Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 18e90b78102d3f3c…

MALICIOUS

PDF

81.6 KB Created: 2021-04-10 06:03:42 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7) First seen: 2021-09-13
MD5: 0c35ae534d50302dda3393d703e23989 SHA-1: ca9d2a676640ba751f86c9f22c5fb61e667921ad SHA-256: 18e90b78102d3f3c73b22f12e467506e8bc5afbc929191507d687c0557fecad6
186 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

This PDF document was identified as malicious by ClamAV and an ML classifier. It contains a large number of external links, many of which are hosted on disposable domains, suggesting a link farm or SEO manipulation tactic. One of the embedded URLs, https://kuzutuzo.ru/strik?utm_term=how+to+arbitrage+amazon, is particularly suspicious and likely leads to a phishing or malware distribution site.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9991

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://kuzutuzo.ru/strik?utm_term=how+to+arbitrage+amazon PDF link annotation
    • https://cdn-cms.f-static.net/uploads/4366302/normal_6026511134ddf.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn-cms.f-static.net/uploads/4418166/normal_60594b1521d08.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://static.s123-cdn-static.com/uploads/4489428/normal_5ff63a416c1f5.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://static.s123-cdn-static.com/uploads/4491671/normal_5fc6b71e8fac2.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn-cms.f-static.net/uploads/4470968/normal_601a8146a7f7b.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn-cms.f-static.net/uploads/4414688/normal_5fda7de4133f3.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn-cms.f-static.net/uploads/4418383/normal_602b278276839.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn-cms.f-static.net/uploads/4471514/normal_604f198b2ff23.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn-cms.f-static.net/uploads/4409421/normal_602a209dc9cad.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://pimesizawox.sportsontheweb.net/formato_de_control_de_inventarios_en_excel_descargar.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://xepewifub.mygamesonline.org/5000w_audio_amplifier_circuit_diagram.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn-cms.f-static.net/uploads/4409403/normal_60207867314cb.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/In PDF document text
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/typedesigners.htmlIn PDF document text
    • https://uploads.strikinglycdn.com/files/59a3bbaf-e380-4fa6-9579-5d0594e3a05f/how_to_change_whirlpool_thermal_fuse.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://uploads.strikinglycdn.com/files/25d37c24-6d00-42e0-b01c-65e68a58226b/dell_e93839_az0422_motherboard_manual.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://2a085669-a8dc-40eb-b1d3-71ea9d660f60.filesusr.com/ugd/cafc24_c292024666834574a4d24bc22e30a427.pdf?index=trueIn PDF document text
    • https://b3709dad-42f4-4621-9b7e-74d31ca978cd.filesusr.com/ugd/f91cf1_8bb3aedd259848138e3d4eaab0ab2432.pdf?index=trueIn PDF document text
    • http://dolemajij.epizy.com/wutoju.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://uploads.strikinglycdn.com/files/31715812-18fa-434f-98b2-586f5c9b947f/tidejo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://pojoviraxerojo.myartsonline.com/my_first_britannica_download.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://uploads.strikinglycdn.com/files/a13748e1-e8b7-47f3-9513-d929f5dc753d/possessive_pronouns_spanish_worksheet.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://tadukaxuzevida.epizy.com/arcadia_quest_board_game_rules.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://zusirutovazume.epizy.com/vifiw.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://joxumokuri.epizy.com/hard_algebra_problems_with_answers.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://uploads.strikinglycdn.com/files/3d0e9dba-e6f6-4d3a-90a9-7584b2274846/oreck_xl_vacuum.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_off0001012f.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x1012F 5036 bytes
SHA-256: 46b7ae243236d49e02eac0c0c8fee0ff12e62bb0e7fcbc952705825213718442
font_01_sfnt_off00011255.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x11255 10848 bytes
SHA-256: 6386c95ce4f8dfe2d021f40f64669dbc7e735a4812f0227ba6f58bbef212491b