Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 f868b2f6705d20f5…

MALICIOUS

PDF

66.6 KB Created: 2021-04-08 23:30:14 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7) First seen: 2021-09-22
MD5: 19dc23b1b9087706dab11d456477a0e1 SHA-1: 662f1e5cbe429ef08ab739e47dd208b7c4745a52 SHA-256: f868b2f6705d20f529d75d0174fd095b8126190e98d44c9a46cbfd15ffb23421
126 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment 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 0.9680

Heuristics 5

  • 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
  • PDF differential parser failed info PDF_DIFFERENTIAL_PARSE_FAILED
    The cross-check parser (pdfminer.six) failed on this file: PDF differential parser failed: PDFSyntaxError. Static heuristics still ran and any of their findings above are valid; only the differential cross-check signal is missing.
  • 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.sumnercountyhospital.org/sites/default/files/webform/27017481005.pdf In PDF document text
    • https://ambrose.edu/sites/default/files/webform/7968200385.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://extranet.blanchisserie-toulousaine-de-sante.com/sites/extranet.blanchisserie-toulousaine-de-sante.com/files/documents/justificatifs/bariwogutal.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.friendlycc.com/sites/default/files/webform/kilolegejesap.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.dgs-interparts.be/sites/default/files/60165950635.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ambrose.edu/sites/default/files/webform/28961662769.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://seiary.com/sites/default/files/webform/rec/netugapufuzutazegiwiwivi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.jwico.com/sites/default/files/webform/47965191786.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ambrose.edu/sites/default/files/webform/gewematumupam.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ambrose.edu/sites/default/files/webform/bunovodedodasu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.dgs-interparts.be/sites/default/files/36138637258.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://vectorcorp.net/sites/default/files/webform/resume/dufovomajaxavekasodulep.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/Uplcv/~3/fzgW7-mxBc0/uplcv?utm_term=texto+dissertativo+argumentativo+pdfPDF link annotation
    • https://printandmail.princeton.edu/system/files/webform/fasulegok.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ec.europa.eu/eip/agriculture/sites/default/files/webform/juvuwudonuvusenovirem.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://lib.asu.edu/system/files/webform/nexeginexepor.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://thesanfordschool.asu.edu/sites/default/files/webform/20850651402.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://printandmail.princeton.edu/system/files/webform/67925993666.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.ice.cam.ac.uk/sites/www.ice.cam.ac.uk/files/webform/7842358922.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://scripts.sil.org/OFLIn PDF document text

Extracted artifacts 2

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
font_00_sfnt_off0000d0e6.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xD0E6 5408 bytes
SHA-256: ee539b5e98c1e324c0d7ba89ae5a5fbc5d348354cb05df15c4bc2c441a2f82f8
font_01_sfnt_off0000e340.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xE340 12244 bytes
SHA-256: 830e835a63fad3ebdd311ed437f179cdcbd9d0b3bf6ddb8cd9acc316ba7d79e5