Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 26627346e7b43c1b…

MALICIOUS

PDF

84.6 KB Created: 2021-04-15 22:39:55 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7) First seen: 2021-11-23
MD5: a6015398c62bb2097c801b819d0f69d7 SHA-1: 7d193a4457e796b6be355d3267f887170c05183f SHA-256: 26627346e7b43c1bc6d39a1342c9ca123ab89a1da47b65dfae3f26031b8f9136
186 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

This PDF file contains a large number of external links, many hosted on disposable domains, suggesting a link farm or SEO spam operation. The primary URL, https://kuzutuzo.ru/strik, is presented as a search result, indicating a deceptive lure. While no scripts were explicitly extracted, the PDF structure and numerous external links are indicative of malicious intent, likely to redirect users to phishing or malware-hosting sites.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9993

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=what+are+the+main+branches+of+mechanical+engineering PDF link annotation
    • https://cdn.sqhk.co/tinawegu/R1jejgQ/bofaxotodusirixidujewoxek.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://static.s123-cdn-static.com/uploads/4468814/normal_5fc5b42c0ba4b.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.sqhk.co/fenajobuwer/edHjPhb/reading_plus_level_j_top_secret_answers.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.sqhk.co/mabuviko/cQX03up/barbie_dreamhouse_adventures_characters_in_real_life.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.sqhk.co/vatepasoxi/gdjfhjr/wow_brawler_s_guild_bfa_guide.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.sqhk.co/kuzosexiwugu/jajdWRm/bipartisan_budget_act_of_2018.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.sqhk.co/vefuwatak/jfBfLs5/dafesa.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.sqhk.co/tefivezik/YibQgcX/mighty_bomb_jack_game_download_for_android.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://static.s123-cdn-static.com/uploads/4453103/normal_5fee33ef1b0f2.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn-cms.f-static.net/uploads/4413573/normal_5fe84e36db344.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.sqhk.co/manuguwe/hiL1Lge/digipay_cbd_reviews.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.sqhk.co/bafaluminowi/6ijXWAU/aurora_hdr_presets.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/21b170ef-2da9-4a69-b525-a069ea4b5806/air_force_1_black_friday_womens.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://s3.amazonaws.com/tugafebip/windows_10_pro_no_desktop_icons.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://uploads.strikinglycdn.com/files/7e1b79f2-b36a-4522-833e-419038fff761/samsung_remote_aa59-0066a.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://uploads.strikinglycdn.com/files/0bcf8253-3685-49c0-b072-dafe723c727f/buying_a_used_car_victoria_covid.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ef9d90ca-5811-4a1c-810e-75bcfae60121.filesusr.com/ugd/a33af7_6215f64f61ef4fcea03eb73c311703a7.pdf?index=trueIn PDF document text
    • https://s3.amazonaws.com/wuzalugiseto/wukonisejepuri.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://dbb1fad9-9c05-458f-9e32-bc0b7f65d7ec.filesusr.com/ugd/451461_ce0519f6184a45b5b46ac6710a596950.pdf?index=trueIn PDF document text
    • https://28a90398-13b1-4b58-b54c-ed045a6bddf2.filesusr.com/ugd/7e9e1f_f8a6a1d466f84b2aa8fae97fd6edb97f.pdf?index=trueIn PDF document text
    • https://uploads.strikinglycdn.com/files/9b3e4469-6178-43cc-a736-80509c3395bc/how_to_replace_a_belt_on_a_toro_personal_pace_lawn_mower.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://c07b3cb0-7d4a-4e65-9c62-eb3bd0ce3b6b.filesusr.com/ugd/7560d5_b6ca27d892b44224a47b93fb2a93197d.pdf?index=trueIn PDF document text
    • https://s3.amazonaws.com/fuwenoxuzasila/winrar_full_version_free_with_license-_key.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://s3.amazonaws.com/joterige/how_to_change_keyboard_wasd.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://s3.amazonaws.com/labitajaxatufib/97206004275.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_off00010ca6.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x10CA6 5448 bytes
SHA-256: 69251105a0f5c2f2b5a7f02725e0aa9f80d6d3d34e0c0d5290b9e27cd158030b
font_01_sfnt_off00011f12.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x11F12 10400 bytes
SHA-256: 7ed3abae74df0915bf8ae70b58d745b38a59049b6d3c91b1bb3fcd8c904898a9