Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 e495ccfcb38860ff…

MALICIOUS

PDF

53.1 KB Created: 2021-04-13 20:06:33 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7) First seen: 2021-09-23
MD5: 0d72cbe7f9a6b2f1e98bb8e659e079e2 SHA-1: d39bf0be9e090786ac5e7b037f41d7906a3a4be1 SHA-256: e495ccfcb38860ffaf3f7bbeb8ada0e21e884b5920351b411283f8584d243617
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 0.6254

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.blplegal.com/sites/default/files/webform/8025899801.pdf In PDF document text
    • https://natsihwa.org.au/sites/default/files/webform/46250275999.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.termis.org/system/files/webform/53478461308.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.uts.cw/sites/default/files/webform/tizodakemepegipupimegoxi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.enwidth.com/sites/default/files/webform/resumes/90018929780.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.enwidth.com/sites/default/files/webform/resumes/75468476758.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://seiary.com/sites/default/files/webform/rec/55418097166.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.dgs-interparts.be/sites/default/files/55949953827.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.a1touchsolution.nl/sites/default/files/togivem.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.a1touchsolution.nl/sites/default/files/xofarazenufokedakuzos.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/1eyvgo/aqOO/~3/zMnd8XtcwSM/uplcv?utm_term=manifiesto+del+surrealismo+en+la+literaturaPDF link annotation
    • https://minorsoncampus.princeton.edu/system/files/webform/27732669772.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ec.europa.eu/eip/agriculture/sites/default/files/webform/5272012193.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ubmemeaensoprod.s3.amazonaws.com/ifsec_international/call_for_papers/2021/03/kozavexol.pdfIn PDF document text