Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 6d3024c0813967be…

MALICIOUS

PDF

77.9 KB Created: 2021-06-02 08:46:53 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7) First seen: 2021-08-20
MD5: 8cb8f76d4a001716126987c5722dffef SHA-1: 204a6ce87face3410ed099b5084693492c6f97f0 SHA-256: 6d3024c0813967beb18b8f19ea922caf29acd9cdd2e5c54ce04f403ca049358d
194 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF contains a large number of external links, many hosted on disposable domains, indicating a link farm designed to redirect users. ClamAV detected this as Pdf.Phishing.Trojan, and ML classification strongly suggests malicious intent. The presence of embedded URLs and the heuristic 'PDF_SEO_LINK_FARM' confirm the nature of the document as a lure to external, potentially malicious, content.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9998

Heuristics 7

  • 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.
  • Visual download / call-to-action button lure low SE_DOWNLOAD_BUTTON
    Document contains a call-to-action phrase ('Click here to download', 'Download Now', etc.) — low-signal unless other findings point to a malicious workflow
  • 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/123?utm_term=spoken+english+course+video PDF link annotation
    • https://cdn-cms.f-static.net/uploads/4465144/normal_6059ab4eb74f6.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://pedomolakikivo.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/4/4/134440841/b7dcf50c.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://xizotikozuza.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/4/5/134587863/rukazukovubavu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://bizevino.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/4/3/134320064/1427782.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://sajixigepanosu.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/1/0/131070231/fojutiwoboxime-vuzoxoseg-nonilotizev.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://bilobunu.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/5/9/135969114/5926957.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn-cms.f-static.net/uploads/4426408/normal_60170dd6ea5d8.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/9b99eb93-2667-44fc-a1dc-aa3ec19aa347/865988010.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://uploads.strikinglycdn.com/files/9e5628ba-a6fe-4210-8c68-5637e2ee3ab6/what_to_write_in_a_letter_to_the_parole_board.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://uploads.strikinglycdn.com/files/f2ca19d7-5111-4368-8812-9d1e28e1cae1/where_is_sydney_on_australia_map.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://uploads.strikinglycdn.com/files/9fa02a68-dfe8-4d25-bd40-5e490adeaed8/natuzawojuvoxumavejege.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://uploads.strikinglycdn.com/files/8f0418b2-0ba9-4d4c-be83-905880672776/lewis_heitkemper_9th_edition_medical-surgical_nursing.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://risoxef.pbworks.com/w/file/fetch/144439977/how_do_red_kangaroos_reproduce.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://uploads.strikinglycdn.com/files/da1de71f-ca90-440b-8a79-59ebcc3aa0d8/59344911882.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://vibasuvezuz.pbworks.com/w/file/fetch/144486948/sens_figure_et_sens_propre_cm1.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://uploads.strikinglycdn.com/files/cd5938f8-75ae-4786-930d-55b4da279fed/17861444464.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://uploads.strikinglycdn.com/files/c60cc70b-3140-4ced-9343-11aa64332f68/xivelajenanixosatimavexal.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://uploads.strikinglycdn.com/files/fd0c9736-127f-46d4-915c-fb0c9209ad04/kafefojepuvoxobamup.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://uploads.strikinglycdn.com/files/a4500c6b-0d11-4330-977f-d69985d78fc2/excuse_letter_for_being_absent_in_school_due_to_family_matters.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://uploads.strikinglycdn.com/files/09281655-025b-409a-ae63-589c2a8674b0/the_odyssey_book_2_study_guide_answers.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_off0000f209.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF209 5352 bytes
SHA-256: 5c3441a60207ab35565ccd02ed36d033707b71a25fb56a9d1e61f853c543f636
font_01_sfnt_off00010446.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x10446 11232 bytes
SHA-256: d3abdd41d5263ae65dd05e1af57a3999578234e31f2c01615761c343672e8aa9