Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 224c1b4b0469fe71…

MALICIOUS

PDF

78.0 KB Created: 2021-04-07 01:08:50 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7) First seen: 2021-08-20
MD5: 7112b8346716f3ac3f7398b74a90f5fd SHA-1: d3e20267862a8e44f3e78f5628bdfc0401099e5c SHA-256: 224c1b4b0469fe71e7f67e55b718c4dbbf1c632a7433bfed3326a614dc674c53
186 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF file contains a link farm with numerous external URLs, disguised as search results for a popular book. The primary URL, 'https://kuzutuzo.ru/award?keyword=hunger+games+book+2+pdf+free', and other linked PDFs suggest a phishing or malware distribution attempt. The heuristic 'PDF_SEO_LINK_FARM' indicates a large number of external links, and ClamAV detection confirms its malicious nature.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9964

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/award?keyword=hunger+games+book+2+pdf+free PDF link annotation
    • http://hotita.space/baby_leatherback_bearded_dragons_for_saleliee7.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.sqhk.co/jekunesoru/vjhvXNI/33595120523.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.sqhk.co/konumapedowe/iet7djd/xojegaruximi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://terifurarogo.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/4/3/134317228/womizafikifope-zojime.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.sqhk.co/pasepizut/zIhiift/disney_magic_timer_par_oral_b.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.sqhk.co/navimoxa/ijjeiak/dalesutulalovevizimotubuz.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://dezlice.ru/237373642967rs8s.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://universal-kirov.ru/what_was_announced_at_the_game_awardstfhte.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.sqhk.co/jajotulix/iifibJv/fewefokokowagem.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://roturusuwanowus.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/4/3/134363773/6475012.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://reperitibomotij.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/1/3/131383541/a7eec53a5ea21.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.sqhk.co/kufomopinu/jhfiahc/30044107946.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.sqhk.co/tumexifukevu/hjGijgd/wuresuwur.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://pejegenipejixe.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/4/8/134848799/bf8b3ad8ea38.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://lightstart.xyz/xadadodukefysl0n.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://wibugosavuzatug.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/4/3/134349607/numar_tikutegapel_jimufejodop_bijutojan.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.sqhk.co/jixuvepabu/fIjeiia/free_download_extreme_car_driving_simulator_for_pc.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.sqhk.co/nopawuwam/dNjgDRR/oddmar_ios_controller.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/jadudusujuje/41757590550.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://s3.amazonaws.com/wemofodi/pimag.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://s3.amazonaws.com/kozewuposoridil/smartsheet_dashboard_design.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://totaraxidob.rf.gd/mandated_reporter_laws.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://zulonojaminipe.rf.gd/39683700355.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://kokutofir.rf.gd/articulate_storyline_portable.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://s3.amazonaws.com/xebuvuwov/94519610088.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://s3.amazonaws.com/tuxenipup/sq11_mini_dv_camera_operating_manual.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_off0000f29c.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF29C 5624 bytes
SHA-256: 0cdd4f80b36d66bb97be78aaf5ac0ede188dc92fd747517151e826ce0ecbbd0e
font_01_sfnt_off000105ab.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x105AB 10812 bytes
SHA-256: 7feb5175968412787fe42f1a0d1f0acc43140d1f83062261e31a4ce993e39e0f