Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 7cce3f91953f0268…

MALICIOUS

PDF

85.5 KB Created: 2021-03-11 14:31:47 +02:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7) First seen: 2021-11-20
MD5: f2d0681cc1ab5d7f1cacf0469a577c1d SHA-1: 47898f8491c17eff72193e7967a99fad4dae9adc SHA-256: 7cce3f91953f0268900061fc628166e9ed110cce72debb280c06bb5761b19185
126 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment T1204.002 Malicious Link

This PDF file was flagged as malicious by ML classifiers and ClamAV, indicating a high likelihood of malicious intent. The heuristic 'PDF_SEO_DISPOSABLE_LINK_FARM' suggests the PDF is part of a link farm designed to attract users through search engines, with URLs like 'http://lasns.fun/what_is_expository_text_and_example6witb.pdf' pointing to potentially malicious content. The presence of multiple external URIs, including 'https://kuzutuzo.ru/award?keyword=guitar+learning+book+pdf+free+download', further supports the attack pattern of luring users with deceptive content.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9964

Heuristics 5

  • 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 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/award?keyword=guitar+learning+book+pdf+free+download PDF link annotation
    • http://lasns.fun/what_is_expository_text_and_example6witb.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://liko-sneakers.com/stand_by_me_lyrics_oasis_ben_e_kinglga84.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://vituloza.sportsontheweb.net/27112023359.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://goligofalu.medianewsonline.com/clinical_laboratory_hematology.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://siwupojotuj.getenjoyment.net/58888478211.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn-cms.f-static.net/uploads/4424982/normal_603568727a066.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://nout-sale.site/tamazisaparadarete2u5h5.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://pojokup.getenjoyment.net/29041751979.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn-cms.f-static.net/uploads/4385421/normal_6043253090a1b.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://pobunav.sportsontheweb.net/45555733411.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://nurokojo.mypressonline.com/percy_jackson_and_the_lightning_thief_reading_level.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn-cms.f-static.net/uploads/4393349/normal_601b432b25602.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn-cms.f-static.net/uploads/4374379/normal_6018029a038e6.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://kavelizopepi.mywebcommunity.org/vukavoni.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://cybety.xyz/68489127034aaq6i.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://auto-agents.space/85534735377hqhc9.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/90f4c3ec-6e31-42ff-b6f5-43323c799d01/86560910397.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://uploads.strikinglycdn.com/files/322fce36-c848-4a89-9250-965d15872d4c/59012148857.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://s3.amazonaws.com/zurovajij/body_parts_flashcards_printable.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://s3.amazonaws.com/xedewofuretujo/35088469422.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://uploads.strikinglycdn.com/files/1b141708-a37a-406a-8dd8-1de173782290/how_has_storytelling_changed_over_time.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://s3.amazonaws.com/folexapurilowe/luberunifejitadobu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://miganuvag.myartsonline.com/disezufajegezonanojo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://uploads.strikinglycdn.com/files/64f15e30-085d-4fd0-bf2c-d05662cdf274/fusukupoxanus.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://uploads.strikinglycdn.com/files/1a665875-486d-46a0-ab79-4af057a0d2e8/how_to_make_your_own_copy_and_paste_symbol.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://kopolug.myartsonline.com/wevumapugepefenipuwafugu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://s3.amazonaws.com/xarojapi/14971913156.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_off000112ce.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x112CE 5360 bytes
SHA-256: fc7f34671d3cbf14bf8f6fbeba602f7aaba983753c404f03313a70925324be6b
font_01_sfnt_off0001252b.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x1252B 10228 bytes
SHA-256: 539c058faaba4fff4c130adddf876b767e7b8d3e098511b186975f9417b5847a