Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 45c1b4d841827f7f…

MALICIOUS

PDF

91.1 KB Created: 2021-04-05 15:27:37 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7) First seen: 2021-07-02
MD5: 19014081beed1fe1a951a4f40985d421 SHA-1: 5c7d455e87e588d3c0ca4de39fb04366069ed696 SHA-256: 45c1b4d841827f7f292cf6aacc7eef59b8936d7adb2632f9c494cb90287cceb3
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 hosted on disposable domains, suggesting it functions as a link farm designed to distribute further malicious content or phish users. The document body, though heavily obfuscated, appears to be a lure related to essay structure outlines.

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=argumentative+essay+structure+outline PDF link annotation
    • https://towuzisutodugo.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/0/9/130969847/gatusujezok.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.sqhk.co/wujamufaw/c6pchg8/real_drift_racing_road_racer_unlimited_money.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.sqhk.co/gasukatebu/Yjbjghd/kigaxuwu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://bixunirejo.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/5/3/135329058/e0bd0adcf.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.sqhk.co/xogedusov/0ILiiag/91468672429.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://pagazamis.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/5/3/135310118/ce1e4bc.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://benodamefeju.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/5/3/135346815/fikobagur.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://nukanepinax.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/1/4/131454046/xitidagedijubef.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.sqhk.co/munuluxel/R9iKggJ/30930671666.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.sqhk.co/vojofarakiva/gcgd0TP/49360327271.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.sqhk.co/xedasuzefer/jiiJggF/34203624096.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.sqhk.co/gosukutusu/fligjcu/78951434027.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.sqhk.co/tibatojo/eEZTEhc/amazon_prime_video_30_day_free_trial_cancel.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://govovimifakine.mywebcommunity.org/86475626465.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/In PDF document text
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/typedesigners.htmlIn PDF document text
    • http://zekerivowula.rf.gd/economist_magazine_free_download.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://070488ba-e3d9-4c74-834b-445551f5513c.filesusr.com/ugd/fb83f1_5e6e3620504a44438ec80bc953f64069.pdf?index=trueIn PDF document text
    • https://836291d8-7b77-40db-be8c-3105928c7ef3.filesusr.com/ugd/aae074_d5fd40392c474a2a9db778ea5dff9c13.pdf?index=trueIn PDF document text
    • http://kimizajoveso.epizy.com/how_to_get_adobe_acrobat_pro_dc.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://tizavoju.rf.gd/92470435599.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://200c4c3d-185b-4246-b99f-f40cd7065c99.filesusr.com/ugd/3ed902_6be46ae09df6424d9b5bd367d4e24c30.pdf?index=trueIn PDF document text
    • https://8b8c7005-3af0-45a1-8e5b-a6902caa9335.filesusr.com/ugd/dbd7d9_959351c3d3ec433185c3f67a6ec9bbc1.pdf?index=trueIn PDF document text
    • https://6e8b94c7-278c-4a65-9c30-8d61c93a8f31.filesusr.com/ugd/9ff9b8_a85d75e8a13f4f7d860b18e2499fbcf5.pdf?index=trueIn PDF document text
    • http://jalebuvubo.myartsonline.com/rekakigurelufefonenago.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_off00012692.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x12692 5268 bytes
SHA-256: c686e0a6cb7ebafc9a45d2c0c12a09c0cb04afa6711e990ff96e7d2b04a40468
font_01_sfnt_off00013877.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x13877 11132 bytes
SHA-256: 185901414406d419cbaee0145eac2290ef7239ccc0a627501391423abbb1f7bc