Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 e32ea57c60ddea48…

MALICIOUS

PDF

53.1 KB Created: 2021-04-19 00:58:19 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7) First seen: 2021-07-02
MD5: da0bc576850a0e8336728fed300f932c SHA-1: 843407c9da55dc10552c932a342f2a4b32c29282 SHA-256: e32ea57c60ddea48b6a434b08d15c44db20a9fc56ba044413f389fd54e55299b
124 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment T1059.007 JavaScript

The file was detected as malicious by ClamAV and an ML classifier, indicating a high likelihood of malicious intent. Heuristics identified it as a link farm PDF, with numerous embedded URLs pointing to potentially malicious or phishing sites. The presence of PDF_URI and EMBEDDED_URL heuristics suggests the document's primary function is to redirect users to external resources.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.6648

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.jts.org.jo/sites/default/files/webform/76938035167.pdf In PDF document text
    • https://www.woonsocketri.org/system/temporary/webform/kebadewanizokodijixupid.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ambrose.edu/sites/default/files/webform/zateguzafafidefezibexe.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.natsihwa.org.au/sites/default/files/webform/19026354442.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.enwidth.com/sites/default/files/webform/resumes/22435641867.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.osgeurope.com/sites/osg-corporate.dev/files/webform/80982398497.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://cicatsalud.com/html/sites/default/files/webform/dozigax.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://vectorcorp.net/sites/default/files/webform/resume/tefofavokalozigukar.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.woonsocketri.org/system/temporary/webform/konoju.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.telluridescience.org/sites/default/files/tstc-applications/dadesiludidogujuta.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.enwidth.com/sites/default/files/webform/resumes/89382212171.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.pbttphtk.gov.my/sites/default/files/webform/95941620813.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.natsihwa.org.au/sites/default/files/webform/51762260361.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ambrose.edu/sites/default/files/webform/21691652676.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://cicatsalud.com/html/sites/default/files/webform/604022749.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/skout/mBVl/~3/fzgW7-mxBc0/uplcv?utm_term=expository+preaching+without+notes+pdfPDF link annotation
    • https://printandmail.princeton.edu/system/files/webform/fasulegok.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://minorsoncampus.princeton.edu/system/files/webform/tuvoluxasivawujunaz.pdfIn PDF document text