Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 cf1bf60bf85d82a0…

MALICIOUS

PDF

59.7 KB Created: 2021-04-12 21:12:16 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7) First seen: 2021-10-01
MD5: 1bead306f9480586a27ba921bbc78b46 SHA-1: d00b7c1456a484cb02e3a052cd7d3db3d91cca70 SHA-256: cf1bf60bf85d82a0c980d2e182915c19ce75e21015863d73ee0e4b30f07bf89e
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 0.6609

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://pilgrimland.com/sites/default/files/webform/resume-uploads/52872338461.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://www.sumnercountyhospital.org/sites/default/files/webform/sixativitav.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://portal-mysigma.com/system/files/student-proof/62332338419.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.guninetwork.org/system/files/webform/heirri_proposals/zarogoluvesiriwameb.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ambrose.edu/sites/default/files/webform/9027254294.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://aboss.by/sites/default/files/webform/32639212941.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.natsihwa.org.au/sites/default/files/webform/72917344941.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://portal-mysigma.com/system/files/student-proof/28249136979.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ambrose.edu/sites/default/files/webform/42416127327.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ambrose.edu/sites/default/files/webform/20598750849.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Uplcv/~3/cv9VXjIrmdE/uplcv?utm_term=quotes+from+dante%252527+s+infernoPDF link annotation
    • https://minorsoncampus.princeton.edu/system/files/webform/97035559296.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://lib.asu.edu/system/files/webform/nexeginexepor.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://community.princeton.edu/system/files/webform/64301273598.pdfIn PDF document text