Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 467e226da50ca58e…

MALICIOUS

PDF

88.8 KB Created: 2021-05-30 03:28:25 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7) First seen: 2021-08-20
MD5: c7664be7baf928bc2b7caf7229077f42 SHA-1: db4af0fbbebc432ce597e780e6da3e42f192f7bb SHA-256: 467e226da50ca58e813dcdd20cc1939f26413a97e905d568873250f6c344d41d
186 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

This PDF file is identified as malicious by ClamAV and an ML classifier, indicating a high probability of malicious intent. The document contains a large number of external links, many hosted on disposable domains, suggesting it functions as a link farm designed to redirect users to potentially harmful content. The embedded URL 'https://kuzutuzo.ru/strik?utm_term=please+understand+me+ii+summary' is a primary indicator of this redirection behavior.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9997

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=please+understand+me+ii+summary PDF link annotation
    • https://biditeso.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/4/3/134339176/zubalo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn-cms.f-static.net/uploads/4407313/normal_6051a90254650.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://mubajodopiwal.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/1/4/131454521/vevolur.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://fojomifurinu.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/1/3/131378835/de1bfe52a63.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn-cms.f-static.net/uploads/4380211/normal_601af7085b25e.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn-cms.f-static.net/uploads/4404512/normal_5fdc61f755b15.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://fozoxusesabe.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/4/7/134748975/469975.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://xuzatikanuji.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/0/7/130775198/119003.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://pupalizote.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/4/7/134716330/gevivekutijo-vinifisavotobu-sivaxamul-joritadedoru.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://jutineriru.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/4/8/134866815/xasewewadogek.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn-cms.f-static.net/uploads/4496815/normal_604100a8d536d.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://wejafivikime.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/0/9/130969279/3943742.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn-cms.f-static.net/uploads/4410004/normal_6066ed0b0a88f.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://farunigi.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/4/7/134716297/gujopap_xagegabojal_sorevumowegip.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://lenagalazipanom.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/5/3/135310064/novaxunakedex.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/1610b3a2-3a80-475e-bc9e-f50363ca1a35/36915286188.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://uploads.strikinglycdn.com/files/6946e627-3c2f-40ae-8db4-9580af1d4414/4251258457.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://uploads.strikinglycdn.com/files/e896ccad-3f4b-48e8-8694-1a1fb255c895/the_tragedy_of_the_commons_refers_to_the_overuse_of_unregulated_resources.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://uploads.strikinglycdn.com/files/102f9004-98c2-4e69-afbc-8f9ad814db58/49848436992.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://uploads.strikinglycdn.com/files/5954b59e-cbd6-45ae-9005-aaf9f31ee8ed/14214850546.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://uploads.strikinglycdn.com/files/5b703d12-7800-411a-9f4f-05bdf5f4812e/wisuleminuwuwotimo.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_off000119fc.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x119FC 5072 bytes
SHA-256: 9bc8593c38365c7f7d5c759564fbabf8ec3faeda2041ee8c0766231ca0fb5998
font_01_sfnt_off00012b2a.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x12B2A 15560 bytes
SHA-256: 85684a7d4b359d2bcce9b05dd7f1758790899b69fbb5c010beaaa483f79da47d