Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 eb4c5584628960f9…

MALICIOUS

PDF

57.0 KB Created: 2021-04-24 12:25:07 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7) First seen: 2021-09-22
MD5: 4cd5a5c293fc80c9b47a5cb610af7e4a SHA-1: 8e171816956131b9ac9f4051140eb1bd43699fd5 SHA-256: eb4c5584628960f9e81544ee3569fec6fdb8cd745a5b28f927e667d34d733fd4
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 0.7220

Heuristics 4

  • ClamAV: Pdf.Phishing.Trojan-d2528dad23a95d95-d2528dad23a95d95-10044376-0 critical CLAMAV_DETECTION
    ClamAV detected this file as malware: Pdf.Phishing.Trojan-d2528dad23a95d95-d2528dad23a95d95-10044376-0
  • 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.grotekeukens.be/sites/default/files/webform/gmawards2018/dufadurelabakugozuku.pdf In PDF document text
    • https://www.osgeurope.com/sites/osg-corporate.dev/files/webform/28911573484.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.jsif.org/sites/default/files/webform/94808830073.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://grossenbacher.co.nz/en/system/files/avoidance-training-certificates/22559513310.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.ofalloncasting.com/sites/default/files/webform/68406293253.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://pilgrimland.com/sites/default/files/webform/resume-uploads/61975266633.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://extranet.blanchisserie-toulousaine-de-sante.com/sites/extranet.blanchisserie-toulousaine-de-sante.com/files/documents/justificatifs/niroxopewesanusogub.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.grotekeukens.be/sites/default/files/webform/gmawards2018/sakobonomoduriv.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.osgeurope.com/sites/osg-corporate.dev/files/webform/zizepuniket.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/In PDF document text
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/typedesigners.htmlIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/skout/mBVl/~3/S30rS-6n6vg/uplcv?utm_term=irobot+roomba+675+robot+vacuum+salePDF link annotation
    • https://thesanfordschool.asu.edu/sites/default/files/webform/xumigisapiwonatidokababup.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.ice.cam.ac.uk/sites/www.ice.cam.ac.uk/files/webform/50075528518.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://lib.asu.edu/system/files/webform/liwubuwivak.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://scripts.sil.org/OFLIn PDF document text

Extracted artifacts 1

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
font_00_sfnt_off0000d4e8.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xD4E8 5440 bytes
SHA-256: cbef5c8158c2ec2629f2d8461392d9fb9d2b6c2c18dc1d9ac378eb9ba52777f3