Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 e9ea676b7fea074f…

MALICIOUS

PDF

77.7 KB Created: 2021-04-06 16:53:31 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7) First seen: 2021-09-23
MD5: 743811e98f1646c6279feaa173e8e1c4 SHA-1: 0ed0a4d47149a5144c3606dd3bc882a54a658d01 SHA-256: e9ea676b7fea074f5ee158555fbee236598f19199fc4586a6e290e745fd1c447
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 0.9752

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/lajeriz.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://www.friendlycc.com/sites/default/files/webform/29579557159.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.jts.org.jo/sites/default/files/webform/86196288468.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.telluridescience.org/sites/default/files/tstc-applications/kuvusuwube.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.enwidth.com/sites/default/files/webform/resumes/sojinikud.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ambrose.edu/sites/default/files/webform/85138354947.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://vectorcorp.net/sites/default/files/webform/resume/86038084563.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://oaklandchildcare.org/sites/default/files/webform/veser.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.grotekeukens.be/sites/default/files/webform/gmawards2018/gurolaxi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.pbttphtk.gov.my/sites/default/files/webform/31626011693.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://cicatsalud.com/html/sites/default/files/webform/99284441703.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.friendlycc.com/sites/default/files/webform/zuguxinukebezukul.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.muttypawsacademy.com/sites/default/files/webform/vaccines/17184396690.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ambrose.edu/sites/default/files/webform/sovurusogizafubeb.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.telluridescience.org/sites/default/files/tstc-applications/38780162719.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.termis.org/system/files/webform/98565071062.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://fontawesome.iohttp://fontawesome.io/license/In PDF document text
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/In PDF document text
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/typedesigners.htmlIn PDF document text
    • http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Uplcv/~3/A3Ryygt5BCM/uplcv?utm_term=pdf+auditing+as+an+instrument+for+ensuring+accountabilityPDF link annotation
    • https://ec.europa.eu/eip/agriculture/sites/default/files/webform/5272012193.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://campusrec.princeton.edu/system/files/webform/26909318775.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://scripts.sil.org/OFLIn PDF document text

Extracted artifacts 4

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
font_00_sfnt_off0000f435.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF435 1724 bytes
SHA-256: 1af1fdb02f150e4b7fb9ab825036f356033ef8d1f6adfeb519aebbff9637efeb
font_01_sfnt_off0000fcc1.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xFCC1 5584 bytes
SHA-256: a7b35cc8c6067b8d6f5ff5157f81d5e92e8af7598005f05ad0460d0157acdbdf
font_02_sfnt_off00010fb2.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x10FB2 2108 bytes
SHA-256: 82f2f513f1609d88471d7e2805e55c29bb7c0a3e474cf3bb86a7a6eec27b620e
font_03_sfnt_off00011959.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x11959 10588 bytes
SHA-256: 68a8f2f19be308d80c9866955e3319c8f778893335f1c630d147bcf76fea950d