Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 4c72c943641317a8…

MALICIOUS

PDF

84.1 KB Created: 2021-05-20 02:24:45 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7) First seen: 2021-08-20
MD5: 34df6f4e0292b34fe43e5906ff883e5d SHA-1: cf6c92e3f3aa9f6ed77b0a9be1ee94b074caafa0 SHA-256: 4c72c943641317a819e463359af509a6179e1a9f8ce95b4606f064e328e899a0
196 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF contains a large number of external links, many of which point to SEO-optimized content, suggesting a link farm or phishing attempt. The primary malicious URL identified is https://dugedepap.ru/strik?utm_term=what+is+an+hr+audit, which is flagged as a redirector for free-download phishing. While no scripts were explicitly extracted, the PDF structure and heuristic firings strongly indicate malicious intent, likely related to phishing or malware distribution.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9967

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.
  • Image lure linking to an SEO redirector (free-download phishing) high PDF_SEO_UTM_REDIRECTOR_LINK
    PDF embeds an image with little or no body text and a clickable link to a multi-word utm_term / FeedBurner-proxied SEO redirector — the 'free ebook / solution-manual / document download' phishing family that ranks for natural-language search queries and routes the user into a payload/redirect chain. The PDF carries no exploit; the risk is the linked destination. Flagged structurally (image lure + SEO redirector) so it does not depend on a ClamAV/ML signature, and regardless of how many filler text pages the lure carries.
  • 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=what+is+an+hr+audit PDF link annotation
    • https://rofaxebawo.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/4/7/134750080/2316531.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://static.s123-cdn-static.com/uploads/4502336/normal_5fdf5dfec9377.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://static.s123-cdn-static.com/uploads/4375514/normal_5fe560e1bd407.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn-cms.f-static.net/uploads/4501045/normal_603a89fe79334.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://rixilokif.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/4/1/134109141/wolenenufunoti.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://dowusezawidi.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/3/9/133997386/ketibokunovunil.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://static.s123-cdn-static.com/uploads/4501356/normal_5ff42881ac5f9.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn-cms.f-static.net/uploads/4365662/normal_5fdc288175fed.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://sakafafemowuva.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/4/6/134694971/topuxi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn-cms.f-static.net/uploads/4376879/normal_6065d2eb0bb75.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn-cms.f-static.net/uploads/4480591/normal_60413f6051a1e.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://static.s123-cdn-static.com/uploads/4379219/normal_5fe54596e20a2.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn-cms.f-static.net/uploads/4489732/normal_6022164a9552a.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://punujagenak.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/0/7/130775029/fogipolem.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/In PDF document text
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/typedesigners.htmlIn PDF document text
    • https://s3.amazonaws.com/fulazelof/teachers_day_paragraph_in_bengali.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://s3.amazonaws.com/wiwuxot/focusrite_scarlett_2i2_studio_2nd_gen_usb_audio_interface_and_recording_bundle_with_pro_tools.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://s3.amazonaws.com/tokit/el_pollo_loco_brc_nutrition.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://s3.amazonaws.com/rawesaragegugar/32436865817.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://s3.amazonaws.com/vinejivunitego/guided_reading_level_bunnicula.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://s3.amazonaws.com/votawawo/brigandine_the_legend_of_forsena.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://s3.amazonaws.com/zewimu/73839462700.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://s3.amazonaws.com/dudurat/what_is_considered_an_anti_inflammatory_diet.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://s3.amazonaws.com/jajoxulabojaso/what_is_the_best_42_inch_zero_turn_mower.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://s3.amazonaws.com/xamapebonijos/24035630633.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://s3.amazonaws.com/xijalovelokolep/chick_fil_a_job_application.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://s3.amazonaws.com/zijivevip/596965793.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://s3.amazonaws.com/jarawaxanivu/jobsplus_malta_cv_template.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_off00010cfc.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x10CFC 4892 bytes
SHA-256: dcfb48eae75ece660616a8aed1a83128949951f6a327b56ae9c2cf16f828db20
font_01_sfnt_off00011da0.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x11DA0 11020 bytes
SHA-256: f68c760cfa16829cb8377cc18521d89241f52e551aba50caacfd9d9fe3e68e57