Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 26d70bf7b68f9d09…

MALICIOUS

PDF

80.4 KB Created: 2021-03-18 13:29:32 +02:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7) First seen: 2021-11-24
MD5: 0ac614ecc564269161aa5a00a4e28f97 SHA-1: e06b4f89792e7458b836c7387a0234c82a5056d8 SHA-256: 26d70bf7b68f9d09559f8ad6f1e6d2784de276e037ddb3d24d2ea7c40044af09
186 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

This PDF file was identified as malicious by ClamAV and an ML classifier, indicating a high likelihood of malicious intent. The document functions as a link farm, containing numerous external URLs, with one prominent URL pointing to 'kuzutuzo.ru'. This suggests the PDF is designed to redirect users to potentially malicious websites, likely for phishing or malware distribution. The presence of a link farm on disposable hosting further supports this assessment.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9998

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://kuzutuzo.ru/strik?utm_term=the+reluctant+fundamentalist+book+reviews PDF link annotation
    • https://cdn.sqhk.co/nokowifupe/ahcjhy2/super_disc_duel_2_gumball.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://podarokinsta.site/mudozuputadagp5ka.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://pefiworawodud.mypressonline.com/2602735936.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.sqhk.co/fewibefanid/hhfhejc/bebadewajalewe.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.sqhk.co/vexagajezesa/HiigjUa/69441402162.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.sqhk.co/zubixola/chc4mA1/bitsat_last_year_question_papers.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.sqhk.co/bogovureg/hihjfQ8/marxism_in_american_academia.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://siankaanmexico.com/books_of_the_bible_listed_in_ordern6iw5.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://sparzha.club/netters_anatomy_coloring_book_answer_keyvgj5g.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://wivaserana.mywebcommunity.org/how_to_clean_bissell_proheat_2x_revolution_brushes.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://dosubodanes.mypressonline.com/orca_quantum_chemistry_software.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/In PDF document text
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/typedesigners.htmlIn PDF document text
    • https://3e1d1bad-f645-4ebd-ac75-469e7ff7c972.filesusr.com/ugd/e745be_36dc1222016b416fb71c4c837aa2b089.pdf?index=trueIn PDF document text
    • https://6c892e0d-5736-4b4a-96a3-cd490fd1fe3d.filesusr.com/ugd/1407cd_9c126df85fd640428768137d7dcedd57.pdf?index=trueIn PDF document text
    • https://53f03ce6-db0b-4f41-9bfc-6956ba41e1f4.filesusr.com/ugd/727e0f_9994154a733e4621948a040d6b3e2830.pdf?index=trueIn PDF document text
    • http://nabulegewuwal.myartsonline.com/autonomous_learning_in_the_workplace.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://7d7e9a41-1eea-4c72-a0b8-c0e3d642de37.filesusr.com/ugd/513cfa_68184beafe27492fb845d0c32e0f3aeb.pdf?index=trueIn PDF document text
    • https://1e438cd7-6f3b-42ac-a97b-d13a75fa135b.filesusr.com/ugd/0c268c_050261275767425f96b6d9937662ea39.pdf?index=trueIn PDF document text
    • https://64b67c6e-fbbd-4787-add8-9ed3e274c95c.filesusr.com/ugd/eb6612_2e97690f7a0942b4a335361f9a80f0d3.pdf?index=trueIn PDF document text
    • https://a91873a8-1f5b-4151-915d-af39eb211f25.filesusr.com/ugd/3f80ec_ee6b55908aed46a9bf10a8a45fa163f9.pdf?index=trueIn PDF document text
    • https://108bb973-5399-4bf7-a70e-a18780752cac.filesusr.com/ugd/760a88_cb802629dadd4f189460b0c799ad0c6f.pdf?index=trueIn 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_off0000f904.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF904 5564 bytes
SHA-256: 3af851711444f5069d3939c2a0ec8cba752494d54ccac0fe4c7643d271fbc640
font_01_sfnt_off00010bd8.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x10BD8 11412 bytes
SHA-256: 17d1fe6272753be8a69b951efe8345f789be16f8c21a339572e70593be99482d