Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 a40839c10976cfc2…

MALICIOUS

PDF

80.2 KB Created: 2021-03-30 02:43:58 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7) First seen: 2021-09-27
MD5: 4456c4a41ecabded97ee021e5e778f17 SHA-1: 53c9008b1573a39834cb70223969eac6809a02fa SHA-256: a40839c10976cfc218921ac43c740c8448a6e3c00459996b372e2d7a437363db
186 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF contains numerous external links, a common tactic for SEO spam or phishing campaigns. The heuristic 'PDF_SEO_LINK_FARM' and the presence of many URLs, including one pointing to 'kuzutuzo.ru', strongly suggest a malicious intent to redirect users. ClamAV detection as 'Pdf.Phishing.Trojan' further supports this assessment.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9993

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/wix?keyword=chapter+13+psychological+disorders+worksheet+answers PDF link annotation
    • https://cdn.sqhk.co/nazamesuwute/dhe4ihS/xebefusaxomekegewiwiziz.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://sutovuwoti.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/0/9/130968995/2419178.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://static.s123-cdn-static.com/uploads/4424682/normal_5feba8ef92925.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.sqhk.co/xuzuvazol/IC5tMhj/xodukiduxotusazotugoxem.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.sqhk.co/satovepato/Xibii7d/texebumexanibupubukijasod.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.sqhk.co/tilesoxeg/ibifjhZ/pokemon_platinum_eevee_breeding_guide.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://jivixetikuzi.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/4/7/134745571/3a04b954b3c5441.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.sqhk.co/sepufaziru/di2icie/space_travel_to_mars_youtube.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn-cms.f-static.net/uploads/4384039/normal_5fe9f0613fb94.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn-cms.f-static.net/uploads/4481397/normal_6031df5dbb76f.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://static.s123-cdn-static.com/uploads/4370767/normal_5ffdca02e1594.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://kivijakesav.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/2/7/132740669/73f01bdc.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/In PDF document text
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/typedesigners.htmlIn PDF document text
    • https://76c9fb28-c10e-4950-85be-37de24a2ede8.filesusr.com/ugd/fa32a6_1e292d4da53a4fa6b7ba08e78af2e696.pdf?index=trueIn PDF document text
    • https://89d37d93-eaf9-4fc7-8d5e-07438b8f18e7.filesusr.com/ugd/e80f4c_1cd3191c9a1846088eedc8c0984759a8.pdf?index=trueIn PDF document text
    • https://uploads.strikinglycdn.com/files/1ffed811-d766-41e4-b44f-42e5b1cf3820/quote_from_sun_tzu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://uploads.strikinglycdn.com/files/667c69d0-e3ef-4167-9620-ebd62b369cd1/barriers_to_effective_communication_definition_and_examples.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://uploads.strikinglycdn.com/files/789b8974-811c-47e7-935f-425b8a866426/kuvidikosujupewitap.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://uploads.strikinglycdn.com/files/0857d724-723c-48c3-89bd-9ec92de5b7d9/ranixifewokawalarilivibew.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://571cbd0a-ba82-408d-be6d-2df53a8fcfe5.filesusr.com/ugd/02af14_780fe755fbd9491a90325a2d36055858.pdf?index=trueIn PDF document text
    • https://a121017b-3fb3-450c-9156-48dd71a9bf80.filesusr.com/ugd/07625c_6a56afcd5b5a4e9fb14898af96dd0e3e.pdf?index=trueIn PDF document text
    • https://uploads.strikinglycdn.com/files/60dc460e-9b87-426b-bb25-cab60fcc2451/the_scarlet_pimpernel_musical_full.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://fb075467-9d00-46c6-93ac-2b777f5e584b.filesusr.com/ugd/8bcd66_e86fdf58d2004ccbb8c752c5e8e028c7.pdf?index=trueIn PDF document text
    • https://uploads.strikinglycdn.com/files/ee5f2c30-2b2f-416c-a02b-9a635ad3cbab/jitakuliterurumuwiruve.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://uploads.strikinglycdn.com/files/2f014f1e-8e51-45f8-819a-10bce8ee08e1/12489847089.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://uploads.strikinglycdn.com/files/620d612d-f765-4b26-ada2-b0bf8513656c/how_to_open_a_bunker_hill_digital_floor_safe.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_off0000f8de.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF8DE 5712 bytes
SHA-256: db49175f1b1f52e0e961b0f3179c49a5275212ae1f0c630313990ab9687b5530
font_01_sfnt_off00010c67.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x10C67 10620 bytes
SHA-256: e4aa8e5016d68d8c01b52b5ac3dcea784c09a7d1a22f3c5ab62db5a77cced507