Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 d6e15556978dd50b…

MALICIOUS

PDF

57.2 KB Created: 2021-04-26 22:22:02 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7) First seen: 2021-09-18
MD5: 8ce582f981cf439cfb14a7973a750d65 SHA-1: 98171c32baf8260b14ddcddb389ebd07a3fe17fb SHA-256: d6e15556978dd50bf791bedd5b958dc36b88d61a1480015511432791b37df910
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 0.8237

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://www.guninetwork.org/system/files/webform/heirri_proposals/nuxikovevevugodir.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://www.muttypawsacademy.com/sites/default/files/webform/vaccines/lozege.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.mainephilanthropy.org/sites/default/files/wimatetomowitiki.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://pilgrimland.com/sites/default/files/webform/resume-uploads/69774832497.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.natsihwa.org.au/sites/default/files/webform/zolevijovexoneda.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.dgs-interparts.be/sites/default/files/60165950635.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.natsihwa.org.au/sites/default/files/webform/tesogiruzan.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.birdlifebotswana.org.bw/sites/default/files/webform/sightings-sketches/43600748611.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.guninetwork.org/system/files/webform/heirri_proposals/44437875789.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://spotlight-sites.com/sites/default/files/webform/4279473489.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/Uplcv/~3/6naE_Nh8_CY/uplcv?utm_term=what+is+a+phonological+processing+disorderPDF link annotation
    • https://lib.asu.edu/system/files/webform/98562832035.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://drones.princeton.edu/system/files/webform/61493424170.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://scripts.sil.org/OFLIn PDF document text

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Extracted artifacts 1

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
font_00_sfnt_off0000ca4b.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xCA4B 5348 bytes
SHA-256: d27aca3c54d3819802110c18a5430775984a2ba1e5a559eeeefa4424f965f826

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