078769e218ed7cd0a74e992634eaacd409c
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 0.9749

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://grossenbacher.co.nz/en/system/files/avoidance-training-certificates/95133977644.pdf In PDF document text
    • https://www.dgs-interparts.be/sites/default/files/xufatonapa.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://pilgrimland.com/sites/default/files/webform/resume-uploads/64296936159.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.osgeurope.com/sites/osg-corporate.dev/files/webform/7486912807.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.uts.cw/sites/default/files/webform/pugixenarewowu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://europa-ts.ru/sites/default/files/webform/sujeludepotunebimetoravij.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.natsihwa.org.au/sites/default/files/webform/42406093886.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.ofalloncasting.com/sites/default/files/webform/34904816646.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.a1touchsolution.nl/sites/default/files/kobovigub.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/In PDF document text
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/typedesigners.htmlIn PDF document text
    • http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Uplcv/~3/BkSY9tpko7c/uplcv?utm_term=biology+11+textbook+miller+levine+pdfPDF link annotation
    • https://printandmail.princeton.edu/system/files/webform/98467125123.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://printandmail.princeton.edu/system/files/webform/83328436210.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://lib.asu.edu/system/files/webform/dilitopuwivane.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_off000147ff.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x147FF 5508 bytes
SHA-256: 89c5fc22711c1527daa74691b353c29c670ea733e6da6bff7f3049b7178b6451
font_01_sfnt_off00015ac8.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x15AC8 13160 bytes
SHA-256: fc485079d78458353819d8ab5aaffad9fcbe883a1a19dc7adb628fa3dd3b0034