Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 02b9a9391d281947…

MALICIOUS

PDF

71.3 KB Created: 2021-03-20 18:29:51 +02:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7) First seen: 2021-06-17
MD5: cff718c90acf7604828b9dc1515ebd19 SHA-1: 230e010ba3c74dee6af28c1dcbd2e446d3290a6a SHA-256: 02b9a9391d2819474e0f85cd65c9c3bf2e729b4b4b69b623e9f974d8b037b5a3
244 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF file contains numerous embedded links, many of which point to disposable hosting or known malicious redirectors, indicating a link farm or phishing attempt. The ML classifier and ClamAV detection strongly suggest malicious intent, likely related to phishing or malware distribution. Although no scripts were explicitly extracted, the PDF structure and embedded links are indicative of an attempt to redirect users to malicious content.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9991

Heuristics 6

  • ClamAV: Pdf.Phishing.Trojan-d2528dad23a95d95-d2528dad23a95d95-10044376-0 critical CLAMAV_DETECTION
    ClamAV detected this file as malware: Pdf.Phishing.Trojan-d2528dad23a95d95-d2528dad23a95d95-10044376-0
  • 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 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.
  • 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://dafemum.ru/wix?keyword=estimating+fractions+worksheet+with+answers In PDF document text
    • https://cdn-cms.f-static.net/uploads/4487647/normal_604404ac21b4b.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn-cms.f-static.net/uploads/4426416/normal_602f36b9849e8.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn-cms.f-static.net/uploads/4466370/normal_5fe6bbc691cfd.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn-cms.f-static.net/uploads/4496402/normal_604e2673e398b.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn-cms.f-static.net/uploads/4481509/normal_60327bb897bd4.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn-cms.f-static.net/uploads/4452835/normal_604d013278d5a.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn-cms.f-static.net/uploads/4380072/normal_60551932b6b47.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn-cms.f-static.net/uploads/4449014/normal_604a9db48aad3.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://static.s123-cdn-static.com/uploads/4486775/normal_5fdd0b9c7e3a8.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://static.s123-cdn-static.com/uploads/4474448/normal_5fc7270bce1b6.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/In PDF document text
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/typedesigners.htmlIn PDF document text
    • https://254b3b0b-79dc-4992-827c-fd4bb3db3178.filesusr.com/ugd/f515ca_4cd76bd22bc94645978ec3109bb5d8da.pdf?index=trueIn PDF document text
    • https://s3.amazonaws.com/gawabog/kitanodomuzaxemujovewu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://4e33067b-0f13-4bed-bb9c-ea95f768fd7c.filesusr.com/ugd/23924c_3ff34d1fe85147dfbc2b3e4a7ac5ade2.pdf?index=trueIn PDF document text
    • https://527ed197-5826-4432-9c89-449afa9d705e.filesusr.com/ugd/65ef70_81a3e5888632428c9ba40a505dae5cbd.pdf?index=trueIn PDF document text
    • https://s3.amazonaws.com/dezajok/benaam_rishta_woh_ringtone.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://s3.amazonaws.com/bivanud/91166974536.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://1423d76f-a56f-4481-bf87-726e17039346.filesusr.com/ugd/14aee2_7972cd98568b401c82265ac83a2b02c3.pdf?index=trueIn PDF document text
    • https://uploads.strikinglycdn.com/files/f8857684-ee3e-4a0a-89ab-a302cb557918/millard_erickson_christian_theology_download.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://uploads.strikinglycdn.com/files/af663ee6-ce82-4d95-90d8-80be76f790fe/marcy_recumbent_exercise_bike_with_resistance_me-709_youtube.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://af6bd0e1-9fb2-4c52-b6e5-df6188d17e94.filesusr.com/ugd/771d18_963658a8921a45698e01c6c219478257.pdf?index=trueIn PDF document text
    • https://6d5fec37-5936-4ae8-8938-03a86e982f09.filesusr.com/ugd/d4da64_7b81d2298b404e0795921940507cea08.pdf?index=trueIn PDF document text
    • https://fb9345b8-40be-4608-a8ff-9c5427dba92f.filesusr.com/ugd/98d639_d7479d4ca3764898a82e92b7e297b7fe.pdf?index=trueIn PDF document text
    • https://9e77dbea-16d6-438e-9859-4a68c5388828.filesusr.com/ugd/3225da_6c9ba105cb6143cb92507e7647fa2db7.pdf?index=trueIn PDF document text
    • https://uploads.strikinglycdn.com/files/4d518516-70d9-4368-9517-c024b86a12e1/dell_optiplex_3010_memory_upgrade.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://7c9e9c40-2b96-4f88-8065-b5ff5e495659.filesusr.com/ugd/3bfcae_d9de0ca806e347b4bbcbbf5855e82795.pdf?index=trueIn 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_off0000d6f2.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xD6F2 5376 bytes
SHA-256: 6d78b471dee338e8a89b0ffcf9837362de1035c43e087cf40b3ddaf57439550c
font_01_sfnt_off0000e92c.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xE92C 10676 bytes
SHA-256: db9f6fbac3ff77d5dcbab8f0bffd6d99c788d1b43781051ad0e372da263aaa7a