Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 8b0917386eea2e70…

MALICIOUS

PDF

82.7 KB Created: 2021-03-13 22:48:01 +02:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7) First seen: 2021-06-17
MD5: ee2c4e4aa3f17ea4886539131b02b659 SHA-1: ec06b7bd9c6695619846defe979c21b5d7c7466b SHA-256: 8b0917386eea2e70f81b2efa79e5167311a5e0ff4274ffef4a1cc5e3df2f9a6f
186 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

This PDF file was flagged as malicious by both ML classifiers and ClamAV, indicating a high likelihood of malicious intent. It contains numerous external links, with a significant portion pointing to disposable hosting, suggesting a link farm or SEO spam operation. The primary URL, 'https://dugedepap.ru/wix?keyword=classifying+triangles+worksheet', is likely part of this scheme. While no scripts were explicitly extracted, the PDF structure and heuristic firings strongly suggest it's designed to redirect users to potentially harmful content.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9950

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/wix?keyword=classifying+triangles+worksheet PDF link annotation
    • https://static.s123-cdn-static.com/uploads/4414335/normal_6004f86987ab0.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.sqhk.co/vanewano/flhgMhX/remixes_of_songs_copyrighted.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.sqhk.co/woselukafo/egf9Vgd/aaron_jones_fantasy_football_team_names.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.sqhk.co/saligoliti/iVRsOha/chithari_therikkunna_chinthakalil_video_song.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn-cms.f-static.net/uploads/4410013/normal_602835541dd0c.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://static.s123-cdn-static.com/uploads/4478131/normal_6007f2d1622f6.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn-cms.f-static.net/uploads/4481847/normal_5fe9f3ef2f1db.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.sqhk.co/xudekutof/i2Ugdhp/27476704984.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.sqhk.co/tinolefowi/aF9fiep/pivugibobe.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/95f0c698-3104-45c5-b547-71c0af7c2707/us_stock_markets_open_time.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://lazevemu.epizy.com/siniregopisotakovusi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://uploads.strikinglycdn.com/files/f3b3fd8c-5370-4a1d-b00a-cdb3ea55bed8/char_broil_grill_wont_start.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://uploads.strikinglycdn.com/files/1c4cd56a-b83e-4e8d-b45f-560e3b50866b/lapuwedarodegoki.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://e9b66cc5-9289-431c-8f17-6739e1cd2d88.filesusr.com/ugd/c8f33b_92dad2d8a00548b88df626013abfade5.pdf?index=trueIn PDF document text
    • http://kavisawadafo.epizy.com/61395327950.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://uploads.strikinglycdn.com/files/52ab35fd-e793-4c0e-b6dc-7191ade6fe35/zunesuruzisosojisoz.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://uploads.strikinglycdn.com/files/da0ffb7d-86d5-4158-9707-0383596a2e13/lakshmi_nrusimha_karavalamba_stotram_english_lyrics.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://uploads.strikinglycdn.com/files/b71d4b59-4a21-4e96-8a0f-e085936d223c/zojofuv.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://21c505bb-01ca-4817-a549-4ed1ebba5040.filesusr.com/ugd/7d7105_062a306649194e698367bd0624279e67.pdf?index=trueIn PDF document text
    • http://rigirulame.epizy.com/interview_questions_for_mechanical_engineering_with_answers.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://zepibugab.rf.gd/quarterly_exam_answer_key_2019_english.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://1e16da7b-5b4f-4122-a3c4-5c88c9d97cf7.filesusr.com/ugd/83f04e_66da027260aa4d51b4333e771806919a.pdf?index=trueIn PDF document text
    • https://506dbbd1-d4b3-44b1-a4c9-6b5d0cab6a23.filesusr.com/ugd/c75f60_a7f7bba727214379ac9dea89e4f275a2.pdf?index=trueIn PDF document text
    • http://kepisuv.epizy.com/51298567414.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://uploads.strikinglycdn.com/files/0db10996-d69b-44f2-af4e-ecf0859de582/45696961469.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://d0aee4dd-c5bf-4c29-adcf-3aa844f59ef3.filesusr.com/ugd/193d13_72e12d103ea94e3da6e3f1caa9c32577.pdf?index=trueIn PDF document text
    • https://uploads.strikinglycdn.com/files/597a1a6c-ceb6-4f34-b3a7-3c14785b09de/91252659937.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://uploads.strikinglycdn.com/files/17b6c6b3-ee62-4c30-87b2-123c42efb044/how_many_ounces_in_a_small_cup_of_dunkin_donuts_coffee.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 3

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
font_00_sfnt_off0000e793.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xE793 5192 bytes
SHA-256: dd8d19e78501b660e05291a1b97e67166839073a7745db656d5843105e6c9c9b
font_01_sfnt_off0000f952.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF952 10568 bytes
SHA-256: 2249001be48b22da96f71c7a0e0712adf6360c2628ee0d1586dd235964b77e32
font_02_sfnt_off00011da1.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x11DA1 18536 bytes
SHA-256: b321e48bea0ba1bc2c810bfd5806c342779f0d101a192a11dc2f553623823a93