Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 d508e971246490bb…

MALICIOUS

PDF

79.6 KB Created: 2021-04-15 17:52:03 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7) First seen: 2021-09-23
MD5: b618f408e18dc545ab9a35952d323eee SHA-1: b1864b94b792ed4cc6669fea6bf15866a27e3331 SHA-256: d508e971246490bbd4819bfc2ac2c4d643f4cdba19a9eb4a563db9e8ac0adc5f
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 0.7514

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/jedirokadezat.pdf In PDF document text
    • https://www.enwidth.com/sites/default/files/webform/resumes/zozagosetimof.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://vectorcorp.net/sites/default/files/webform/resume/sowasipaxezok.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.visitsavannah.com/sites/default/files/webform/mubojezelu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://grossenbacher.co.nz/en/system/files/avoidance-training-certificates/xetomaroronep.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.ofalloncasting.com/sites/default/files/webform/geguridafaj.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.osgeurope.com/sites/osg-corporate.dev/files/webform/7486912807.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ambrose.edu/sites/default/files/webform/fabifuturofutip.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://klm3fg.grhosting.cz/sites/default/files/webform/files/todoxobolukajit.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.pbttphtk.gov.my/sites/default/files/webform/zoxajetuvu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.grotekeukens.be/sites/default/files/webform/gmawards2018/30150103061.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.natsihwa.org.au/sites/default/files/webform/bukitonixoravutewoluba.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/In PDF document text
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/typedesigners.htmlIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/1eyvgo/aqOO/~3/ngfLrbzwjls/uplcv?utm_term=nasm+personal+training+bookPDF link annotation
    • https://ec.europa.eu/eip/agriculture/sites/default/files/webform/27560642257.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_off00010aac.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x10AAC 5312 bytes
SHA-256: a18a66b945c240e5563edf08d71ec5e01f5808b1f7acf22f3e34892bfe842dec
font_01_sfnt_off00011ca6.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x11CA6 11944 bytes
SHA-256: bfa579bc7e5678ff4f9007b3406cfc4cdeee388171eb8d62621cb01469d27b89