Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 a802182fbb2d5120…

MALICIOUS

PDF

78.2 KB Created: 2021-05-06 04:07:13 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7) First seen: 2021-07-07
MD5: c99d8cd70a668653c0c2a4748d43ab52 SHA-1: 496a3e777a15189d0ab82d59bcb6eae5ceca0902 SHA-256: a802182fbb2d5120d11a1e717a5bd0c1aa367f3111abf49c8bbfdbc016d6cf15
194 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

This PDF file was flagged by multiple heuristics as malicious, including a critical ClamAV detection and an ML classifier. It contains a large number of external links, many hosted on disposable domains, suggesting a link farm or SEO manipulation tactic. One of the embedded URLs, 'https://leonvi.ru/strik?utm_term=the+hobbit+2+full+movie+in+tamil+dubbed+hd+free+download', appears to be a lure for potentially malicious content. The presence of numerous external links and the critical detections indicate a high likelihood of malicious intent, possibly to redirect users to exploit kits or phishing sites.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9996

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://leonvi.ru/strik?utm_term=the+hobbit+2+full+movie+in+tamil+dubbed+hd+free+download PDF link annotation
    • https://viramerobudob.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/1/4/131483281/5231842.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.sqhk.co/woselukafo/gbfn8hg/ant_bait_gel_home_depot.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn-cms.f-static.net/uploads/4367927/normal_60671a1ce26d9.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://vorevowupi.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/4/6/134633589/puwojesunevusuj.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn-cms.f-static.net/uploads/4369659/normal_6025cf175d259.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.sqhk.co/gesafafo/idBgihc/55830129691.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://static.s123-cdn-static.com/uploads/4495387/normal_60002d9ad5083.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.sqhk.co/jogeguzotire/NidaLhf/bazomenabusoparog.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.sqhk.co/mujejadalale/rhajhih/50424193110.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.sqhk.co/butiluluvuk/jfcagja/9870278650.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://mibofadap.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/1/6/131637701/7413682.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://design-kvartira.info/mezalomofugobuwufamchm5u.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.sqhk.co/suwefememe/5hjgjfd/59543271546.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://static.s123-cdn-static.com/uploads/4446924/normal_600842eb5287d.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn-cms.f-static.net/uploads/4470535/normal_5fd78eba2ef5f.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.sqhk.co/kasavakujosi/YmKhaYU/zopuvep.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.sqhk.co/gixudokuzaj/bi5ggjW/waponofosagatanarevel.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn-cms.f-static.net/uploads/4476152/normal_602f70bf4d4ff.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://moneymaya.site/gudebigemuwitivowi0cul.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://boevoenlp.com/funny_gif_and_memesfr6zl.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://tosofeguwus.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/4/3/134321705/4523420.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn-cms.f-static.net/uploads/4425227/normal_60654a5580ce3.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/In PDF document text
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/typedesigners.htmlIn 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_off0000f380.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF380 5340 bytes
SHA-256: 3f65e3d85a0f083538eff669e92ba5945eecf2aaab7a90a0eecd1ce4d168c058
font_01_sfnt_off00010593.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x10593 10908 bytes
SHA-256: 93ab43aa8e4298a4d28f5f00b45fffafd08a4fca72684299f7cee80c66a0c3eb