Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 e4f437d039e0fc3d…

MALICIOUS

PDF

55.6 KB Created: 2021-04-21 21:15:42 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7) First seen: 2021-09-23
MD5: 35fe460ee703694b7924ab52db4d5f1d SHA-1: 65d4950caaac1bc7cf4a85baab735b75e12ffb96 SHA-256: e4f437d039e0fc3d142ecaea0463a368943127923812cbfe4fc6b503721dae9a
94 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

This PDF document was flagged as malicious by ClamAV. 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 suspicious score 0.3753

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://ambrose.edu/sites/default/files/webform/58588935603.pdf In PDF document text
    • https://www.telluridescience.org/sites/default/files/tstc-applications/pagasumoxozodaxatukaliwus.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.muttypawsacademy.com/sites/default/files/webform/vaccines/89533113822.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.pbttphtk.gov.my/sites/default/files/webform/74795851198.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.natsihwa.org.au/sites/default/files/webform/lavajaruzapelusudixavu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://oaklandchildcare.org/sites/default/files/webform/subeditanutojodojewogize.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.jsif.org/sites/default/files/webform/54250685962.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Uplcv/~3/1xuhb7AK25c/uplcv?utm_term=livro+vidas+secas+pdf+downloadPDF link annotation
    • https://lib.asu.edu/system/files/webform/rutepirunumobapof.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://printandmail.princeton.edu/system/files/webform/zupedofijemurak.pdfIn PDF document text