Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 ea5ad5850f8f5c7c…

MALICIOUS

PDF

54.7 KB Created: 2021-04-20 04:25:07 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7) First seen: 2021-09-18
MD5: d6d2e14f52528b87efc2b15c4c3d507f SHA-1: b7c79daf0f583803dca55b9b6e416de6a4032f75 SHA-256: ea5ad5850f8f5c7c15ea8e9d12022b758bdaaf97338b0e4253a8c2d5594b9c22
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 0.6699

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 http://www.pbttphtk.gov.my/sites/default/files/webform/95941620813.pdf In PDF document text
    • https://www.enwidth.com/sites/default/files/webform/resumes/lerudaxalopavowurugepoviw.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.natsihwa.org.au/sites/default/files/webform/setafemamuf.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://cicatsalud.com/html/sites/default/files/webform/15691680518.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.guninetwork.org/system/files/webform/heirri_proposals/rarapenebeku.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://klm3fg.grhosting.cz/sites/default/files/webform/files/nuzutigurazuleziwuta.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.muttypawsacademy.com/sites/default/files/webform/vaccines/powevalixerofewum.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://grossenbacher.co.nz/en/system/files/avoidance-training-certificates/tonitunivopevefasoxezaw.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ambrose.edu/sites/default/files/webform/mamak.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.enwidth.com/sites/default/files/webform/resumes/48862039041.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/1eyvgo/aqOO/~3/1KS0DP0cxss/uplcv?utm_term=kbb+sell+valuePDF link annotation
    • https://ec.europa.eu/eip/agriculture/sites/default/files/webform/sukazejaso.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ec.europa.eu/eip/agriculture/sites/default/files/webform/76225898136.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://campusrec.princeton.edu/system/files/webform/putiwokareviwe.pdfIn PDF document text