Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 d1769e210f5b0c70…

MALICIOUS

PDF

50.3 KB Created: 2021-04-27 02:05:43 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7) First seen: 2021-09-23
MD5: 2dddff733ab16b06c95b64a1e6285f53 SHA-1: 3ead852602e90547a66b90b9b6e89be617e6d828 SHA-256: d1769e210f5b0c70baa63b05e4b69ad68fc3a9f17d3cf0c723af643d61a0511a
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 0.6502

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 https://www.jts.org.jo/sites/default/files/webform/96043924660.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://www.grotekeukens.be/sites/default/files/webform/gmawards2018/31843799141.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ambrose.edu/sites/default/files/webform/9979090083.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://klm3fg.grhosting.cz/sites/default/files/webform/files/vewamilobofesiwukor.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.natsihwa.org.au/sites/default/files/webform/doxuwekuwazomiloxeri.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://oaklandchildcare.org/sites/default/files/webform/subeditanutojodojewogize.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.pharoxglobal.com/sites/default/files/webform/balulata.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Uplcv/~3/3vuEKuznOb8/uplcv?utm_term=human+all+too+human+meaningPDF link annotation
    • https://campusrec.princeton.edu/system/files/webform/febapaxugodikuzakepob.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.healthdata.org/sites/default/files/resumes/sametuzovu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://community.princeton.edu/system/files/webform/42655509772.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://umatter.princeton.edu/system/files/webform/requests/72435273025.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://gradfutures.princeton.edu/system/files/webform/xafuzekimizitigemuseli.pdfIn PDF document text