Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 72c70ae0b5e347dd…

MALICIOUS

PDF

87.8 KB Created: 2021-02-01 06:52:39 +02:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7) First seen: 2021-09-16
MD5: 5da286d760267d2d373c96188fb60f24 SHA-1: 2676f43f080259df3da69c91544f36fa74544b78 SHA-256: 72c70ae0b5e347dd4727ecdfd365d859422b643b84796d7117be06ade0a93ee4
186 Risk Score
Tags
free-cdn-ebook-manual-lure

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment T1059.007 JavaScript

The PDF file contains a large number of external links, many pointing to disposable hosting services, indicating a link farm or SEO manipulation tactic. The ClamAV detection and ML classifier strongly suggest malicious intent, likely related to phishing or distributing further malware. While no scripts were explicitly extracted, the PDF structure and numerous external links are indicative of a malicious campaign, possibly involving embedded JavaScript for redirection or exploitation.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9998

Heuristics 6

  • 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 contains mass external PDF link farm critical PDF_SEO_LINK_FARM
    Small PDF contains many clickable external PDF links, mostly clustered on one host. This matches generated SEO/link-farm PDF carriers used to route users into malicious or unwanted-software delivery chains, rather than a normal document citation pattern.
  • 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
  • Object number defined twice with different bodies info PDF_DUPLICATE_OBJ_BODY_INCREMENTAL
    The same indirect object (N G) is defined more than once with different body bytes. First-wins and last-wins readers will resolve different content, which is a parser-confusion shape used by targeted PDFs. Body-only differences are common in benign incremental updates, so severity is raised only when the duplicate carries active content.
  • 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://jottigo.ru/123?utm_term=satya+nadella+hit+refresh+pdf PDF link annotation
    • https://static.s123-cdn-static.com/uploads/4450636/normal_5fe52f7373227.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://mibugekokedepi.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/2/6/132682655/0c3ab.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://guzepebizosi.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/4/8/134880367/xizasatofepek.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://lejonelawubuw.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/1/4/131453657/2358267.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://sepetumeba.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/4/6/134601334/mikavasilepetu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn-cms.f-static.net/uploads/4383680/normal_600ee7c4089e6.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://nuxirudeduw.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/4/4/134442083/2e842ce4a.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn-cms.f-static.net/uploads/4417305/normal_6012897f2a5c1.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://nopiwevupemaro.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/4/6/134653234/5994183.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://static.s123-cdn-static.com/uploads/4446638/normal_5ffb3c3c20030.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn-cms.f-static.net/uploads/4502721/normal_5fe768fa37a3a.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://lepamume.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/4/8/134882258/jusadiduwonele_kaxom_tesepodejovofov_kafabudedeg.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://zusavakaki.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/0/8/130815140/3e0dd39d7.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://vebexedupatad.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/2/7/132740253/ec848e98dc72.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/In PDF document text
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/typedesigners.htmlIn PDF document text
    • https://s3.amazonaws.com/murudute/22508850014.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://s3.amazonaws.com/wefemabeni/81817495665.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://s3.amazonaws.com/sefiwegegagu/attestation_statement_template.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://zepibugab.rf.gd/51190530594.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://muzubakow.epizy.com/13138040895.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.w3.org/1999/02/22-rdf-syntax-ns#In PDF document text
    • http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/In PDF document text
    • http://ns.adobe.com/pdf/1.3/In PDF document text
    • http://ns.adobe.com/xap/1.0/In PDF document text
    • http://ns.adobe.com/xap/1.0/mm/In PDF document text
    • http://ns.adobe.com/xap/1.0/rights/In 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_off000117ad.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x117AD 5332 bytes
SHA-256: a85a4a5529428d48d792e78e479fff1946130ca17d428ef823006eb52d924d97
font_01_sfnt_off000129d0.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x129D0 11992 bytes
SHA-256: b7e392a78f3f8b323bdb2da153fef3f82de49af7dcdc27c4770058159fe468d0

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