Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 294a81fb018d5ff6…

MALICIOUS

PDF

79.4 KB Created: 2021-03-27 18:46:06 +02:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7) First seen: 2021-11-21
MD5: 5297a877aabd42fbaf8d915d67cad4d1 SHA-1: e95aa17dd64e6c0f03a8ae4504dbff3531733ddb SHA-256: 294a81fb018d5ff64d28e5b0768502bccfd286412aab27df819321983b3da8b6
186 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment T1203 Exploitation for Client Execution

The PDF file contains a large number of external links, identified as a link farm, with many pointing to disposable hosting. The primary URL, 'https://dugedepap.ru/strik?utm_term=the+lord+of+the+rings+3+in+telugu', suggests a lure related to movie content, likely to trick users into clicking through to a malicious site. The ClamAV detection and ML classifier strongly indicate malicious intent, likely for phishing or malware distribution.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9997

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://dugedepap.ru/strik?utm_term=the+lord+of+the+rings+3+in+telugu PDF link annotation
    • https://biwakegexenulu.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/4/4/134437141/7698537.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn-cms.f-static.net/uploads/4373788/normal_6058b57037b9f.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn-cms.f-static.net/uploads/4485010/normal_603db387098d1.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://static.s123-cdn-static.com/uploads/4480755/normal_60017ee1b332a.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://gazufasuro.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/4/4/134482956/dinukalolaki_raxuromeluwufa.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://lupoxever.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/1/4/131413766/7408363.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.sqhk.co/kodivitedi/ghrFyji/battery_daddy_case_review.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn-cms.f-static.net/uploads/4465702/normal_603c28197447d.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.sqhk.co/maxegugej/mje4hi8/top_sports_boarding_schools_uk.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://jerusofiv.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/0/9/130969981/xunif.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn-cms.f-static.net/uploads/4416664/normal_605982ecc19e2.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.sqhk.co/xejokenu/7hiiaes/catriona_gray_question_and_answer_portion.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn-cms.f-static.net/uploads/4449779/normal_60164ff52a6a8.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://static.s123-cdn-static.com/uploads/4403822/normal_5fcc9135dbfa6.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.sqhk.co/limiwebu/ddfhabe/massachusetts_police_officer_medical_exam.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn-cms.f-static.net/uploads/4451027/normal_604ebcbf689b9.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn-cms.f-static.net/uploads/4468531/normal_6033381383aee.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn-cms.f-static.net/uploads/4369149/normal_6038f61269230.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn-cms.f-static.net/uploads/4451545/normal_5fe8ef7953a88.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/In PDF document text
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/typedesigners.htmlIn PDF document text
    • https://680e7e7f-99bb-4309-8a01-ecc910dc7690.filesusr.com/ugd/717a42_4010e27693e242c797796fd2ed02b5dd.pdf?index=trueIn PDF document text
    • https://b64dd490-e5b9-492f-89ff-e398ecee904c.filesusr.com/ugd/5926b4_4963c6333335494892738f8b60e094a4.pdf?index=trueIn 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_off0000f87a.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF87A 5072 bytes
SHA-256: 8f092a23f978ea6b9582ab4150943ac57d913e350a5d7d21d50a0ebd4bfae966
font_01_sfnt_off000109c1.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x109C1 10944 bytes
SHA-256: 7cf52247872a642a5a3ae6180f5e62c9b3dc3c0dee232750672ed283e01fd9a6