Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 43a7110db77788d9…

MALICIOUS

PDF

68.4 KB Created: 2021-04-12 07:28:57 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7) First seen: 2021-08-25
MD5: 9318449761281e44bff9bdd40fd2d9b0 SHA-1: aa338f24c61298e9eb76ca5e79a9946185d73976 SHA-256: 43a7110db77788d9109c334bae63a7827c0b9aeeff56f42b1b993ef8f458218c
186 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

This PDF file was detected as malicious by ClamAV and an ML classifier, indicating a high likelihood of malicious intent. It contains a large number of external links, many pointing to disposable hosting, suggesting a link farm or SEO manipulation tactic. The primary URL, https://kuzutuzo.ru/strik?utm_term=civil+engineering+material+testing+lab+manual, is likely part of this scheme to drive traffic or phish users.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9992

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=civil+engineering+material+testing+lab+manual PDF link annotation
    • https://cdn.sqhk.co/befozaxulot/eEjhj2Y/70012531381.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://burigazipe.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/4/7/134764527/zinepapo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://banepopewux.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/4/2/134234854/warulesixuvig.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://gekafokolasiga.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/1/3/131384301/nusojebugiwowo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://satewode.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/1/4/131407014/gomon.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.sqhk.co/vakujediraw/idzykDf/39649681013.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.sqhk.co/zuvezunotumu/ihfhip0/33006044006.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.sqhk.co/vugomupuzisa/gjihjtp/messages_on_apple_watch_but_not_iphone.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/053415a3-1913-4a48-8b68-0558d8a0c51a/rikelerawipalasos.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://30fe55a9-f0c7-4aec-9bf5-b9d2225d99a8.filesusr.com/ugd/c4a51e_64148182172c4e7c86520bd86ebfce21.pdf?index=trueIn PDF document text
    • https://uploads.strikinglycdn.com/files/6c496e32-b95c-401e-a65a-b86f011e93be/best_fighting_style_for_self_defense.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://uploads.strikinglycdn.com/files/9bd6b036-7591-4705-8482-c74ad4eac5a1/gebizux.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://a0f88182-e1f9-4a9c-ba22-d5ce004c6985.filesusr.com/ugd/2f3216_ae71ecba597749288e468474a46dc638.pdf?index=trueIn PDF document text
    • https://86f5e18a-8766-4ae7-b9bf-31430b627380.filesusr.com/ugd/911c12_a9ea42ea28ff4a55b9ad3c9862b4b474.pdf?index=trueIn PDF document text
    • https://uploads.strikinglycdn.com/files/8ef8f65d-c9f4-417f-aa73-ce398e792023/belkin_n450_db_bridge_mode.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://uploads.strikinglycdn.com/files/45ab76c7-f2ca-4f50-9443-ea4745e4904f/50465450576.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://0feddc0e-03bc-46a3-a741-45303deff239.filesusr.com/ugd/6ea6a2_2fade827c8ad4c97af468a95edbb0f60.pdf?index=trueIn PDF document text
    • https://43a2ba88-5de9-465b-b95f-6a4d82f2d06e.filesusr.com/ugd/dcbeda_7c2cb767301d4cbaa1526f7a26d45491.pdf?index=trueIn PDF document text
    • https://uploads.strikinglycdn.com/files/238494f0-2c66-4515-b486-ac15c0323a80/hit_the_road_jack_lyrics_2wei.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://7c8f45b7-e058-4e27-bccd-8ee7dcb26900.filesusr.com/ugd/d5cf39_7a783eed90bf485c9586e43a2bb79638.pdf?index=trueIn PDF document text
    • https://uploads.strikinglycdn.com/files/c4acc5c4-8c7e-4fc0-8bc6-ae8a703b2462/hp_photosmart_5510_ink_cartridge_problem.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://7e005a1c-fb68-43c1-af83-b854b6a2d282.filesusr.com/ugd/dcfb95_848b9431d83a4a10ada2daaa0ebc7601.pdf?index=trueIn PDF document text
    • https://ce099f17-eb12-430b-a452-8d789b3ee5a8.filesusr.com/ugd/aef5b7_a9d3aa33778e410e9d91820292667771.pdf?index=trueIn PDF document text
    • https://uploads.strikinglycdn.com/files/a3a9dd13-76cd-4418-b12a-a1795487d838/how_to_install_a_ceiling_fan_with_a_downrod.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://uploads.strikinglycdn.com/files/a1ad0d5a-8864-4ba8-a69d-ee6416bc330b/vidagikesemo.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_off0000cf93.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xCF93 5108 bytes
SHA-256: 23d12d19bed0634c85a045478b52b9572a3be05ce6d6360ef2dbb6725d2882ed
font_01_sfnt_off0000e0df.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xE0DF 10232 bytes
SHA-256: baead82386abda7747e3537c89800eac5b42a72c07cfd6fef4fe2a0aefba08ed