Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 cfd399b376833929…

MALICIOUS

PDF

67.0 KB Created: 2021-04-13 14:55:06 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7) First seen: 2021-09-23
MD5: 73a1e5f1b464965d2a3aab19c197b606 SHA-1: f7b3d3e4aeedd3ba3e4ee46af9d8a688b3fd3630 SHA-256: cfd399b37683392995b1dd205018d7c2a3e1d7d97e267164d3cdce850b2e8899
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 0.9869

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://www.natsihwa.org.au/sites/default/files/webform/17947704001.pdf In PDF document text
    • https://grossenbacher.co.nz/en/system/files/avoidance-training-certificates/tatemomolefifepa.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://grossenbacher.co.nz/en/system/files/avoidance-training-certificates/22559513310.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://klm3fg.grhosting.cz/sites/default/files/webform/files/vewamilobofesiwukor.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.pbttphtk.gov.my/sites/default/files/webform/nolukaronedibikix.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://architecturaldesigninc.com/sites/default/files/56675633315.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.visitsavannah.com/sites/default/files/webform/59391310887.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.mainephilanthropy.org/sites/default/files/5296457674.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.guninetwork.org/system/files/webform/heirri_proposals/zarogoluvesiriwameb.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://extranet.blanchisserie-toulousaine-de-sante.com/sites/extranet.blanchisserie-toulousaine-de-sante.com/files/documents/justificatifs/29410319198.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://europa-ts.ru/sites/default/files/webform/6529842099.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/In PDF document text
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/typedesigners.htmlIn PDF document text
    • http://www.opentle.orgIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/1eyvgo/aqOO/~3/YTWXjIUwRh0/uplcv?utm_term=crucigramas+matematicos+para+secundariaPDF link annotation
    • https://www.ice.cam.ac.uk/sites/www.ice.cam.ac.uk/files/webform/7842358922.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ubmemeaensoprod.s3.amazonaws.com/ifsec_international/call_for_papers/2021/03/woragirewun.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://scripts.sil.org/OFLIn PDF document text
    • http://www.gnu.org/licenses/gpl.htmlIn PDF document text

Extracted artifacts 2

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
font_00_sfnt_off0000db1a.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xDB1A 5264 bytes
SHA-256: 45b89806ee26997aa176a11ea4e431cc21d2b87b112560101727b3e0c8962be8
font_01_sfnt_off0000ecdb.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xECDB 6068 bytes
SHA-256: 58b4873d33ac9fffaf45ed1a2312b8eb5fadf3b067e77f8cfe9e87095f6a7717