Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 9ae4c292d8c435a2…

MALICIOUS

PDF

73.2 KB Created: 2021-03-08 20:36:21 +02:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7) First seen: 2021-08-25
MD5: fcac6b4940d5119fecee5e658ef3a6b5 SHA-1: b15d64c892dcca5e99463dae8ebb2a185fae5b52 SHA-256: 9ae4c292d8c435a2da2524b2146a91a11fa9557ca2773a3fc1e5bb5b18d543f7
184 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF contains embedded links pointing to known malicious redirector infrastructure, specifically 'crophysi.ru'. The document body, though heavily obfuscated, appears to contain keywords related to educational topics, suggesting a lure. The presence of multiple links to disposable hosting and a high ML classifier score further indicate malicious intent, likely for phishing or malware distribution.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9997

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
  • 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.
  • 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://crophysi.ru/award?keyword=arithmetic+mean+median+mode+pdf In PDF document text
    • https://cdn-cms.f-static.net/uploads/4378160/normal_5fd14d8962baf.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://degakak.sportsontheweb.net/bill_nye_the_science_guy_rocks_and_soil_answer_key.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn-cms.f-static.net/uploads/4374519/normal_60366099da0d6.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn-cms.f-static.net/uploads/4500669/normal_6044dab33093f.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://tixesikixux.mygamesonline.org/38739274518.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn-cms.f-static.net/uploads/4418575/normal_6009aea275914.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn-cms.f-static.net/uploads/4365655/normal_6021bece7aca6.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn-cms.f-static.net/uploads/4471514/normal_601888c428cd3.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/d04deb08-274b-47d0-86e7-d006d9c88bf0/le_petit_prince_english_audio.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://uploads.strikinglycdn.com/files/3c670ef8-33d0-4762-b92b-dd390f88ea20/55568869648.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://uploads.strikinglycdn.com/files/8144e596-2823-4830-99a3-3aa5649b001e/cuales_son_los_tipos_de_funcionarios_publicos_en_venezuela.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://uploads.strikinglycdn.com/files/93294d48-1eea-4374-bfc3-787499028ec7/tagalekujubajufanizadapar.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://uploads.strikinglycdn.com/files/2951719e-5af3-4b9a-a619-ec5825f4bd93/nombres_de_nios_que_estan_en_la_biblia.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://uploads.strikinglycdn.com/files/5b3a709e-493d-443b-bf3b-e9c5906d62d6/child_care_plan_template_uk.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://uploads.strikinglycdn.com/files/6ca85849-39d4-4285-9238-08650de097b4/aa_step_12_explained.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://tofilijewok.atwebpages.com/93276068189.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://polabufu.myartsonline.com/writing_and_graphing_inequalities_worksheet_6th_grade.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://keregimuw.onlinewebshop.net/35679097300.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://uploads.strikinglycdn.com/files/aa34a38a-a258-4d7e-9527-24f25344e41f/is_shiro_dead_k.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://nukilaba.myartsonline.com/mirilujipijod.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://uploads.strikinglycdn.com/files/14200a92-74e4-47a8-a1b0-de268d7a8337/jazizuxilivufodoburek.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_off0000e0f2.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xE0F2 5176 bytes
SHA-256: f66fe25535541988ebdf0def295d9afc9e3c4af4a30293e7dae10df8669f1928
font_01_sfnt_off0000f266.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF266 10944 bytes
SHA-256: 229c923d4ec349ef245193c00f6a1574e8976d33df454fdc47b06e7c4cddcd2e