Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 6737af5fea851127…

MALICIOUS

PDF

79.2 KB Created: 2021-05-08 17:59:38 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7) First seen: 2021-08-20
MD5: 4ac15bf8beca80a8fc84622af8365d33 SHA-1: 7ba448a207e594afbb3f3e088d262dda9461ed6b SHA-256: 6737af5fea8511270bcd88dfbfd2db236b3d64fd26619798d08a363ecf78a0a7
196 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF contains numerous external links, many of which point to an SEO redirector disguised as a free download. The primary malicious URL identified is 'https://dugedepap.ru/strik?utm_term=teaching+quality+standard+2020', which is likely a phishing page. The PDF structure and heuristic firings strongly indicate a phishing campaign, with ClamAV also identifying it as 'Pdf.Phishing.Trojan'. No scripts were extracted, but the PDF's nature suggests it's part of a spearphishing attachment campaign.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9994

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=teaching+quality+standard+2020 PDF link annotation
    • https://cdn.sqhk.co/pefemezized/gDagjcV/99224333394.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.sqhk.co/xamitarerivu/Ijdcifw/new_english_dj_song_audio_bhojpuri.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.sqhk.co/mepetiruzi/fy3rUhh/archery_games_shooting_balloons.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn-cms.f-static.net/uploads/4382949/normal_6056e1f863699.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.sqhk.co/rurufimibiwe/Mjbidji/98413154827.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn-cms.f-static.net/uploads/4405903/normal_5fe78fdd9d627.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.sqhk.co/gabebutiz/TRfiap0/takuzadasemuvewab.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/8605e6cf-e14e-485e-bbbc-7c157ff4f67c/balancing_chemical_equations_worksheet_key.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://uploads.strikinglycdn.com/files/2f4c371c-bb22-4c8a-9bc4-5e0c9301eb4e/37630284469.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://uploads.strikinglycdn.com/files/01d5e471-4275-47d2-9a21-a88d07e142d8/what_did_the_second_estate_do_in_the_french_revolution.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://uploads.strikinglycdn.com/files/ff132316-e4bc-49e1-afa8-c4423a4b2f37/turugugex.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://uploads.strikinglycdn.com/files/cdbf91b9-d971-4cfa-9346-d9afc2f3882f/nixurowome.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://uploads.strikinglycdn.com/files/699f1d7c-cd3e-4e3a-b048-c7c435c18203/61174192033.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://uploads.strikinglycdn.com/files/4bcb2e7e-0faf-4c88-8001-18dbfed6c339/mitsubishi_mr_slim_troubleshooting_p8.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://uploads.strikinglycdn.com/files/578bbe8e-03b8-4aa9-90f7-ad8ccb62ebd1/good_basketball_drills_for_3rd_and_4th_graders.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://128fc002-9ed4-4a8f-9a6b-83b43563a9ed.filesusr.com/ugd/6812d7_84a4af2ebbdb41f0acf1fe0263cc3fb9.pdf?index=trueIn PDF document text
    • https://uploads.strikinglycdn.com/files/09e47591-f2a5-45c5-a458-9019a9fb6dfb/formato_de_carta_gantt_simple.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://uploads.strikinglycdn.com/files/f209fc58-1780-4400-8dcb-05210dbd29f4/jukamazokeso.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://37bcb4aa-7747-4ff6-a352-0e22bf983c21.filesusr.com/ugd/4393d3_1c82e718605046898d71cdd36ddb8117.pdf?index=trueIn PDF document text
    • https://67536400-2f23-40e2-9d3a-36ae3f4dfb8c.filesusr.com/ugd/5312ea_7b18ad0c67ff4233a7163abd4cee3d94.pdf?index=trueIn PDF document text
    • https://uploads.strikinglycdn.com/files/87fd3126-3ff8-42ae-b00a-73af713fd48b/programa_de_estudios_2011_secundaria_espaol_segundo_grado.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://uploads.strikinglycdn.com/files/57c85559-68f5-427f-bd11-40a810617985/what_song_has_the_most_spotify_streams.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://uploads.strikinglycdn.com/files/7932b95f-b10c-4347-b29b-e759e5d24868/noun_worksheet_for_class_1.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_off0000f6f4.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF6F4 5652 bytes
SHA-256: f9892db0281ed7b16d69b0c41f8b3074211a78c556ad8f0a22816bb14fdf356e
font_01_sfnt_off00010a24.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x10A24 11096 bytes
SHA-256: f46fdda89bdf2708ee1a2ae666e3a2e5f1cb4e1dd350b98c8571036191533b8c