Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 e569971e2f9d17f8…

MALICIOUS

PDF

62.5 KB Created: 2021-10-14 12:47:25 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-11-25
MD5: 685c502a9edff184c0a28c6de2538b97 SHA-1: d7ecfc1d5c2d691c78674a44f428303568d03bfc SHA-256: e569971e2f9d17f87c14566618ec5d765ef28bec89310cb248bfbe54ded4604f
124 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

The sample was detected by ClamAV as Pdf.Phishing.Trojan and flagged by an ML classifier, indicating malicious intent. It contains numerous external URIs and is identified as a link farm on disposable hosting, suggesting it is designed to redirect users to malicious sites. The presence of embedded URLs further supports this attack pattern.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.6290

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://ketchas.ru/uplcv?utm_term=environmental+ethics+and+weak+anthropocentrism PDF link annotation
    • https://austarpharma.com/upload/files/49652953934.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://pokewaveanaheim.com/uploads/files/13127831370.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.entornopublicitario.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/bef97711131b3f4fde21ec40e76da824/lomivasasanevex.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://nuklearmedizin-amro.de/userfiles/file/raminojo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.etbsupplies.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1615937e499ac4---jebowidoboleralonowo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://hanedantoptan.com/upload/files/kigufobi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://brawlcall.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/wexifefowelaliwu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://yizhu580.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/mozefubusaretolewofu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cornwallstaffagency.com/userfiles/file/noxopeko.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://beauty-full.ru/uploads/files/50370857245.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://brakos.it/file/bomubosa.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://temple.mo/userfiles/file/gabojibirin.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.startservis.sk/novy/ckfinder/userfiles/files/53454928532.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://thanglong.vn-greenenergy.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/jarobofalu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://cdmatik.com/uploads/file/sofitakelux.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://boilerservis.ru/uploads/files/xofijixadapipigamurotogov.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cronos.jptecnicascr.com/yiicms/ckfinder/userfiles/files/mewukurarukusijokug.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://esipro.be/userfiles/file/xodejo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://cupta.org/userfiles/files/20211006175445.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://weborder.cloud/userfiles/file///8119750305.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://taumed.kz/upload/2021/09files/210903142121787929timom.pdfIn PDF document text
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