Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 8c05e65532c5db05…

MALICIOUS

PDF

78.6 KB Created: 2021-04-16 17:34:14 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7) First seen: 2021-11-25
MD5: d3208fa7a1abe9ba049a2bf215e82994 SHA-1: 5dd1fdd89faef086020ac536b58ed10b0935c5b8 SHA-256: 8c05e65532c5db051ba13a117085b504f0baf8ffc814d14c9e67529bc4bb2532
194 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

This PDF file was detected as malicious by ClamAV and an ML classifier, indicating a high likelihood of malicious intent. It contains a large number of external links, many hosted on disposable domains, suggesting a link farm designed to redirect users to potentially harmful content. The document body, though heavily obfuscated, contains a lure related to 'industrial revolution answers', likely a pretext to encourage clicks on the embedded malicious URLs.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9998

Heuristics 7

  • 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.
  • Visual download / call-to-action button lure low SE_DOWNLOAD_BUTTON
    Document contains a call-to-action phrase ('Click here to download', 'Download Now', etc.) — low-signal unless other findings point to a malicious workflow
  • 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=dbq+12+the+industrial+revolution+beginnings+answers PDF link annotation
    • http://lorozetuwivu.medianewsonline.com/vozavedumor.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://reduslimitalia-official.site/70579647044ks3p1.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.sqhk.co/rudolikube/3hjbkgh/1063918068.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.sqhk.co/nenafodud/D8gljbt/21319838724.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://wulurag.mygamesonline.org/esl_business_vocabulary.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://tuvaxijilitug.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/4/6/134668501/goludavuxogapa.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://dotixomovi.sportsontheweb.net/56721340407.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.sqhk.co/tuturuno/yjfjahb/alto_saxophone_solo_sheet_music.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://detonicinitalia.website/victoria_day_2021_bcm56qy.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://teribupugabi.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/4/8/134852699/tiwafemipikofo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.sqhk.co/bugolajoxodu/G0tvgja/tomb_run_2020.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/3c292cef-5a71-43a4-ad7e-ecd0805d848c/ejercicios_resueltos_de_resolucion_de_triangulos_oblicuangulos.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://uploads.strikinglycdn.com/files/ccb6c04a-0e9a-4e0e-8e4c-49b8f0e72ad2/54298157952.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://uploads.strikinglycdn.com/files/4eed1d60-6f23-4f2e-9da6-565b99e60f0e/77502805550.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://uploads.strikinglycdn.com/files/809330f3-19c7-4703-9110-fcc6757181e8/romurezu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://uploads.strikinglycdn.com/files/4f8b8438-0965-4477-9cf2-90a25512ca26/amazon_alexa_show_user_guide.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://uploads.strikinglycdn.com/files/8cbc390c-2e52-4dc6-a47e-bfb147346c7e/95022811555.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://uploads.strikinglycdn.com/files/95d61323-8dd5-4f3b-a591-213a6ef7cdde/is_taking_the_fe_exam_worth_it.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://tajiroxajesolut.atwebpages.com/lujafofeduka.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_off0000f181.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF181 5688 bytes
SHA-256: 3c5542cc2b15776e141979ce2366ac2b41c41479ea4c22ed758e9b10c03dbdc7
font_01_sfnt_off000104e8.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x104E8 11236 bytes
SHA-256: 2cdd587f12360d61b9cf55ebb1e106a8aa2719114a9bcd63785b1065f0a2af1f