Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 fa62753cc3cd0ace…

MALICIOUS

PDF

79.8 KB Created: 2021-03-23 15:48:01 +02:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7) First seen: 2021-11-21
MD5: e41b1b2e17bf8e8c918ba35e93cda4f6 SHA-1: e6ff620a79fd6d95ea891cdf86f7b21850b10f49 SHA-256: fa62753cc3cd0aceb87575862e6f9048b6fe7207d4394aa7f2ba1b744be0facf
126 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF file was flagged by ML classifiers and ClamAV as malicious, specifically as a phishing or trojan variant. It contains numerous embedded URLs, with at least one, https://kuzutuzo.ru/award?keyword=project+problem+statement+pdf, being directly linked to a heuristic firing indicating a link farm on disposable hosting. The document body, though heavily obfuscated, suggests a lure related to 'project problem statement pdf'. No scripts were extracted, but the presence of external URIs and the overall detection profile strongly suggest a phishing or malware distribution attempt.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9957

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=project+problem+statement+pdf PDF link annotation
    • https://cdn.sqhk.co/lepagesali/geCgjge/14052568624.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://qrettalq.online/deductive_reasoning_worksheet_with_answer_keyzkzoy.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://static.s123-cdn-static.com/uploads/4387412/normal_5feb60bff162e.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://zutumufedige.getenjoyment.net/biology_class_10_icse_book.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://straponartist.com/zewabu6msiv.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.sqhk.co/lebudawojafi/LjdEZhb/9617906103.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://static.s123-cdn-static.com/uploads/4449405/normal_60020caaefc93.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.sqhk.co/dodamewope/jXSMicl/purowo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://zaxegod.getenjoyment.net/2426301370.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://kazimibi.getenjoyment.net/how_to_connect_craftsman_garage_door_opener_to_internet.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn-cms.f-static.net/uploads/4492593/normal_6051fafdf145b.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://linavaluviriv.getenjoyment.net/45615832627.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.sqhk.co/vulasobifow/hcgdyij/vewetuguzuti.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.sqhk.co/dukapudubi/YhBVEzP/49327220114.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://com-copyrighit.com/wukurufbgun.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://static.s123-cdn-static.com/uploads/4468255/normal_5ff22d6c004b3.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/1f406f3a-85b3-480e-9f43-0dc8cbda4ced/47883492527.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://uploads.strikinglycdn.com/files/b35ff8ea-13e4-4d63-b1e5-252c96bcd133/44025532116.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://uploads.strikinglycdn.com/files/79513c76-e4ae-48e1-a68a-79959f34fc60/49567904748.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://uploads.strikinglycdn.com/files/9092664b-af8b-4938-84b9-46aa783c9122/what_is_the_salary_of_software_tester.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://uploads.strikinglycdn.com/files/ce1f234f-d345-4481-8781-b138bc91e288/bissell_turboclean_powerbrush_pet_carpet_cleaner_shampooer_2085.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://uploads.strikinglycdn.com/files/45429105-1a23-4128-ae47-07b8fcdce1fd/rojudobasan.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://uploads.strikinglycdn.com/files/46686653-33e8-4358-b3bc-b7ef76c83262/befaweradogopozepa.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://uploads.strikinglycdn.com/files/4dc45f63-9ec9-4f39-a1df-4bc463d7ad5b/82208081859.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://uploads.strikinglycdn.com/files/c00fb50e-559d-4775-8132-f93a705ddffc/steve_harvey_books_online.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://uploads.strikinglycdn.com/files/92e7b2f8-26ed-41a2-a09e-f000cada9529/can_you_connect_monitor_hdmi_to_usb.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://nosigegu.onlinewebshop.net/tovokerepes.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_off0000f828.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF828 5516 bytes
SHA-256: 5e4c63dea3d4c9ec5461831a17c47c3649b50dd8ffcd75406fa4229fef3e4e84
font_01_sfnt_off00010acd.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x10ACD 11416 bytes
SHA-256: abff189207a2f4ea925cdfe5f63630ef196c80b81721c5e3dda78b5e7612b59d