Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 74721717fb9ed520…

MALICIOUS

PDF

102.7 KB Created: 2021-01-28 11:37:48 +02:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7) First seen: 2021-10-12
MD5: 42b11c080dc152820b9cf4b4c078ad56 SHA-1: b45098bcd5570db23d4d8ad9dce9ec3840f69626 SHA-256: 74721717fb9ed5208abb2a37df48d92a88c9719af3c84fb6854bf1c6d81885af
186 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

This PDF file was detected as malicious by ClamAV and an ML classifier, indicating a high likelihood of malicious intent. The heuristics reveal it functions as a link farm, containing numerous external URLs pointing to various PDF documents, likely for SEO manipulation or to host malicious content. The presence of multiple disposable hosting domains and UTM parameters suggests a coordinated effort to distribute or obscure malicious links. No scripts were extracted, but the overall structure and URL distribution strongly suggest a phishing or spamming campaign.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9997

Heuristics 6

  • 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 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/aws?utm_term=anusandhan+bengali+film+song PDF link annotation
    • https://pagowabelada.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/0/8/130874520/1512541.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.sqhk.co/godanalumado/giahcjc/offline_notepad_for_chromebook.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://mujekakuvegaxum.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/2/3/132303245/594ef9d5257.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.sqhk.co/bolomekurufe/0jbCBii/street_fighter_4_ce_apk_full_unlocked.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://bioforce-co.site/fundamental_of_entomology_books5npj0.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.sqhk.co/nowovadizeb/TkLia4r/41277584542.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://naxawibumeso.iblogger.org/fibaro_home_center_2_installation_guide.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.sqhk.co/tidaxetosi/cPDgeE2/80192985469.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://about-igsupport.com/tattoo_machine_builder_the_bulldog_ftr867.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.sqhk.co/wezopexa/jihgjd8/formation_sur_les_automates_programmables_siemens.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://relujebaxarun.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/1/1/131164257/jokofazaribozomuwuz.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.sqhk.co/kipasewimoni/fiiAgfC/29356894339.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://felekiki.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/4/6/134689652/2d69c5c5.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://persequen.com/jupunexupaloemu76.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.sqhk.co/nebemina/cjjwehh/85064388273.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.sqhk.co/fifotadog/x7ihibs/61218152828.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http:///\/www.pappulirics.com\/amar-shopno-a.,jeshore-i-In PDF document text
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/In PDF document text
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/typedesigners.htmlIn PDF document text
    • http://www.daltonmaag.com/In PDF document text
    • http://magivaxinel.rf.gd/pomatif.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 4

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
font_00_sfnt_off00012cb3.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x12CB3 9232 bytes
SHA-256: ecd7ef8e21d57624dd17c456d18d9f6ed8f511b565001f63f8e82cd32bcc4a99
font_01_sfnt_off00014a40.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x14A40 5156 bytes
SHA-256: 57682a6bf02b1b9a8ccb67600882b4135bf1423eda68f43fd6b3611e8605a0ee
font_02_sfnt_off00015b90.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x15B90 10568 bytes
SHA-256: 481e0b5d113fe57a5e40487ab25758d928292b84a83ca21b9c36bba82b50939e
font_03_sfnt_off00017f73.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x17F73 4324 bytes
SHA-256: 1062cd8ddf90f4344fa193b395386d5669df1a952e5759311ca261a71931f361