Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 f985eb9382adee87…

MALICIOUS

PDF

54.7 KB Created: 2021-04-25 05:08:40 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7) First seen: 2021-09-22
MD5: 5151426cfa0eff7aab7e3acc514c1f8d SHA-1: 8e3d878a2e8f10e58ad716cd651bc12e278b95b2 SHA-256: f985eb9382adee876543e5dbbfbb5f929f57b54ae39aa4a3697444204a55d910
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 0.7873

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.pacificsportfraservalley.com/sites/default/files/webform/12938533755.pdf In PDF document text
    • https://www.cdcplumbing.com/sites/default/files/webform/contact-us/sawifujemenolezaf.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.termis.org/system/files/webform/53478461308.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.ofalloncasting.com/sites/default/files/webform/tirudekamevajoluzagobumi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.blplegal.com/sites/default/files/webform/piselusani.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.enwidth.com/sites/default/files/webform/resumes/ralivowu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://seiary.com/sites/default/files/webform/rec/6045441545.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://russian-ice-spb.ru/sites/default/files/webform/files/32020734574.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/1eyvgo/aqOO/~3/zMnd8XtcwSM/uplcv?utm_term=cuanto+es+90+gr+de+mantequilla+en+tazasPDF link annotation
    • https://drones.princeton.edu/system/files/webform/zifogisabivaloxigisosobu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://drones.princeton.edu/system/files/webform/vijebutipide.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ubmemeaensoprod.s3.amazonaws.com/ifsec_international/call_for_papers/2021/03/37488496184.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_off0000c479.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xC479 5524 bytes
SHA-256: 7133b502bb17a8c3a9974de2abc40c7771709d30a89a5ccc72a62de8a724f4a2