Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 b8c090908803ea26…

MALICIOUS

PDF

69.6 KB Created: 2021-03-10 01:52:17 +02:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7) First seen: 2021-08-25
MD5: dc3cc7fbe4dcc392a1ebc965c6621a0b SHA-1: 2116697c7554c233360aad466d5c977e29dc0a70 SHA-256: b8c090908803ea2653114482d4e26fdf66a3823103235da9e1cc7c2fc515f451
154 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

The PDF file contains a large number of external links, many of which point to disposable domains, indicating a link farm or SEO manipulation tactic. The ClamAV detection and the presence of suspicious URLs like 'http://characduwe.space/xutedukerufahkp9x.pdf' suggest malicious intent, possibly to redirect users to phishing sites or download further malware. No scripts were extracted, but the PDF structure itself is indicative of a malicious lure.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier suspicious score 0.4770

Heuristics 5

  • 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
  • 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/aws?utm_term=what+are+the+elements+of+writing+an+introduction PDF link annotation
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