Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 74ea13b76ff8f62d…

MALICIOUS

PDF

76.1 KB Created: 2021-04-03 19:40:53 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7) First seen: 2021-06-17
MD5: 003c5e2f3120902e6cbb23ee40c40e24 SHA-1: 83cc308f8a691dc7a862fc40cce6ed9b5e80de74 SHA-256: 74ea13b76ff8f62d24e43298e186a9a4ecdc0427e34de16d5e8f1adc87a69572
126 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

This PDF file was flagged by multiple heuristics, including a critical ClamAV detection and an ML classifier, indicating malicious intent. The file contains numerous embedded URLs, many of which point to disposable or unknown domains, suggesting a link farm or phishing lure. The presence of PDF_SEO_DISPOSABLE_LINK_FARM heuristic further supports this, indicating the PDF is designed to host a large number of links on potentially untrustworthy hosting. No scripts were extracted, but the overall structure and URL distribution strongly suggest a phishing or malware distribution attempt.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9990

Heuristics 5

  • 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
  • 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 http://verifiedbadge-lnstagram.com/how_to_become_a_lab_technician_in_australia9atkp.pdf In PDF document text
    • https://cdn-cms.f-static.net/uploads/4413236/normal_60550014ee41f.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://static.s123-cdn-static.com/uploads/4460243/normal_60094e1edcc68.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://static.s123-cdn-static.com/uploads/4408485/normal_5fccd6879b67e.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://opensol.xyz/342f_platform_number_in_majesticdtir7.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn-cms.f-static.net/uploads/4481053/normal_604c977788140.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://nonretloli.site/filmfare_awards_full_show_2019wbyfl.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://static.s123-cdn-static.com/uploads/4369324/normal_5fe3c7678967d.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://static.s123-cdn-static.com/uploads/4378382/normal_5fe035d80e77a.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://igonlinesupport.com/16583690443z45f5.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn-cms.f-static.net/uploads/4383791/normal_60384beb22d40.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://mnogolidov.xyz/project_management_school_near_me3aont.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://static.s123-cdn-static.com/uploads/4419820/normal_5fccbbe80da95.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/In PDF document text
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/typedesigners.htmlIn PDF document text
    • http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/wb/ENAH/~3/bQ3nTxENlgE/wb?keyword=linden%20black%20forest%20alarm%20clock%20made%20in%20west%20germanyPDF link annotation
    • https://uploads.strikinglycdn.com/files/2899777b-8078-4f65-8ce4-29b2f9cafc64/python_list_length_method.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://vaxilokenifak.epizy.com/historical_fiction_picture_books.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://uploads.strikinglycdn.com/files/dc664770-dd99-4fb8-b727-cbbeb79ad1ff/37115969556.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://uploads.strikinglycdn.com/files/3c136217-61c6-4b6c-828b-020925c562eb/68064203533.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://uploads.strikinglycdn.com/files/d9aa76c6-ada9-40c4-b553-cb114149c431/what_are_some_ethical_issues_of_editing_human_dna.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://uploads.strikinglycdn.com/files/d233c30f-8b69-446c-9e31-33bac0bebf2c/kinh_thanh_cuu_uoc.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://latujetob.epizy.com/management_and_treatment_of_hypertension.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://fasilew.epizy.com/spotify_songs_android.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://uploads.strikinglycdn.com/files/66bc9f4f-1253-46e1-b699-cf9145aac93e/how_tall_is_hugo_weaving_in_feet.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://uploads.strikinglycdn.com/files/4c7d1eee-d2ad-42ac-b6f9-20271aab1a97/vafuni.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://lotapit.epizy.com/84352723603.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://uploads.strikinglycdn.com/files/87548ee6-86a7-4bf9-b3e0-7bf19f9d7bc2/taco_bell_menu_uk_price_list.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_off0000e6d1.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xE6D1 5680 bytes
SHA-256: 5858aa4c77a4b621c6effd4806d076e3d9d7a9738d6e85c20db8364272757b3f
font_01_sfnt_off0000fa32.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xFA32 11336 bytes
SHA-256: 726adb9e46dcc8452ed54ae373f98239eca04d2c5c497043872400448115c2c6