Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 024292e646c778f3…

MALICIOUS

PDF

70.2 KB Created: 2020-11-14 18:00:42 +02:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7) First seen: 2021-10-07
MD5: b709d2302ee3be153184662e019cff21 SHA-1: c59f55b35a72fbf198c5bcf65320b264819e0de5 SHA-256: 024292e646c778f3d02264b85afcacc0c436056a805078d8687699c756583460
204 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

This PDF file was flagged by a machine learning classifier and ClamAV as malicious, specifically as a phishing trojan. Heuristics indicate it contains malicious redirector links and is part of a link farm on disposable hosting. The document body, though heavily obfuscated, contains text fragments suggesting a lure related to 'fish fry defiance ohio', which, combined with the 'SE_CALLBACK_LURE' heuristic, points to a callback phishing or tech-support scam. No scripts were extracted, but the presence of malicious URLs suggests the document is designed to redirect users to harmful content.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9998

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
  • PDF links to known malicious redirector infrastructure critical PDF_MALICIOUS_REDIRECTOR_LINK
    PDF contains a clickable URI to redirector infrastructure used by a known malicious PDF SEO/adware delivery campaign. These documents typically rely on user interaction and redirect chains rather than a PDF parser vulnerability.
  • 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.
  • Callback phishing phone lure medium SE_CALLBACK_LURE
    Document asks the user to call a phone number in billing, refund, subscription, fraud, or security context — consistent with callback phishing or tech-support scam patterns. Suppressed for legitimate-issuer (IRS/gov/official-form) documents that carry no urgency or charge/dispute escalation.
  • 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://ggtraff.ru/123?utm_term=k+of+c+fish+fry+defiance+ohio In PDF document text
    • https://dimaxafazeza.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/1/4/131453031/kezedivalo-bolumukejufufik.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn-cms.f-static.net/uploads/4369150/normal_5f8ab09c117f5.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://jowovodepavilim.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/4/6/134651336/nikarit_jijolexasojuxe_fizeli.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn-cms.f-static.net/uploads/4450724/normal_5fa307954ab73.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://digufotunu.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/4/2/134266503/99f43556ec5607.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn-cms.f-static.net/uploads/4375206/normal_5f8a2d1a7138e.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://gekeforoka.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/1/4/131438206/tokatid_zexanoni_lidoxodegig.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://folemazilepi.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/1/1/131164248/1713188.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn-cms.f-static.net/uploads/4393361/normal_5fab30a243284.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn-cms.f-static.net/uploads/4404757/normal_5faddadcc9ee5.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://naxazutip.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/4/6/134610322/gowutumomotifafuxubi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://gilepinewuje.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/4/0/134096317/7fd55.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn-cms.f-static.net/uploads/4415073/normal_5fa0c744a1de2.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn-cms.f-static.net/uploads/4369905/normal_5f88844fd3ba7.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/285da06c-ea99-400a-b38f-d523ca684468/zofibopiluzojikobo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://uploads.strikinglycdn.com/files/3a281da8-8973-45ba-b1d7-bbef102be8f1/67332649089.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://uploads.strikinglycdn.com/files/df9fa1ce-a0a4-4724-a395-c68dab090eee/19527180755.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_off0000d3a7.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xD3A7 5148 bytes
SHA-256: c0c0b403551ad2cc0d41944ab09542a90c9f4124ae2c52f162a5d42076cbbc9f
font_01_sfnt_off0000e539.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xE539 11500 bytes
SHA-256: fb4823a86a4362018b3f09329df7b107b5f23e97c64eb443edd7a27d17d6b8cf