Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 d41b4043d58d6020…

MALICIOUS

PDF

63.6 KB Created: 2021-04-07 08:41:28 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7) First seen: 2021-09-24
MD5: b705fcfab8958237d4345e255bf19839 SHA-1: 7f9994daf5ce01c8be81d9aa8671eaf44e124724 SHA-256: d41b4043d58d60206c5d31d43169d3463af954bf12a24ea26336dee25107d6e3
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 0.9090

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://cicatsalud.com/html/sites/default/files/webform/jowodudarazobipadumalo.pdf In PDF document text
    • https://www.blplegal.com/sites/default/files/webform/25596831819.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.uts.cw/sites/default/files/webform/58994315224.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.enwidth.com/sites/default/files/webform/resumes/paxifufal.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.mainephilanthropy.org/sites/default/files/50588642306.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.natsihwa.org.au/sites/default/files/webform/25680057182.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.visitsavannah.com/sites/default/files/webform/mubojezelu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ambrose.edu/sites/default/files/webform/82598578892.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.muttypawsacademy.com/sites/default/files/webform/vaccines/72246142748.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.blplegal.com/sites/default/files/webform/lolavojirubopikumu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.jwico.com/sites/default/files/webform/monufugabezexi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Uplcv/~3/BvfzZFkJO3s/uplcv?utm_term=action+and+helping+verbs+worksheet+pdfPDF link annotation
    • https://lib.asu.edu/system/files/webform/85824103047.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://community.princeton.edu/system/files/webform/26098210740.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://drones.princeton.edu/system/files/webform/voretazejujuwewoz.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://thesanfordschool.asu.edu/sites/default/files/webform/31460711967.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.vub.be/sites/vub/files/webform/gegisikirusesikogibo.pdfIn PDF document text