Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 e180723e555d6cb7…

MALICIOUS

PDF

180.4 KB Created: 2021-03-30 22:45:38 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7) First seen: 2021-08-25
MD5: e9477338da273b9f68f6c2a0b9e98f80 SHA-1: d483ef698581cb29d0e0fdbc15ccc421baf481c1 SHA-256: e180723e555d6cb787c1c5ae667ec513131d834201c5433c6fdc086b35a34b71
126 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

This PDF was flagged by ClamAV as a phishing trojan and by an ML classifier as malicious. It contains numerous embedded URLs, many pointing to link farms and disposable hosting, suggesting a phishing or SEO manipulation scheme. The primary malicious URL identified is https://kuzutuzo.ru/wix?keyword=civics+unit+2+test+answers, which likely serves as a lure to a broader network of malicious content.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9993

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/wix?keyword=civics+unit+2+test+answers PDF link annotation
    • https://welajewovire.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/3/9/133999455/6313516.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://deriwofapavuz.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/4/3/134311795/tumumufogados_vigogubol_visokibukalano.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.sqhk.co/xufatirumina/jjqYlii/police_flashlight_taser_1101_price.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://venevivoxeda.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/1/8/131857756/bd6f0e009d4.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.sqhk.co/vipujitebiki/cthjjig/free_virus_scan_uninstall.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.sqhk.co/bigulikexupa/jdMZwQE/combat_shooting_games_online_free.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://tofudilasikota.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/0/9/130969343/penoxanogudaxulogi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/In PDF document text
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/typedesigners.htmlIn PDF document text
    • https://68420551-d949-41c4-975b-2ae86aa6d062.filesusr.com/ugd/09c3c7_0b70a3d736a14b21b3e828b17ede6e9f.pdf?index=trueIn PDF document text
    • https://cf176ec6-4820-456b-adf9-61e5f06c968f.filesusr.com/ugd/43d598_2539a9c560e0486e8740bef1110dae90.pdf?index=trueIn PDF document text
    • https://uploads.strikinglycdn.com/files/b3f9cde5-69b6-4cf0-bc7b-5c4e8ffe537f/38834464430.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://c63359c4-faa5-40af-ad11-254ddd3d100c.filesusr.com/ugd/838c33_439488daa1da4def9acaabb3a383f437.pdf?index=trueIn PDF document text
    • https://99516632-72ce-40f3-a9a1-a01c91361c65.filesusr.com/ugd/e42c35_eeb857c0c93a48be93d94c9a0603fa03.pdf?index=trueIn PDF document text
    • https://945b3f91-9c76-4178-be32-f0dab3cfe2c6.filesusr.com/ugd/8d5d69_2eacbbe554fb47e7811ac35f660af424.pdf?index=trueIn PDF document text
    • https://s3.amazonaws.com/dewazewokib/vulid.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://95043331-d9de-4498-ad98-35b8ac3ee23f.filesusr.com/ugd/5740b2_a168066e0bf14a4c8664a0c80c11b78a.pdf?index=trueIn PDF document text
    • https://c2bc7a71-cb21-434c-84f6-8d2fc09ed56d.filesusr.com/ugd/03ae60_b1f49b450bb0414182164fe62492ea38.pdf?index=trueIn PDF document text
    • https://uploads.strikinglycdn.com/files/7d71545d-67b5-472e-9c36-50eaebea0464/nomozokizuxapupuj.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://s3.amazonaws.com/veledabejufi/ancient_greek_alphabet_font.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://uploads.strikinglycdn.com/files/5116be5d-ca4f-476a-82b5-c722e9887dbb/42593466856.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
    • http://dejavu.sourceforge.netIn PDF document text
    • http://dejavu.sourceforge.net/wiki/index.php/LicenseIn PDF document text

Extracted artifacts 4

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
font_00_sfnt_off00010c6a.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x10C6A 122740 bytes
SHA-256: df44d19cbd2014f3ed5d17b4558e1cc16395ee3c208671595c7622782b4460c7
font_01_sfnt_off00027828.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x27828 4952 bytes
SHA-256: c5bf37ad17af7b9171dc830cdc8c89051cd9408fa6643aaeb85094437a23ddc5
font_02_sfnt_off00028925.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x28925 10916 bytes
SHA-256: ae77e98ee57a1f7933d28d3f905aecd1ddca35faec0ecccf00e897aa1aba1485
font_03_sfnt_off0002ae99.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x2AE99 16204 bytes
SHA-256: e93acd332f5893643511f4cefd38969ad5c744ad1b08842a788b6be7d277dd15